Fire Engine Hits Tram
Answering a malicious false alarm caused injury to a Sydney fireman. A blow out of the front…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
1,253 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 63
Main Roads Tenders
As the Department of Main Roads intends to revert, to the pre-war practice of inviting tenders for the supply at delivery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Injured ln Train Smash
BRISBANE, Wednesday — When a light engine crashed into a stationary workers’ train at Roma street station…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage To Louth Park Road
Frequent complaints had been received of. damage to Park. Road by heavy traffic; particularly coal Iorries, the works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Evasion of Rail Crossing Subway Main Roads Department Says Council Matter
On the matter of a subway or overhead bridge on the John Street railway. crossing, the Department of Main Roads has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arm Badly Fractured in Motor Accident
James A. Mills, aged 28, of Manilla Street, Manilla, received a badly fractured right arm when the lorry he was driving along the Glenridding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Immediate Danger Of Railway Strike
There is no immediate danger of the Railway strike at Easter. This has been indicated by the almost certain prospect that the…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Harold Eugene McDonald 45 of Percival-street, West Kogarh, died in St. George District Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greater Share of Petrol Tax for Roads
SINGLETON, Thurs.—At a public meeting called by the Singleton branch of the Primary Producers’ Union and held last…
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When Maitland City Council was discussing its 1947 works programme, Ald E.C. Scarlett asked why it was intended to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Motor Accident
On Monday morning last a fatal accident occurred on the Medowie road near the Ringwood bridges when a motor lorry laden with timber got out of control and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kerbing At Railway Station
The engineer submitted to Maitland City, Council an estimate of £78 for concrete Kerbing and guttering of the approaches to West…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cyclist Injured
Whilst trying to avoid a motor car on Maitland road, at Haxham, to-day, Jack Long, 24, of Rous-street, East Mainland swerved his…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A well known Queanbeyan man, Mr. William C. Howes, 54, was killed last night when a utility truck he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Fellowship Still Lives
SYDNEY, Friday.— The spirit of road fellowship, born when motorists had to “get out and get under,” still lives, according…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Denman Road Fatality. Child Killed
Roger Hargy (8) was killed when a car and a lorry collided at 6.20 p.m. yesterday on the Muswellbrook-Dennian road. The car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Head-on Collision on Denman Road
In a head-on collision between a car and lorry on the Denman road last night, a car turned over twice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£60,000,000 Loss Through Road Toll
SYDNEY, Friday,—The Road Safety Council estimates the economic loss by New South Wales road accidents during the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton Public Meeting Makes Demands Concern Over State of Roads in Shire Area
The well-attended public meeting held in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday night for the purpose of considering the present serious state of the roads within the Shire of Patrick Plains, passed a resolution requesting the local Parliamentary member to ask that in the Federal Roads Agreement provision be made to make an allocation of 90…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Tax For Road Maintenance P.P. Bodies Appeal For Greater Proportion
SINGLETON, Friday. — A resolution urging that a greater proportion of the petrol tax be allotted to local governing bodies, for the maintenance of roads was carried by a public meeting, convened by the local P.P.U. to consider the…
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