Accidents Total Heavy Motor Toll SYDNEY
There wore 218 fatal motor accidents in the streets of the metropolitan area in 1930, and seven caused by trams…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
1,933 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 97
The Railways Political Control Likely
Some measure of political control of the railways is likely to be the outcome of the refusal of the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr Cleary) to release…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bus Burned Maitland Road Blaze Total Wreck
A series of loud reports as the back tyres of a burning bus burst on the hill near Four Mile Creek last night startled travellers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Premier Land Assumes Control of N.S.W. Railways Drastic Action Commissioners' Position May Be Rationed Sydney
The State Government has taken drastic action to secure the services of the Southern Area Commissioner (Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Money. How Shall it be Spent? Main and Minor Roads
The councils throughout the State have been circularised recently by the Shires' Association, Sydney, in an apparent effort to gather support for a…
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The Stroud Shire receives about £200 from the Federal Roads Grant in connection with unemployment. It was resolved to divide the amount…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Aerodrome Site Area May be Declared Special Lease
Reference was made at the Municipal Council meeting last the site which has the Civil Aviation Department as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Alienation Cessnock Aerodrome Site Colliery Company Will Co-operate
Cessnock Aero Club has received a letter from Mr. N. Clark, superintendent of Caledonian Collieries Ltd., intimating that his company is willing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maerannie Road Job Wore Subject to Critical Survey
Work is progressing on the Maerannie-road constructional job, although not without a certain amount of criticism, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →H.d.w.s. & S. Board. Walterback's Road
The H.D.W.S. & S. Committee reported having considered a letter from the Shire Clerk, Wallarobba Shire Council, advising, in reply to Board's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Echo of Maitland Road Smash. Collision Between Motor Car and Cycle Mishap That Resulted, in Two-Deaths. Car Driver Committed on Manslaughter Charge
The circumstances attending the tragic motor smash which occurred on Maitland Road, and in which Robert Brindle, aged 8, and William Main, 69, lost their lives, were inquired into by Deputy Coroner J.R. Scott, at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railways. Goode Incident
Some measure of political control of the railways is likely to be the outcome of the refusal of the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Cleary) to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Head Crushed In Motor Smash 30-Feet Fall Murwillumbal
William Boswell Locke was seriously injured last night when his car fell over the edge of Bent-streetm and somersaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Hated Motor
The Transport Trust in the meantime is carrying on its work of driving as much motor traffic as possible off the streets. Many of the comfortable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gipsy Woman's Death £430 Found in Motor Car
Following the death of Mrs Olga Toohey, or John, aged 47, at Apsley (Vic.), police have forwarded the contents of the woman's stomach to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drastic Action by Government Political Control of Railway Service. Commissioners May Be Rationed
Drastic action was taken by the Government on Wednesday to enable the Premier (Mr Lang) to secure the services of two railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck by Train Severe Injuries
Francis Connors, 77, believed to be a resident of Moss Vale, was seriously injured when struck by an electric train at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Train Crash 80 Japanese Dead TOKIO, Jan. 12
In the darkness early this morning, an express train from Shimonoseki to Tokio was derailed while crossing a bridge at Hiroshimaken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Hits Train Woman Killed Husband Vanishes Melbourne
Mrs. Alice Lee, 42 years of age, of South Melbourne, was killed when a motor car driven by her husband, Mr. John Lee, crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Crash Car and Train Woman Killed Melbourne
An unidentified woman was killed this morning when a motor car in which she was travelling, crashed into an electric…
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