Motor Vehicles Collide
A car driven by Mr. John Joseph Ernst, of Morpeth, and a lorry driven by Mr. Gordon W. Chick of Gresford. collided on…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
1,284 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 65
Shire Roads
Councillors of Patrick-Plains Shire are not satisfied with the procedure hi which its roads are being repaired…
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GENERALLY speaking we have come to regard rood accidents as being due to the reckless road users, the people who scorch up the highways without regard for their own safety or that of others who are using the…
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The Lower Hunter Flood Mitigation and Soli Conservation Committee, at a meeting In Maitland yesterday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: Death On The Roads Seal of British Law on Irish Partition Complex Bill In Commons
LONDON, May 4.—The British Parliament yesterday gave its first formal reading to a wordy and complex Bill embodying the paradox that Republican Eire is neither “part his Majesty’s dominions nor a foreign country.”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Industry Hard Hit By Bendix Strike Thousands of Men Idle
NEW YORK, May 4.—The motor industry is already hard hit by a of 7500 United Automobile Workers’ Union members at the Bendix Aviation Company’s plant. South Bend, indiona, which makes brakes…
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[?] night last, Senior Constable [?] Newcastle gave a lecture in [?] Memorial Hall, on Safety First and Traffic Regulations. The speaker was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miniature Farm Motor Truck
Though not in anyway a tractor for farm work, the Wrigley Wessex Motor Truck is a handy vehicle for small loads and is quite capable of running over rough ground. This picture shows the truck being driven across a ploughed field during a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Country woman who attended the N.S.W. association’s conference in Sydney decided to ask the Railways…
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NEWCASTLE: Northumberland County Council yesterday approved of the zoning of an area of land at Rutherford for an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Money For Roads (To the Editor)
Sir, A financial statement presented at a Kenrsley Shire Council meeting, showed a surplus In nearly every department. Would it be asking too…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Accident Prevention Mayor Calls Public Meeting for Next Week
Residents of Singleton are to be asKed to do something to protect themselves from road accidents which have again begun…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aberdeen Motor Cycle Deaths Coronial Inquest Held No Blame Attached to Driver of Sulky
Mr. W. T. Seaward, District Coroner, held an inquest touching the deaths of Norman James Carrington O'Brien and John Edmund Morrow, who died following injuries received when a motor cycle being…
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NEWCASTLE Sat—The District Superintendent of Railways has advised the council of the Chamber of Commerce that in…
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DETROIT, May 6.—A dispute [?]er assembly line speeds in the [?]rd Motor Company’s River [?]oueo plant yesterday evoked a…
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SYDNEY, Monday—N.R.M.A. emergency road services in the Sydney metropolitan area are being carried out by radio telephony A…
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The organiser of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen’s Association (Mr. A. Richards) this afternoon advised the 70…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General News Motor Cyclist Hurt
Singleton motor cyclist, Kevin Monkley, received a severe laceration to the leg when his motor cycle came into collision with a…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. —The mutilated body of a woman, believed to be Mrs. Ellen Myra Fathers, 24, domestic, of Turramurra, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Council and "C" Riding Roads
A full report of the Shire Council discussion on the condition of the roads in "C" riding will be published in our next issue…
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