Lambert Wins 6-Miles Road Race
Singleton Cycle Club held a six-mile road race on Saturday, and tins resulted in a brilliant win for Norman Lambert…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
1,253 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 63
Local Man Fell Under Moving Train Remarkable Escape Yesterday Afternoon
Attempting to board the 5 p.m. passenger train as it was moving from Singleton station yesterday afternoon, Wal. Spinks, a young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train From Newcastle Not Suitable to Show Councillors Further Representation to Be Made to Anniversary Organisers
The organising committee for the 150th anniversary celebrations of Newcastle and the Hunter Valley informed Saturday's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Campaign for Better Roads. Association Formed at Dunedoo
At a meeting held at Dunedoo recently a Better Roads Association was formed. Every centre from Cassilis to Dubbo and from Mudgee to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cars, Luxury Goods. Imports Likely to Be Cut. Cabinet's Dollar Saving Campaign. Canberra, Tuesday
It was officially revealed to-day that motor cars, some films, luxury clothing, toys, fancy goods and other commodities are likely to he included…
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The Railway ball will be held on Friday, 1st August, at the Muswellbrook School of Arts, dancing from 8 p.m. until 2 p.m. Two orchestras…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Tenders for Bridge
Not a single tender was received for the reconstruction of Moran’s Bridge at Hinton, the shire engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hands Cut Off by Train
ADELAIDE, Wed.—While she ran along holding her husband’s band as the express for Melbourne was moving out of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →C.W.A. Flag Bridge Afternoon
Commencing on Thursday afternoon next members of [?] Maitland branch of the Co-in[?] Women’s Association are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moslems Ambush Train
LAHORE, July 24. — A Moslern mob, which ambushed a suburban train at a nearby village, killed 11…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agitation for a Bridge
There was a representative meeting at the Shire Offices, Raymond Terrace on Thursday night ast, July 17th of delegates from various Shire Councils and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glen Oak Road
At the Council meeting Cr. Lantry asked when Glen Oak road work would be started. The Engineer said there were some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dragged by Electric Train Escaped
SYDNEY, Thursday.—When he fell between the platform and a moving eclectic train at Homebush last night, Reginald Lenoise, 16, of Strathfield, clung to the ironwork beneath the train until it baited and escaped with minor…
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MANILA (Associated Press): Imaginative Filipinos and many Americans long have dreamed of a project to create a 1300-mile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bennett Bridge Repairs Aldermen in Quandary Over Traffic
The annoyance caused to residents of Dungog by the noise of traffic over Bennett Bridge, and to traffic itself by the condition of the bridge, should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Engine Derailed in Railway Yards. Merriwa
On Friday night last, in the local railway yards, an engine which had brought out one of the stock trains for loading on Saturday morning, met…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cyclist Fined for Carrying Pillion Passenger Sequel to Accident on New England Highway
Cleve Myer, of Newcastle, who had held a motor cycle rider's licence for 10 months—two months less than the law allows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Wife Strangled In Train
LONDON, July 25.—A few hours after Mrs. Catherine Knight, 18, of stranraer, was found stranghed in a train near Glasgow, her husband James Knight, 30, a former Navy man, was founded in a Glasgow hotel with a wrist wound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclists Killed
SYDNEY, Saturday: — Two motor cyclists were killed in accidents last night, one at North and the other at…
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LONDON, July 25.—Converting his record breaking six-cylinder MG to four cylinders by cutting out the second and fifth…
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