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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1943

1,006 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 51

Kurri Youth Killed in Fall From Train

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 May 1943 · page 3

KURRI Tues —When he fell from a passenger train near Kurri Kurri about 7 O’clock last night Ronald Knowles Butcher…

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Food for the Train Traveller Services by the R.r.r

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1943 · page 4

Fowls must lay 2,000,000 eggs, cows must produce 364,000 gallons of milk, and orchards must grow 64,000 cases of fruit to keep the New South Wales…

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Request for Crib Time South Maitland Railways Award

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 May 1943 · page 6

Evidence for the [?] company was given before the sitting of the industrial Commission at East Maitland yesterday…

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Motor Car Was Unregistered

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 May 1943 · page 3

KURRI Wed.—For having driven an unregistered car at Kurri Kurri on March 12, [?] Herbert Lockett, of Glendon…

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Japanese Aerodrome Plastered

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 1

SOMEWHERE IN, AUSTRALIA Thursday—A heavy attack on Pentoel aerodrome, at Koepang, Timor, it reported in…

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Ward's River Bridge Repairs

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 3

The acting engineer. Mr. R. E. Baker, rold Stroud Shire Council at its monthly meeting that repair work on Ward’s River Bridge…

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Yanks in England Train For Invasion

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 3

Ross [?] a Canadian news paper reporter [?] the rigorous training given to the US army of invasion now stationed…

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Bridge at Forster As Post-war Job

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 3

The constriction of a bridge between Tuncurry and Forster, and also over the Karuah River, between Karual and Tea…

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Control of Rail And Road Transport

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State Minister for Transport Mr. O’Sullivan [?] his second reading speech of the bill to [?] under…

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Our Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 3

Many users of our road are asking questions; sonic really do not believe that it is a MAIN road. It shall soon be numbered as a has been. If the…

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One Class Train Travel

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 6

Thirty-one sub-branches of the R.S.S. and Airmen's Imperial League wrote, supporting the Tenterfield sub-branch of the League in their agitation for…

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Singleton and District News Road Offer by Putty Residents

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 4

SINGLETON Friday — Mr. V Turnbull, of Rutty, is to be written to by Patrick Plains Shire Council asking him to put into…

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Shire Council Matters Yesterday's Meeting Putty Road—wood Supplies

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 4

Many routine matters were dealt with yesterday by members of Patrick Plaine Shire Council, but included in the business…

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Allied Planes Drop 18 Tons of Bombs on Aerodrome. Japanese Raid Milne Bay, Port Moresby and Douglas Harbor Somewhere in AUSTRALIA.—Friday

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 2

A heavy raid on Rabaul and enemy attack on Allied positions at Milne Bay, Port Moresby, and Douglas Harbour are reported in to-day's General Headquarters communique. The attack on Rabaul aerodrome was carried out by heavy bombers, which dropped 18…

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Rode Motor Cycle While Under Influence of Liquor

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 3

Norman Browning, 21, a soldier, pleaded guilty' at Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday to a charge of having driven a motor cycle in Kline…

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Motor Driver Fined

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 3

SINGLETON Friday.—Thomas Hobbs was fined [?] with 8/- costs for falling to give way to a vehicle on his right, when he…

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Communal Use of Motor Vehicles

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE Sat.— Land Transport Board officials said today that the communal use of motor vehicles offered the best…

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Kerosene Banned As Motor Fuel

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA Sat. —Lighting kerosene has been declared a prohibited fuel for motor vehicles. Regulations were issued…

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13-Years-old Girl Not Been In Train Or To Pictures

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 3

[?] by the authorities into the case of two girls, 13 and 12 years, who lived at Tarro, disclosed that although they…

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Soldiers Fined £20 Illegal Use of Railway Tricycle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1943 · page 3

Five soldiers four of them 18 years of age and the other 19, were fined [?] on each of two charges by Mr. [?] J. Johnstone,…

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