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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1933

2,125 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 53 of 107

Struck by Train Died from Injuries NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 1

A man named Evan Roderick, labourer, residing in Michael-street, Jesmond, was found injured on the railway near Adamstown to-day,…

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Lion Seen Again }Pn Road Near Taree. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 2

When Richard Hall was about eight miles from Taree last night he saw an animal on the roadside resembling a lion…

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Another Train Derailment Western Mail near Disaster Broken Rail Believed to Be Cause

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 1

following closely upon the disaster at downing early last Tuesday morning, when four carriages and a brake-van of the Albury Mail left the rails, with several of the cars, injuring six passengers, a possinle unsaster was averted early yesterday morning, when an engine…

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Fatal Injuries Crashed Into Tram

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 6

Alan Calder Taylor (21), of Wilson Street, North Sydney, whose skull was fractured on Friday night when his motor cycle crashed into a tram…

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Expenditure on Roads. Motorists Seek Larger Sum

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 5

Reports from motorists indicated that the sum now available to the Main Roads Department was having a most serious effect on road conditions…

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Unmade Road. Merriwa-willow Tree

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 4

On June 23 the official opening of the new road across, from Merriwa via Miller's Creek Gap to Willow Tree should have taken, place, but had to be…

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Lion Seen Again. on Road Near Taree

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

When Richard Hall was about eight miles from Taree on Sunday night he saw an animal on the readside resembling a lion…

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Mail Train Derailed. Tender and Three Carriages. Lithgow

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

Part of the Cobar mail train, while proceeding to Sydney, was detailed at three minutes past two o;clock this morning, about two miles cast of…

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Motoring. Why Plugs Wear Out

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 6

While many motorists are still content to let the spark plugs of their cars "carry on" just so long as they are willing, more and more are learning to…

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Killed When Nearing Home. Member of Haydon Family Motoring Pataity at Kankool. Murrurundi

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 5

As a result of a car overturning yesterday one woman was Killed and another injured. Early on Monday morning Mrs…

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Died in Train Mr. Moore Sykes SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 3

A Vancouver cable states that Mr. Moore Sykes, of Melbourne, was found dead in the compartment of his train yesterday near Janeville,…

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BARRINGTON Road to the Brush Grant Urged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 6

The question of having improvements made to the road leading to Barrington Tops Brush, came before West Maitland…

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Defence Plans Policy Announced Motor Transport Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 2

A new defence policy for the comprehensive reorganistion of the Australian military forces on a mechanised basic are announced…

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Motor Traffic Rail Chief a Hint

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 7

The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Hartigan) told deportment at [?] that the railway were trying to co-operate with motor traffic, but…

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Motor Spirit Taxation, Cut Urged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. is making a big effect to persuade the Federal Government to provide for a substantial reduction in the Customs and excise…

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Railway Guard's Death Had to Appear on Serious Charge. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 2

Henry Roy Dowton, a railway guard, was cut to pieces by a train of which he was in charge at Harden last night. Dowton was on remand to appear…

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Road Transport

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 4

At Aulbury the police magistrate, Mr. Parker, found A. J. Hill, and P. Hill guilty of a breach of the New South Wales Transport Co-ordination Act, 1931, and…

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Kitchener Road Motor Fatality. Story at To-day's Inquest. South Cessnock Youth's Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 3

When a motor car crashed over a bridge on the Cessnock-Kearsley road at about 11 p.m. on June 14th, Herbert Bradley Black, of McFarlane Street, South Cessnock, was killed almost instantly. Four…

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Bridge Footway Chamber of Commerce Notices Required

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 6

Surprise was expressed at the monthly meeting of the Maitland and District Chamber of Commerce last evening when the…

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Turned Down Rouchel-road Request ABERDEEN, Thursday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 4

Mr. Malcolm Brown, M.L.A., has been notified by the Main Roads Board that the application made by the Aberdeen Municipal Council to…

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