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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
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Harden, Wednesday.—Four were killed and 18 injured when the south-west mail train crashed over an embankment into' a gully this morning between Galgong and Harden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The road tax on motor vehicles carrying goods which cannot be handled by railways has been lifted by the Minister for Transport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE THE SCONE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL A MONTH AGO HAD A MOTION PLACED ON ITS BOOKS THAT THE TREES AND TREE GUARDS IN KELLY STREET WERE TO BE REMOVED, NO…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PATRICK ROUGHAN, of Aberdeen, had a very narrow escape from serious injury on Friday last, whilst driving his cream lorry. Early in the morning a car crashed into his lorry at Scone, necessitating his return to Aberdeen for another lorry. Returning from his run, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Applications for motor vehicles arrived at a rate of 4,800 n month in excess of permits issued, the Federal Minister for Transport. Mr. E. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. E. Lainson, railway inspector, said the Railway Department only had enough coal to move from day to day. If the miners were on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A warning to motorists against driving with the elbow protruding outside the car window as provided by a recent shocking accident in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S. F. Greentree, a railway shunter, was the victim of a painful accident on Wednesday morning last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spreading of a rail over an old and worn sleeper is believed to have caused the rail disaster on Wednesday morning, when four were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pleased men are the trustees for the Mungo Brush picnic reserve. They say it is one of the best moves in the district to have a Mungo-Hawk's Nest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is believed that a steel rail snapped and caused the derailment at Harden and not a broken sleeper. Four persons were killed and 19…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.— Seventy year-old salesman, Albert Henry-Burgess, of 174 Beaumont, street, Hamilton, employed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—When a motor truck, a car and a motor cycle collided about a mile outside Liverpool last night, Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, July, 5.—Developments in the Yugoslavian “crisis” with the Coniform have taken a new turn with a despatch from Reuter’s Vienna correspondent that the Yugoslavs are feverishly erecting barriers on the main/roads crossing to Austria. According to the correspondet they have already slashed back trees 500 feet along…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two 70-ton cranes late yesterday afternoon lifted back to the track the 120-ton C38 locomotive which crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—On further inquiry into this matter I have discovered the following extraordinary situation. The Department of Aviation has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney, Tuesday.—From July 1, 1947, to March 31, 1948, the income from road tolls and other contributing for the use of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY Tuesday— The Nurwll[?] Mall readied Sydney 40 minutes late to-day after having been delayed four hours by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Murwillumbah Mail reached Sydney 40 minutes late to-day after being delayed four hours by a minor derailment near Byron Bay station. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Cahill, advised Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day he could net agree to the…
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