Motor Fatality Truck Driven at Excessive Rate of Speed, Says Coroner
"I find that the deceased, Victor Mills, on the 22nd day of May, 1942, at a point of the New England Highway, about one and a half…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
1,225 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 62
Trespassed On The Railway
NEWCASTLE Tuesday.—At five o’clock this morning George Wallace (40), salesman, was found in a carriage at Newcastle…
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CESSNOCK.. Tuesday.—Roy Charles Morns, of Wollombi road; Cessnock, the driven of a bus which struck a car driven…
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GRAFTON Tuesday.—Walk[?] through ,a railway tunnel [?] Coff’s Harbour. Hubert Walsh letter, stumbled over the [?]…
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CESSNOCK Wednesday.— Cessnock Council had proposed to carry out extensive repairs to the bridge in West Avenue, near…
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The shire engineer, Mr. W. H. Lindsay, recommended to today’s meeting of Tarro Shire Council that Peacock’s bridge,…
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The West Maitland Municipal Council, at its meeting last night, dealt with a letter from the Director of Emergency Road Transport in which it was stated that a surrey of the road transport of the district was to be made…
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While Herbert Walsh, a fettler, was walking through a railway tunnel near Coff's Harbour on Monday, he stumbled over the…
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CESSNOCK Wed.— Kearsley Shire Council decided at its meeting last night to ask the Minister for N.E.S. to extend the…
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CANBERRA Wednesday—The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, announced last night that the immediate introduction of priorities…
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The finance committee, in report to the meeting of [?] Maitland Council last night, [?] that, following the Intimat[?]…
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Adequate power to enforce farreaching decisions governing rail transport throughout Australia has been taken by the Federal…
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In view of the fact that not enough transport drivers are being obtained, the R.A.A.F. is enlisting men from 20 to 40 years…
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SYDNEY Thursday—The drastic curtailment of civilian travel will be discussed at a meeting of all State transport executives…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Thursday —Mr. W. T. Seaward, District Coroner, held an inquest at [?] Scone Police Court, in connection…
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A motor car the property Mrs. H. Walsh, was stolen [?] night from the front of her re[?]dence in Hunter-street, [?]…
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It was not till nearly six o’clock last evening that both coal line were cleared of the smashed trucks at High-st.,…
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The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, announced on Tuesday night that the immediate introduction of priorities in railway passenger…
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An elderly man was killed and a soldier, who recently returned from Malaya, had, one leg severed when they were struck by an…
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For some time Cessnock Municipal Council has been giving consideration to the repairs of the bridge at West Avenue, near the Ambulance Station…
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