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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1938

2,371 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 119

A Fallacy Thirty Miles Limit Road Safety Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 5

The Superintendent of the Central District Ambulance, Mr. H. J. Mitchell, stated to-day that no greater degree of safety for drivers on the…

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Act Cautiously Careless Motor Drivers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 7

While the increased popularity of motoring tends to improve conditions generally, it has one disadvantage, says the R.A.C.A., that is the…

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Fatal Smash Motor Cyclist Killed SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 14

Jack McCann, 21, of Enfield, was killed and Charles Kins, 20, of Enfield, was critically Injured, when a molor-cyclo and a taxi collided at…

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Care Urged Traffic at Tram Stops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. safety department is issuing an appeal to motorists to exercise care, when stopping for stationary trams…

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450 a Week New Motor Vehicles SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 9

The Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. G. N. Neale, states that motor oars are being registered at the rate of 450 a week in New South…

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Motor Drive Pleasant Outing Promised

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 4

An attractive outing in the form of a motor drive to Gresford has been arranged by the Maitland business men in association with the motor traders…

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Bridge Decking. Motorists Complain

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 4

Motorists using the Muswellbrook Denman road continue to complain of the condition of the decking of the bridge spanning the Hunter River…

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Fourth -Street Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., has received from the Minister for Works and Local Government a communication which…

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London's Roads Modern Standards

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 9

Reconstruction of the principal roads radiating from central London in accordance with the highest modern standards: this recommendation…

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Further Progress with Proposed Aerodrome Government Official Says Best Inspected Yet

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 4

Developments in recent weeks give every indication that everything is favourable to the cstablishment of a first-class…

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PICK-A-BACK Composite Aeroplane Successful Test London, February 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 9

The first official test of the Short Brs. composite (pack-a-back) plane to-day was an impressive spectacle. Cheers were raised by 3000 employees…

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Cars Collide on Wangat Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 2

A head-on collision between two cars occurred on the Wangat road, about 12 miles from Dungog, on Wednesday morning. No one was injured…

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Gosford-woy Woy Road Gosford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Plans and specifications for the Waterfront Road to connect Gosford by direct route to Woy Woy, will be sent by the Gosford Municipal…

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Road Worker's Death Bullet in Head

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 6

Albert Knight, 48, an employee of the Mail Roads Department, engaged on Tenterrleld road construction, was found in his tent at Mummulgum…

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Fatal Road Smashes Three People Killed Gosford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 8

A man and his infant son were killed, and three other persona ware admitted to hospital when a touring car, containing eight…

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Flood Havoc in Tasmania Bridges Swept Away and Roads Torn Up

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

After a night's heavy rain, creeks and rivers in the Tamar Valley (Tas.) overflowed on Wednesday morning, tearing up roads and…

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Shire Roads. Estimated Expenditure For 1938. Engineer's Special Report. In a special report to the meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council last week, the Shire Engineer (Mr. H. R. Huntington) submitted a list of estimated expenditure on the district roads for 1938

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

In "C" riding, the estimated expenditure on Cattle Creek, Cooba Bulga, Eastern Brook, Llangollen, Comiala, Rotherwood, Darkwood,…

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World Survey Forty-two Million Motors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 8

A preliminary survey of the world's motor vehicle registrations at the close of 1937 reveals a total of 42, 400,000, according to statistics issued…

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Theft of Motor Car Moss Vale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 4

Eric Stanley Pears was sentenced, to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour at the Moss Vale Police Court for stealing a motor car, the property…

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Fatal Collision Near Lismore Car and Motor Truck

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

Mrs Kathleen Wilhelmina Gill, aged 43, of Newrybar, was fatally injured when the car in which she was a passenger came into collision with…

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