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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1938

2,371 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 62 of 119

Cyclist Killed Collided With Motor-Car SYDNEY, Monday. i

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

When his motor cycle collided with a car on the Pacific Highway at Crow's Nest, Ronald Cusack, 19, was fatally injured…

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Convicted Motorists Right to Drive Restored

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

Three men, who, because of convictions under the Motor Traffic Act, had automatically forfeited their right to hold a driver's licence for 12…

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Skull Fractured Bridge Worker's Fall

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 5

When working 120 feet above the Brisbane River on the Story Bridge works, Leonard White, 32, lost his balance and fell on to a steel girder 20…

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Rubber in Roads the Hague, July 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 1

Various means of using rubber in combination with tars and bitumen were discussed at the International Road Congress at The Hague. Mr. J…

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Train Parts Automatic Brakes Hold NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 8

While passing through Cardiff at 7 o'clock last night, the north-bound Inter-city Express broke into two sections. Nobody was injured…

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Two Charges Damage to Motor Vehicles SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day Stanley Thomas Andrew Nicholls, 18, a callboy, was charged with having maliciously injured a motor lorry property…

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Excessive Speed Four Motorists Fined NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1938 · page 7

Four motorists were fined £3, with 5/6 costs, in the Summons Court to-day for exceeding the speed limit of 30 miles an hour in built up areas in…

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Motor Tour Miss Gunn's Progress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1938 · page 7

Miss Ruth Gunn, the Maitland lady who is at present engaged on a round-Australia motor trip, wired friends in Maitland to-day stating that she had…

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Ald. Annoyed Tenders for Motor Truck SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1938 · page 2

Ald. W. Lloyd was very annoyed with members of the Singleton Municipal Council last night, who, after discussing tenders for a motor truck…

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Work to Regulations Strike National Union of Railway Men Intervene. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 July 1938 · page 2

The national union of railway men has intervened in the regulations strike which has been in progress in the Enfield shunting yards for some…

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Damage to Motor Vehicles Two Charges Against Youth

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 July 1938 · page 2

At the Central Court, Sydney, yesterday, Stanley Thomas Andrew Nicholls, 18, a call-boy, was charged with having maliciously injured a…

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Hexhah Bridge Site

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1938 · page 2

The deputation on' the bridge site appointed at a meeting in Raymond Terrace waited on the Minister, at his rooms (Sydney, last Wednesday week…

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Under Influence Motorist Fined £30 SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1938 · page 9

Alfred Cummings, 44, traveller, at the Paddington Police Court, was fined £30, in default 60 days' hard labour, and disqualiifed from holding a…

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Motor Car Impaled on Fence Post Young Man Badly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1938 · page 1

A young Newcastle man was critically injured in a car smash on the Newcastle road about three miles out of East Maitland,…

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Four Injured Head-on Motor Collision MULLUMBIMBY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1938 · page 13

A head-on collision at a curve in the Pacific Highway near Ewingsdale, between a sedan car and heavy truck resulted in four persons being…

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Road Matters

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 6

From Geo. Cunliffe, forwarding three photos taken at Bunyah, and showing the condition of the road near Mr. T. V. Murray's gate.—The…

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New Scenic Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 2

The scenic road being constructed by the Erina Shire Council is almost complete at the Wagstaffe end, and work on the remaining section is…

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Barrington Tops Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 5

Before proceeding with the principal business for which the meeting was called, the secretary advised that he had written to Maitland and…

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Wootton-topi Topi Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 6

From Hon. E. S. Spooner, per Mr. C. E. Bennett, M.L.A., regretting that it was not possible to consider a full grant for construction of the road…

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Struck by Train Young Man Seriously Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 1

Rouaid Baker (21) was, knocked down by a train a few hundred yards from the Concord railway station to-day…

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