Bridge Fence Damaged
Portion of the safety fence on both sides of the Long Bridge. West Maitland, was damaged yesterday afternoon when motor vehicles…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
1,253 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 63
Re-building of Bridge
The Minister for Works (Mr. Cahill) advised Lowe Hunter Shire Council to-day that if any good purpose would be served by a…
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Twenty-seven bodies so far have been removed from the wreckage of the two Canadian National Railway passenger trains which collided head…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Residents in Motor Vehicle Accidents
Two local residents were involved in accidents around Maitland yesterday afternoon and last night. One of the vehicles overturned. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Noxious Weeds on Roads
Lower Hunter Shire Council decided to co-operate with Inch[?]an Shire Council in efforts to have the Local Government Act…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →C . W . A . Flag Bridge Afternoons
Interest has been well maintained in the current series of flag bridge afternoons being conducted by Maitland branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toll of The Road In N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Road Transport Department to-day revealed that in the year ended June 30,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carrier’s Motor Breach
KURRI KURRI, Thurs.—Arthur A Ingle, carrier, of Mount View-street, Cessnock, pleaded guilty at Kurri Kurri Court to-day to having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£1000 Grant for Bridge
The Minister for Public Works advised Warrah Shire Council that he would make a grant of £1000 towards the cost of construction…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Sequel to an accident when Walter [?] narrowly escaped injury when he fell from a moving train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire Road-making Plant. Conditions Governing Use on Private Work
At last meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council it was decided, on the motion of Crs. S. J. Hunt and S. E. Edwards, "That council approves the practice of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nearly Lost Life, But Fined for It Young Man Charged with Trying to Board Moving Train
Notwithstanding that he went within inches of losing his life through endeavouring to board a moving train at Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Service for Local Motorists. "While You Wait Battery Charging "
As with so many other things that we used to say, "can't be done"—science has again cofounded all our pre-conceived ideas—and this time on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rover Motors Bus Fares Kearsley Council Agrees To Increase
Kearsley Council has agreed to the proposal that Rover Motors bus fares be increased…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Dump at Railway
PERSEVERENCE REWARDED. The Railway Commissioners have at last agreed to provide a wheat dump at the Merriwa…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Resisted Arrest and Assaulted Constable. Railway Worker Fined
For using indecent language, behaving in an offensive manner and resisting a constable in the execution of his duty, John Ryan, a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Keen to Contest Motor Races
SYDNEY, Friday.—More than 100 riders applied for, inclusion in the programme for the reopening of the Show Ground…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The First Aeroplane To Fly
Do you remember the times during the war when there were numbers of planes flying overhead, and how you used to watch them, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Girls Killed in Motor Smash Lorry and Charabanc Collide Near Cessnock
CESSNOCK, Saturday—When a charabanc and a 4-ton motor lorry came into collision at Neath on the main road three miles from Cessnock this morning, two young girls were killed and four people injured…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Last month 326 people were convicted of railway offences, including 244 for trying to evade payment of railway…
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