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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1935

2,592 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 130

Toll of Road Dangerous Drivers N.R.M.A. View Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 1

Comment was made to-day by the Publicity Officer, Mr. Mitchell, on behalf of the N.R.M.A., on the accident figures issued by…

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Toll of the Road N.R.M.A. Officials Discuss the Position. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 2

Officers of the N.R.M.A., commenting on the large number of.road accidents in New South Wales last year, declared that to reduce the death roll of the…

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Heavy Traffic Railway Figures Caused by Drought Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 3

Advices received of drought condi[?] in the Western and North-western districts of the State are strikingly reflected in the volume and type…

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"WINTERPROOF" Motoring Hints

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 2

In many respects, winter-time driving is hard on cars—and on motorists. The most common trouble met with in the cold weather is, of course,…

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Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 4

Lindsay John Horrocks, 50, married, of Vine-street, Kensington (Adelalde) was fatally injured when the car be was driving was wrecked in a…

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Peat's Ferry Toll Bridge Favoured Traffic Delays Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1935 · page 6

Aldermen of the New Lambton Council last night decided to support a move to have a bridge erected over the Hawkesbury…

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BEWARE! Speeding Motorists Toll of Life Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1935 · page 1

Excessively fast driving by motorists indulging in their craze for speed may be stopped in future. Alarmed at the increasing number…

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Motor Taxation (To the Editor)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1935 · page 3

Sir,—Please allow me to congratulate you on the simple and able manner in which you have tabulated facts in connection with taxation on motor…

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Wage Restored Ford Motors, Ltd. Pre-depression Rate Detroit, May 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1935 · page 7

Ford Motors, Ltd., has announced that it will return Immediately to the pro-depression six dollars a day wage minimum. The rate at present is five…

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Lochinvar Creek Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 6

At last night's meeting of the Kearsley Shire Council, a letter was received from the Lochinvar Agricultural Bureau drawing attention to…

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Bridge at Quorrobolong

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 6

Kearsley Shire Council last night received a letter from the Quorrabolong Progress Association drawing attention to the fact that the…

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Cessnock Aerodrome To Be Opened With Air Pageant

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 8

The official opening of the Cessnock aerodrome, which has been arranged for June 29, will take place to the…

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Big Coal Train. Leaves Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 2

A train of 28 hoppers which left Muswellbrook for Newcastle on Wednesday carried 300 tons of local coal…

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Krui River Bridge. Open for Traffic

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 8

The new concrete bridge over the Krui River at Coliaroy is to be declaroil open tor traffic to-morrow. This bridge which is a very imposing…

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Bad State of Allandale Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 5

Ald. Ryan, at Tuesday night's meeting of the Cessnock Council referred to the [?] condition of Allandale road from the…

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Generous Offer Sandy Creek Bridge CESSNOOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 7

Representatives of Kearsley Shire Council, after conferring with residents of Quorrebolong agreed to carry out the erection of a bridge across Sandy…

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In Bad State Lochinvar Greek Bridge CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 7

The Lochinvar Agricultural Bureau has directed the attention of Kearslay Shire Council to the had state of the bridge at Lochinvar Creek. The…

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Collision in Bridge Street. Man Injured To-day

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 2

Jack Morigan, of Muswellbroolt, received extensive injuries to the body and head when he was thrown oil to the roadway from a…

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Man Killed Run Down by Train GOULBURN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 7

Early this morning William Morgan (50) of Melbourne, was run down and killed by a train near the Goulburn railway station…

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Hospital Patient Killed by Train Shockingly Mutilated. Goulburn

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 6

William Morgan, aged 50, was missed from the local hospital, where he was an inmate, early this morning, and half an hour later he was run down by a…

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