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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1938

2,371 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 119

Stroud Road Matters

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 6

From G. Ratley, for Stroud Road Progress Association, asking for construction of bridge over Barnes Creek on Reidsdale Road, tarring of…

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Sale Abstracts Wybong Road (Muswellbrook)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 1

Saturday, 29th January: Clearing sale of high class dairy herd, irrigation plant, farm machinery and dairy utensils, a/c Mr. W. S. Turnbull…

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Caledonia Level Crossing Question of Overhead Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 4

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., has received from the Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) a communication which…

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Cars Collide On Whittingham Road SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 6

Mr. J. McNamara and Miss E. Halter, of Singleton, were fortunate to escape injury when the car in which they were travelling on the…

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Level Crossings. "Careless Motorists Cause Accidents." Railway Department's View

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 5

The Railway Department, replying to a request from the Graziers' Association of N.S. Wales, that level railway crossings should be eliminated…

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The Quest For Beauty Is Fasting a Safe Road to Health and Beauty?

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 5

Medical writers have recently turned the spotlight on to the so-called vegetarian diet, and graphically told of the dangers of this practice. Fasting-otherwise the drastic plan of cutting off all…

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Court of Petty Sessions Friday, 21st JANUARY. (Before Mr C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.m.). Aftermath of Camberwell Bridge Tragedy

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 5

William Andrew Nesbitt Teasdale, of Muswellbrook, was charged with driving a car in a public street in such a way that the car was not kept…

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Competition From Air. Trans-continental Railway. Melbourne

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 2

The Commonwealth Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Gahan) said to-day that as a result of the growing competition of air services passenger…

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Motor Vehicles Registration Figures British Makes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 8

New motor vehicles registered in Australia in 1937 totalled 80,712, excluding an unknown number placed on the roads in country districts of…

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Two Killed. Motoring Fatality. Near Biniguy

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 5

Mr. Geoffrey Onus, 27, of Yagobre Station, was killed instantly, and Mr. Hendry Milling, commercial traveller, 40, died shortly after admission to…

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New Railway Waggons Some to Be Imported

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 1

Included in the new railway rolling stock programme recently announced by the Premier (Mr B. S. B. Stevens) was a provision to build 5000 24-ton…

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The Friendly Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 6

HUMAN HIGHLIGHTS. Hero is a series of incidents from real. life to which, I consider, are outstanding human events. They…

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Traffic Problem Germany's Road System British Interest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 9

The recent British Delegation of 200 road and traffic experts, members of Parliament, etc., to Germany, to inspect tho hugo new motor road…

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Man Killed Struck by Motor Car NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 1

When walking across the street in front of his residence In Fullerton-street,? Stockton, last night, Joseph Ross, 75, was struck by a car and…

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New Industries Steel Motor Car Bodies Rolling Mills

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 9

One of the amazing things about modern industry is the manner in which research, development and progress bring into being new industries,…

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Safety of Travel by Motor Vehicles Interesting Analysis of Accident Statistics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 9

Despite the fact that the figures covering fatal accidents in Australia in 1936, recently issued by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, are just over 12 months old, the record contains features that are of more than passing interest…

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Motor Trucks Aids to Agriculture

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 9

Evidence of the increasing use of the motor truck in industry and agriculture in Australia is the fact that more than 20,000 new trucks are…

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Hounds Popular English Holiday Meet Roads Thronged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 6

We were driving home through the bare winter landscape from a run out into Gloucestershire to see an ancient and noted church…

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Sheep Taken Over Newly-tarred Road

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 2

A mob of about 100 sheep, which had been encamped in the travelling stock reserve at Sedgefield, were taken through the barrier that stretched…

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Light Horsemen Special Train to Sydney CASINO

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 8

The North Coast contingent of Light Horsemen, with their mounts and full equipment, left by special train to-day for the Sydney celebrations. Forty-eight…

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