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Railways, roads & transport, 1936

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Railway Excursions For May School Holidays

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 1
Also in The Scone Advocate, Singleton Argus

The Department of Railways notifies that excursion fares will bo charged to and from Sydney and intermediate stations for the benefit of…

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Motor Car Accident at Asfield

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 6

William Thomas Wellington, aged 23, was driving a motor car at Ashlield early this morning, when a tyre blew out, with the result that the car…

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Final Results of Motor Trial Mount View Hill Climb

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 1

Newcastle drivers who participated in the combined motor clubs contest at Cessnock during the week-end were well to the fore when the final…

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The Friendly ROAD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 6

"Our debt to Anzac." Those of us who lived through the stirring days of the war will not easily forget the immense financial debt…

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Motor Tours Middle and Far West Road Conditions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

Late autunm and early winter are the most popular seasons for embarking on tours embracing the middle and far western…

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Port Stephens Condition of Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

Reporting on tho road connecting Newcastle and Nelson's Bay on the southern side of Port Stephens, the N.R.M.A. advises that the surface to…

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New Bridge At Barney's Point

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

The N.R.M.A. touring department has been advised that the Barney's Point Bridge over the Tweed River, between Murwillumbah and Tweed…

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Air and Road Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

Traffic signals have been installed at Washington Airport to control both automobile and air traffic. The aeroplane runaway cresses a main raod,…

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wyong cessnock Rough Road Conditions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

The N.R.M.A. touring department warns motorists that although the direct route from Wyong to Cessnock through Mulbring and Kurri Kurri is…

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TAR-PAVED Armidale-Guyra Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

Reporting on the New England Highway, the Armidale representative of the N.R.M.A. states that the road from Armidale to Guyra is now in…

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Safer Roads Police Campaign Headlight Clare Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 2

"The police campaign against motorists driving with glaring headlights will be carried on vigorously until everything that can…

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Struck by Car On Road All Night NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 2

Found near the Jesmond tramshed early yesterday morning Grorge Barnes, 69, of Robert-street Jesmond, was admitted to Wallsend Hospital…

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Motor World 'Out" that Stain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

The following suggestions which we have extracted from a factory manual of a well known automobile company should prove useful to those…

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Motoring Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 10

The patrolmen of the Automobile Club of Southern California have been issued with new three-wheeled trucks with an ingenious body layout in which…

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Strong, Comment Motor Cyclist Fined GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., made strong comment at the Gosford Police Court yesterday when Ross Wallace Pass-more, of Diamond Bay-road, Vaucluse,…

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CYCLONE Delays Motorship ADELAIDE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 3

Caught in a cyclone on the way from Ocean Island with a load of phosphates, the motor-ship Eimbank arrived at Port Adelaide 13 days behind…

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Train Tragedy Child's Escape New York, April 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 2

The life of a two-year-old boy was spared to-day, when his mother, holding him in her arms, jumped directly in front of a speeding underground…

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Struck by Motor Cycle Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 3

Mrs. J. Spiers, 50, of Toralba, was struck by a motor cycle and sustained extensive lacerations to the left leg, a punctured wound to the right ankle,…

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