Holiday Sports At Bishop's Bridge
Bishop's Bridge celebrated the national birthday with an interesting day's sports. A team of athletes from a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
1,933 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 97
Serious Clash Shearers Stoned Train Derailed Brisbane
A serious disturbance threatens as a result of the attitude of striking shearers towards Sydney shearers who are being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toll of Death Motor Accidents
Statistics recently taken of the City of London and compared with those of 40 years ago, show that in those days of progress and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railways Mid-Summer Excursions
Country people are given opportunity for cheap railway travel in a aeries of excursion trains which will run during the second week of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REMANDED Railway Prosecution
Frank Grenfell was brought the West Maitland Police Court this afternoon, charged with having travelled in a train between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Freight for Railways
That the Railway Commissioners will probably be empowered to demand that business people and others give the railways the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Ship on Fire Appeal for Assistance. Vessel Manages to Come Ashore Sydney
A broadcast message reached Sydney this morning from the British motor ship, Enton, stating the vessel was on fire off the New Caledonian coast, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorist's Terrible End
Reginald Yappa died a dreadful death when a car overturned on the Torbanlea-Payable Road (Q.). Pinned by the nock by the door,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragic Motor Accident Man Killed, Spine Broken. Companion Pinned for Two Hours Beside Dead Body
Pinned under an overturned motor car for two hours, alongside the dead body of his friend who had been riding with him, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Less Railway Traffic
A statement issued by the Railway Department yesterday shows that, from January 24 to 26, inclusive, 6949 first class and 72,831 second-class…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Marketing Fruit by Aeroplane
The experiment last season of sending strawberries from Switzerland to England by aeroplane proved so successful that it is reported arrangements have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News in Brief Train Scaling
Frank Grenfell, aged 19, travelled between Singleton and West Maitland on a train without paying his fare. This little lapse cost him 10/,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Girl Hurt Hit by Motor Cycle NEWCASTLE
Running across Maitland-road, Islington, at 8.15 last night, Beryl McInnes, 12, of 122 Fern-street, Islington, was struck by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Monopoly of Motor Spirit
Home production of motor spirit is to be encouraged in Germany, a recent decree requiring petrol sold for motor vehicle use to contain 2½ per cent home distilled spirit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aerodrome Site
That the company is willing to cooperate in having the land for the aerodrome site alienated for that purpose, provided there is no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shearers Menaced Plan of Train Wreckers Fails
An attempt was made on Tuesday night to wreck a train carrying about 200 shearers from Sydney to various central western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Deviation Wanted Cessnock-Wollombi-Sydney Road. Big Movement Launched
A big movement is being launched in the Wollombi district with a view of getting a new deviation on the present Cessnock-Wollombi-Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mid-summer Railway Excursions
Country people are given opportunity for cheap, railway travel in a series of excursions trains which will run during the second week of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World
The N.R.M.A.'s branch at Orange has been withdrawn, and a District Depot appointed in its stead. Members who require service in this area should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Injuries Motor Cycle Skidded SINGLETON
Harold Sprouls, aged 20, a Barnardo boy, employed by F. J. Pankhurst, of Elderslie, met fatal injuries while riding a motor cycle…
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