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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1940

1,946 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 98

Bullahdelah-gloucester Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 4

Regarding the construction of Developmental Road 1110, Bullahdelah to Gloucester, the Department of Main Roads advised that action…

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Legge's Camp Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 5

A. E. Dickinson, Myall Lakes, drew Council's attention to the bad condition of Legge's Camp road. On the motion of Crs. Zeininger…

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Road Safety Meeting

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 5

At the Cessnock Municipal Council Chambers, next Wednesday night, a public meeting, convened by the Mayor (Ald. J. Brown), will beheld…

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Twenty-seven Military Lorries in Bridge Street

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 8

Forty men of the 16th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment, bringing a convoy of 27 motor lorries from Sydney to Armidale, where the…

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Main Roads Protest To Department Strong Criticism Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

“The main [?] Department is the [?] that ever [?] on the body policie,” said that President of…

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Transfer of Teacher Woolomin to Stroud Road

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 6

Mr. L. A. Germon of Woolomin Public School has been transferred to Stroud Road School. Before his departure from Woolomin he and his…

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Men Who Were Dismissed From Putty Road

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 6

Mr D'Arcy Rose, M.L.A., recently obtained an assurance from the Minister for Labour and Industry that ceitain men who had been dismissed…

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Work Nullified Effect of Drought on Roads Shire’s Decision Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

Because the [?] of [?] work being down on the roads [?] the two tractor pic[?] is being [?] by the [?] weather. Patrick…

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Council Incensed Clause in Petition Proposed Road in "C" Riding

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 5

Objection was taken by Wallarobba Shire Council at last Tuesday's meeting to a clause of a petition from residents of Lewinsbrook and Parks…

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Request Refused Karuah-Tea Gardens Road Loan Liability Stroud Shire Council

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 5

A request by Stroud Shire Council that the Main Roads Department should take over some proportion of the cost of the remaining instalments…

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Shir President Castigates Main Roads Department. "Greatest Excrescence That Ever Attached Itself to the Body Politic"

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 1

The President of the Patrick Plains Shire Council, Councillor A. C. Marshall, speaking at the monthly meeting of the Council yesterday, severely criticised the Department of Main Roads. Claiming that the most recent evidence of its money-squandering…

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Motor-van Catches Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 10

At about 6.15 on Tuesday night a bread delivery motor-van owned by George Nattrass and garaged in a shed…

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Man Electrocuted Railway Employee NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 7

Raymond Walden, 21, of Railway-street street, Merewether Junction, employed as an electrician by the Department meat of Railways, was electrocuted…

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Friendly Road- [?]

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 5

THE REST THINGS, I [?] an evening recently in the [?] of a progressive young [?]…

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Scenic Roads In Lithgow District

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 8

The N.H.M.A, touring department has received advice regarding the scenic roads in the Lithgow arca, The Hassan’s Walls road is at…

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Posts Uprooted Heavy Lorry Crashes Into Bridge

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

When a heavy lorry got out of control while crossing the Thornton Bridge on the New England Highway, it veered to the left and…

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Road Safety Meeting Called For Cessnock CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 9

The Mayor of Cessnock, Ald. J. Browa, at the request of the Minister for Transport, Mr. M. F. Bruxner, is calling e meeting in the Council…

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Road Safety Launching Of New Campaign COUNTRY DISTRICTS(Lased by the Road Safety Couns of Now South Wales)

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

Pla[?]us are being completed of the traffic anotyher[?] for the Launching of what to be known as a selective campaign for road…

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Lorry Wrecked Collision With Train At Morpeth Youth in Hospital

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

Following a collision between the Morpeth Eadt Maitland train and a motor lorry on the railway crossing near the…

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Electric Starers for Motors Great Labour-Saving Device

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 8

Few [?] day [?] [?] the fact that, [?] years age, an motor [?] and to be [?]…

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