Head On. Motor Cycle and Car Smash. Penrith
Garnet Williams, of Portland, a motor cyclist, was badly injured in a head-on collision with a motor car on the main Western road at Emu Plains…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
2,724 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 66 of 137
Two Railwaymen. Dismissed From the Service. Emu Plains Robbery
It was ascertained last week end that two railway employees who were on the Mudgee mail train on the night of April 8 when it was robbed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Rail and Motor Increased Powers for Commissioners Important to Graziers
As a result of legislation now going through the State Parliament those graziers who go on using motor transport in competition with the railways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia. "A Great Aerodrome." Miss Amy Johnson's Description
"Australia is a wonderful flying country. It is one great aerodrome," said Miss Amy Johnson, C.H.E., at a lunch[?]n tendered to her in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Danger of Tarred Roads
The Raymond Terrace branch submitted a motion to the quarterly meeting of the Lower Hunter and Gloucester District Council of the Primary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dance at Bishop's Bridge
A dance will he held at Bishop's Bridge on Saturday evening next, June 14, when old, new and novelty, dances will be conducted. The music…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Smash. N.Z. Sensation. Auckland
A sensational train derailment occurred near Whangarel, when several trucks and a carriage, crowded with passengers left the rails at a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Derailed in New Zealand Passengers Have Remarkable Escape. Sydney
A sensational derailment occurred near Whargarei (N.Z.); when several trucks, and a carriage crowded with passengers, left the rails in a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Through Window. Motor Wheel Breaks Loose. Cessnock
When a motor lorry was being driven by Alan Wilson, and owned by Mullen and Ring, butchers, along Main-street yesterday afternoon, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →48-Hour Week for N.S.W. Railways Proposed Conference Abandoned Queensland Full Court Upholds Judgment
The proposed conference between railway unions and the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr Cleary) to discuss the question of work. ing hours has been abandoned. When the Commissionerr some time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road at Improvements
Some of the roads are in a shocking state. The grader is working between Gungog Turn-off and Paterson and the work already done is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thrown From Train Italian Drugged and Robbed
A remarkable story was told by Loreto Carust, 36, an Italian, who was found lying injured by the side of the railway line near Home Hill (Q…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Giant Aeroplane to Carry Forty-three Passengers. Britain's Latest. London, June 11
A British passenger aeroplane, weighing, when fully loaded approximately 13 tons, and able to carry 43 passengers at 100 miles an hour is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Killed. Motor Cycle Strikes Tram
Herbert Richardson (19), electrician of Burwood, was killed instantly, and Ernest Smith, aged about 50, also of Burwood, who was riding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Threw Peppr. Attack on Railway Porter. Melbourne
While working in the booking office at Fawkner Station last night, a porter, Daniel O'Keefe, was attacked by a man who threw pepper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Order for Railway Coal. Lithgow
Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd., has received orders for coal for the Railway Department totalling 258,000 tons and it is anticipated work will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Collision
A Packard car, driven by Mr. Vivian C. Fletcher, and occupied by Mrs. M. P. Dangar and others, of Baroona, and a Chrysler car, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Approaches Unloaded Upon Wickham Council. Revocation to Be Requested Newcastle
When at a meeting of Wickham Council the Town Clerk reported that the approaches to Port Waratah railway station, formerly under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maintenance of Roads
A programme of maintenance work for the next six months has been drawn up by Mr. Shine, engineer of Kearsley Shire Council The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Karuah Road
Some time ago Port Stephens Shire promised to put that section of road between Karuah and the State. Highway in good order. At…
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