Motor Smashes Week-end List Many Injured
During the week-end there were numerous motor accidents, and many persons were injured. When a light car and a taxi-cab…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
2,121 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 107
Motorists' Exam. Conflicting Views
The suggestion of the N.R.M.A. by a Sydney medical man that all motorists should be medically examined for defective hearing and other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hints for Motorists Costs of Relacquering Cars Fighting Radiator Scale
It is sometimes difficult to account for the great discrepancy in the prices quoted for the relacquering of a car, as for vehicles of medium size…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car Runs Down Incline Woman Killed, Boy Hurt
Ada Doherty, aged 60, was killed, and Charles Edgar, aged 11, was injured, by a motor-car which ran down an incline in Elizabeth-street, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Model Aeroplane Club
Thirty- four lads of various ages assembled at the South Cessnock School to open the Cessnock branch of the Model Aeroplane Club…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Wanted to See Train Stop."
Inspector Pattinson said that on Friday night, July 8, two pieces of sleeper and a sapling had been found on the line. Next morning Sergeants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Industry. Lower Railway Freights Sought
A deputation of coalowners from the northern, western, and southern distriets asked the Premier (Mr. Stevens) for a permanent reduction in railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Smash Tram Driver Hurt Trapped in Cabin Sydney
William Glanville (42) a tram-driver, of Leichardts, received severe injuries this morning when he was trapped in the driving cabin of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Under Tram Man's Lucky "Escape SYDNEY
In .Oxford-st, Darilnghurst, last night the combined effort of almost 200 persons was required to release Newton Campbell, 45½ of Darley-road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOCHINVAR Agricultural Bureau Bridge Urged
The monthly meeting, of the Agricultural Bureau was held in the School of Arts on Monday. There was a large attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hikers on Main Roads Protest From N.r.m.a
The president of the National Roads and Motorists' Association (Mr J. C. Watson), commenting on Sunday's "hike," which embraced portions of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Wrecker Sleeper on Line Near Belmont Newcastle
While travelling to Belmont a train from Newcastle struck a sleeper which had been placed across the line…
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A passenger train struck a sleeper on the line near Belmount yesterday evening. The engine threw the obstruction clear, out the wheel guards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Services Improvements Needed Weekly Tickets
Alderman Clyde, Mayor of Morpeth, brought before a conference of Lower Hunter bodies, held in the Tarro shire Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to Editor Mystery Train (To the Editor)
Sir,—Would you kindly allow space in your paper to quote one instance why our railways do not pay. The committee for the popular…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Second Arrest Railwaymen Attacked NEWCASTLE
A second arrest was made late yesterday afternoon in connection with the alleged attack on two railway men at Islington on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s.a. Motor Taxes
The new increased motor taxes in the United States have been much criticised and resented. One motor trade journal states that the Bill is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farley Bridge
In a report dealing with the condition of Farley Bridge, situated on the old Rutherford-Cessnock road, near the railway overbridge, the engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stroud Road
Mrs. Bridget Bratfield, who died at her late residence, "Rosedale," Stroud Road, on Friday last, in her 88th year, was the relict of the Hate Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parachutist's Awful Death Gear Tangled in Aeroplane
Five, thousand spectators, who were watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport, England, on Wednesday, were horrified when the plane, with the…
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