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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
1,325 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 67
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Figures issued by: the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. C. N; Ne[?]le, show that the road toll in 1945-46 was the highest since 1941. There were 10,565 accidents in which 483 persons were billed and 7342…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Despite Statements emanating from official sources that the Commonwealth Government is resolved to put an end to petrol rationing as soon as possible,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MUSWELLBROOK: The serious shortage of houses-was emphas[?]ed when applications were made at the Police Court for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal, Commissioner (Mr. Williams), commenting on the Locomotive Enginmen's Union's demand that the Government peg the use of coal by the BHP at its 1994 quota, declared that, in no circumstances,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Consequent upon the almost impossibility of securing rail trucks, [?]ue to the acute coal shortage, motor lorries, large and small, continue to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland CWA, in response to numerous requests, has decided to conduct a further series of flag bridge afternoons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY Wed— The general secretary of the NRMA (Mr. H. L. Johnson ) said to-day that the Government should take…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE Wed. — When a utility and a three ton truck collided about two miles from Ingham three persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY Wed.— A more rigid in section is being made of motor vehicles when they are presented for the annual check-over. This is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total revenue handled at the local railway station during July was £2592. according to the official statistics made available This was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is scarcely likely that anyone will disagree with the statement made at the Australian Safety Convention at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday,—A deputation representing local governing bodies and other organisations from the Hunter Valley and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — A man, who it was subsequently discovered, had quite recently left Broughton Half caused a lot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY Thurs.—An unidentified man, believed to have fallen from a train at Strathfield to-day, died in the Western Suburbs Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourth of the series of increasingly popular dances, at the Literary Institute, East Maitland, is to be held next Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday. — The old emergency transport committee, which is holding its final meeting to-day, will be replaced by a special authority to co-ordinate rail and road transport…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, August 15.—Britain’s youngest Member of Parliament, Captain Francis Noel Baker, crossed the Pyrenees to France after a 10-day secret visit to die underground leaders of Spain’s Republican resistance movement says Renter’s…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Despite opposition from Newcastle steelworkers, who yesterday attacked the proposal as “stupid,” the Locomotive Engineman’s Union will persist with its request to the Trades and Labour Council that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the request of Mr. Lindsay, Engineer to the Council of Lower Hunter, I met him on the site of the above named bridge, which is a low level…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE. Friday. For travelling in a railway carriage between Wyong and Broadmeadow an aborigine, Ronald Turnbull…
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