TRESPASSING Found on Railway Property
Norman Smith, 47, a Labourer was charged before Messrs S. D. Lewis and E. C, Scarlett Js. O., at the West Mainland Police Court with having…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
1,946 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 98
Great Activity at Defence Roads Camps "Everyone Happy."
The comparative quietude of rural life in that portion of the Bulga and Milbrodale districts through which the road to Putty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tarro Shire Business Man Complains Selling on Roads
“It [?] that I cannot connote control my business any longer; it is controlled by the shire it it grants licence to people to sell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Railway Statistics More Than 28,000,000 Miles Travelled in 1939. SYDNEY
Figures just made available by the Railway Department reveal that New South Wales steam locomotives travelled more than 28,274,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Railway Workers to Strike Court Ruling Resented
Many Broken Hill people holidaying: in Sydney will cut short their stay to return home before railway traffic is held up by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tarred Roads MUSWELLBROOK
At the monthly meeting of the Shire Council it was reported that an officer of the Department of Works and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Train Fire Carriage Destroyed PERTH
Passengers in a sleeping carnage attached to the Perth Wiluna train woke up to find that the carnage was on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Road Accidents New Year Starts Badly Toll Mounting (launch by the Road Council of New South Wales)
As reports are being received by the Department of Road Transport from all parts of the Stale, it is becoming more and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jap. Threat Bomb French Railway (“Mercury” Service) SHANGHAI, January 10
The Japanese Army and Navy have demanded that monition shipments on the French owned Ajiphong Yonan railway to Kunming cease within the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorists Corner Closing Garages on Sunday Vigorous Opposition ([?] Notes by [?])
The look every motorist is discussing at the [?] is, of course, the proposal to [?] It is by no means [?] of contention and the Royal Automobile Club of Australia is fast as vigorously opposing it as…
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Sir,—Some local residents have asked me to again write the ”Mercury" re Oakhat[?]road. I ingested that they write themselves,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Main Road Work
A circular from the Shires' Association advised that complaints were being received that roads which had been constructed and maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Not Required at Present" Cessnock Aerodrome and Air Force Training
Cessnock Council has been advised by the Minister for the Army (Mr. G. A. Street) that the local aerodrome is not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Road to Rawdon Vale Motor Cycle Accident Cycle Falls 200 Feet Below
A tourist from the Newcastle district named Hart had rather a sensational spill while riding a motor cycle over the Rawdon Vale road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Engineer Resigns Joining Main Roads Board. SINGLETON
Mr. C. Meyer has tendered his resignation from the staff of the Singleton Municipal Council. He has been the engineer in charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Train 29 Trucks of Young Cattle
Throughout yesterday (Thursday). afternoon there was a busy scene at Dungog railway trucking yards, when Mr. T. Carlton and his staff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Travel in England Reminders of War
Every train traveller on the Southern Railway in England receives with his ticket one of the many grim reminders of war which fortunately…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local and General Nabiac-bullahdelah Road
Two gangs of men this week resumed work on the road between Bulluhdelah and Nabiac, on either side of O'Sullivan's Gap…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerodrome Deputation May Fly to Melbourne Aldermen Will Not Take "No" for an Answer Federal Member Attends Meeting
The efforts of the Singleton Municipal Council to secure the establishment of a defence aerodrome and an aviation training centre at Singleton took a dramatic, but,forceful, turn last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Union Organiser Visit to Singleton-Putty Road Work SINGLETON
Mr, Breen, northern organiser of the Australian Workers’ .Union, visited the Singleton-Putty road construction job during the week and…
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