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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1936

2,499 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 60 of 125

Lawler's Creek Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 6

Mr. Ribbons asked for some assistance on the Lawler's Creek Road. During the last 15 years he had been paying rates on his property and…

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Gloucester-bullahdelah Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 1

At the monthly meeting of Gloucester shire Council held on Friday last, the president, Cr. White, submitted the following minute with…

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Curreeki Creek Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 6

Messrs Jahnsen and Startin again interviewed Council in regard to the Curreeki Creek Road, which Mr. Jahnsen stated was in a very bad…

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Tea Gardens-bullahdelah Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 6

In view of the fact that only £500 remained to complete the Tea Gardens-Bullahdelah road, Cr. Zeininger asked the Engineer what he would…

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Attack on Train Passenger Police Puzzled

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 8

Police inquiring into the attack on Mrs Roessler in a mail train on the way to Maryborough on Monday admit that they are baffled. Clues have proved…

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The Munmurra Bridge—start Made at Last

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 7

The erection of a new concrete bridge over the Munmurra Creek in the township of Cassilis has been pending for some considerable time past,…

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A Large Crowd Dance and War Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 6

The dance and war bridge series conducted in the, Cathedral Hall, West Maitland was continued last night. There was a good attendance…

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Dalwood Bridge Good Progress Made CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 7

The Shire Engineer (Mr. J. Shine) reported to the Kearsley Shire Council last night that good progress had been made with the work on the…

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Road Needs Soldiers' Settlement CESSNOOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 3

A petition from ratepayers on the Weston Solders Settlement last night directed the attention of Kearsley Shire Council to the state of the road…

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Merriwa's Stationmaster. Transferred to Walcha Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 7

Mr. J. C. Warth, who has been statiomaster at Merriwa for the past couple of years, has been transferred to Walcha Road. Mr. Warth is at…

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Road Baking. Success on Black Soil

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 3

In submitting particulars of his heat treatment process which had been employed by the Queensland Main Roads Commission for three years…

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MARKWELL Opening of Road & Bridges Representative Gathering

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 5

A large and representative gathering assembled at Mr. M. Hogan's on Saturday afternoon last, the occasion being the opening of four new bridges…

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Toll of the Road A Greater Menace

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 2

"I am definitely opposed to it, and 1 would not allow my children to be done," declared Alderman Brittiffe when the question of immunisation…

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Merriwa-willow Tree Road. Good Trafficable Order

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 10

The Willow Tree-Merriwa road, which connects the Merriwa district with that of Liverpool Plains, and considerably shortens an otherwise circuitous route…

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Struck by Train Milk Verdor Injured Lorry Wrecked Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 1

When a motor lorry he was driving was struck by a coal trin at Catherine Hill Bay to-day Harold White man, 28, milk vender received a…

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Stroud Shire Council Meeting. (Continued). Tea Gardens-karuah Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 6

From the Tea Gardens Progress Association, (A. W. Vaisey, Secretary) stating that in spite of recent attention to the Tea Gardens-Karuah…

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The Friendly Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 9

"How to be happy—though human." Are you fond of books If so you would enjoy reading a. book with the above title by…

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Motor Cycle Speed London, June 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 11

Fester, riding a New Imperial, won the lightweight motor cycle tourist trophy race of 259 miles in 3 hrs. 33 min. 15 sec at an average speed of…

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N.R.M.A. PATROLS Aid for 3629 Motorists

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 10

Winter conditions and Wet weather found many weak spots in Sydney's motor car fie A last month, according to the report of the N.R.M.A. patrol…

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Motor World Periodical Overhaul

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 10

IT is a mistake to which one readlly plends guilty to allow an engine to run for thousands of miles without a top overhaul viz decarbonlsing…

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