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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1939

2,677 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 134

Pooling Funds Work of Main Roads -Department

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

Strenuous opposition is given by the N.R.M.A. to the suggestion made in Parliament by Mr. Lee that, if developmental works in local, government…

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Luck of Road Farmer Rewarded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 12

Mr. C. J. Borman, a farmer living In the Nylstroom district of the Transvaal, rendered assistance at 2 o'clock one morning to a party of visitors…

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Road Repairs Tamworth to Inverell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

Reporting on the condition of the main roads between Tamworth and Inverell, the N.R.M.A. touring department advises that bituminous surface extends…

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Road Safety Easter Holidays Driving Care

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

A special plea to motorists to display care in their driving at Easter is made by the president of the N.H.M.A. (Mr. J. C. Watson)…

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Grim Joke Dummy Hung From Bridge SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 2

Practical jokers made a grim jest to mark April Fool's Day when they hung the dummy of a man from the Sydney Harbour Bridge…

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Motor World Car Bodies Reinforced Plastics New System

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

So successful has been the adoption of plastics for many parts used in the furnishing of the Interior of motor car bodies that…

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Tram Men's Threat Slow-up Services Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 2

The Tramway Union threatens to slow up all tramway services, commencing on Thursday next at 6 a.m. If a conference to be held…

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New Record Motor Cars in Canada

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 9

Canada is one of the most motor-minded countries in the world. There is one car to every 8.4 persons, according to statistics which have just…

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Car Hits Tram Bank Clerks Hurt NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 5

When a car and a tram collided in Union-street, Junction, two bank clerks were injured. The car was badly damaged. Tram passengers…

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Bounty Duty Building Motor Engines In Australia Little Advance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 10

"With tils object of providing a fund from which subsidies could be paid to the makers of motor chassis and engines in Australia,…

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Parents Killed Cost of Road Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 2

Last Easier a man, his wife and two young children were motorin[?] along one of the State Highways to bring home for the holidays a…

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Parents Killed. Cost of Road Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

Last Easter a man, his wife and two young children were motoring along one of the State highways to bring home for the holidays a daughter…

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£20,000 Road for New Guinea Linking of Salamaua and Wau

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 2

A 50 mile road to cost between £180,000 and £200,000 is to be built to link Salamaua with Wau, the centre of the goldfield area of the Morobe…

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Cyclists Killed Big Increase in Numbers. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 6

An outstanding feature of the road accidents in this State during 1933, according to statistics just released, is in the increased number of pedal…

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Maitland-dungog Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 6

Sir.—May I take up space in your paper to express my disgust at the Seaham-Glen Oak portion of the Maitland-Clarence Town-Dungog Road? I…

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Wage Increases For Railway Employees SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 4

An award was made in the Federal Arbitration Court hy Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman covering New South Wales railway traffic employees, and…

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Probable Reappointment of Railway Commissioners Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 2

It is understood that the Chief Commissioner for Railways, Mr Hartigan, and the Assistant Commissioner, Mr Garside, whose terms of office…

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Flooded Roads at Congewai

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

There must have been some water about Congewai last Tuesday morning. Armstrong's motor lorry, which conveys the…

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Parents Killed Cost of Road Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 5

Last Easter a man, his wife and two young children were motoring along one of the State highways to bring home for the holidays a…

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Road Safety Night Driving in Autumn

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 3

Darkness is a prime factor in causing highway accidents and this is particularly noticeable during the long and foggy nights of the…

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