Boy's Arm Severed at Shoulder. Accident on Railway Line
An eight-year-old boy, James Banks, of Merewether, showed Spartan ecourage after his left arm had been severed at the shoulder in an accident on a railway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1935
2,592 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 130
Killed in Motor Cycle Trial
Leslie Brown, aged 20, of Kurri Kurri, was killed instantly shortly after midday yesterday, on the Pokolbin-road, Lovedale, about five miles from…
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Mr. C. E. Bennett, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following communication:—With reference to your personal representations on behalf of Mr…
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Ald. Tickle stated that the railway department should be requested to provide week-end tickets from the city to the country. Although…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Previous Wage Restored by Ford Motors an Increase of 2,000,000 Dollars a Month. Detroit
Ford Motors, Ltd., has announced that it will return immediately to the pre-depression six dollars per day wage minimum. The rate at present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor CyclE Fatality Kurri Youth Killed Near Pokolbin
Another shocking motor accident, causing the death of Leslie Kitchener Brown, 19, of Kurri, occurred in the…
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The number of motor accidents which have occurred on the Newcastle-Maitland road at night during the past year or 30 points to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Safer Roads Position Improves Police to Confer Sydney
It is evident that motorists have already heeded the warning issued by the traffle authorities last week that if drivers of motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Device Automatic Lubrication Railway Rails Sydney
A new automatic rail and flange inbrieating machine, which has been in operation on a section of the city railway, has proved so successful that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Motor Accident
A fatal motor accident occurred about a mile from Kempsey. Mr and Mrs Albert Hartup, of 'Chinderah, Tweed River, were motoring from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Accidents
A statement issued by the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Maddocks) shows that 356 persons were killed and 6089 injured in 8134 road accidents in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stopped a Train
Five young men, who are alleged to have stopped a goods train with a rod signal and climbed into a truck and travelled to [?], where they were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Express Car On Cessnock Train
The Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxnor) has advised Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., that arrangements have been made for the express-type car to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Theory Death of Motorist Car Left Road Gosford
That Arthur William Cutler, 55, a commercial traveller of Manly, and placed his foot on the accelerator instead of the brake while negotiating a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Killed Aeroplane Crashes Sequoia National Park (Calif.), May 29
Two Army aviators and two motion picture photographers were killed to-day when a large Army bombing aeroplane crashed here, and hurst into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public Road Would Ruin Home Injunction Granted Sydney
An interim injunction to restrain Patrick Plains Shire Council from proclaiming in the Government Gazette that it had taken part of his land as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Consignment of Bullion Disappears from Train MYSTERY! worth £6000 Police on Job Adelaide
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a consignment of bullion worth £6000, from the Alice Springs-Quorn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →25 Miles an Hour Children Scatter Motorist Fined Newcastle
"Take my advice, keep a (better look-out, and lessen your speed when passing a school," said Mr. Scane, S.M., to Gordon Thompson, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For the Motorist Entering One-Way Streets R.A.C.A NOTES
It has been noticed that quite a number of drivers interrupt the regular flow of traffic and endan-ger the safety of other users of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Winter Times Railway Service NEWCASTLE
The winter timetable of the Railway Department, which will be Issued in JULY, provides for no unusual…
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