Motoring in Wet Weather
In view of rain-damaged roads and bad visibility, many motorists are driving too fast and many pedestrians are taking…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1950
1,382 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 70
Bulga Residents' Fears For Bridge's Safety Double Erosion Menace
Residents of Bulga are becoming worried because of an erosion threat to their bridge spanning the Cockfighter Creek following the recent heavy rains and local flooding. On Saturday the Bulga…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department's Immediate Respite® to Mayor's Appeal Dunolly Bridge Threat Examined
Friday's urgent telegrams from the Mayor of Singleton (Alderman John McGrogan) regarding the serious threat to Dunolly Bridge caused by crumbling river banks in the immediate vicinity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton's Worst Flood Sufferers Jerry's Plains and Doyle's Creek Are Still Cut Off Nightmare Roads and Broken Bridges Challenge to Shire and State
About 400 people living at Jerry's Plains and Doyle's Creek are still cut off, their bridges and causeways under water or destroyed by the recent floods and heavy rain. Unless urgent and exceptional measures are taken NOW these people are faced…
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SPA (Belgium), July S.—Sydney motor cyclist Harry Hinton, riding a standard Norton, finished sixth in the world’s fastest motor cycle race…
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Percy James Teller district manager for Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and West Australia for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Got Drunk on Tram Fares
SYDNEY, Monday.—After collecting £7/16/8 in fares, a tram conductor left the tram in the city and then got drunk on the money. Central…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Goods for Flooded Kempsey Pass Over Inundated Lines Precision Operation By Railways
Carefully planned precision operation on the part of technical officers of the New South Wales Railway Department was to-day responsible for requirements for flooded Kempsey passing over inundated railway lines at Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Railway to Be Sought
CESSNOCK, Monday. â Cessnock branch of the Australian Labour Party yesterday decided to urge the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aberdeen - Segenhoe Road Flood Damage
Over 100 yards of the Aberdeen-Segenhoe Road has been washed out by the flooded Hunter River near "Russley" homestead. The river eroded the banks and encroached on to the road bank during the first flooding three weeks ago. The second rush of water took the banks away and undermined the road, eventually dropping the roadway into the river, as our…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Toll Of U.S. Road Deaths
NEW YORK, July 4.—American pleasure-seekers were killed on the roads at the rate of nearly one every 13 minutes during the first three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Lift Played Havoc With Lake Road Local A.L.P. Move
Mr. A. Johnson told a meeting of the Cessnock branch of the A.L.P. on Sunday that the coal lift had played havoc with the Lake Road and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constable's Tragic Death at Scone Motor Cycle Collides With Lorry
When the motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor lorry at the northern end of Scone on Sunday afternoon, Constable Allan James Fuller (27), Police Constable, of Tamworth, was killed almost instantly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Fined On Two Charges
Malcolm Douglas Brazier, 27-years-old shop assistant, of 12 Short-st., Lorn, was fined £7/10/ When he appeared in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flag Bridge
The members of Scots Presbyterian Guild are holding the first flag bridge party in Scots’ Church Hall to-morrow, at 2.30…
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SINGLETON, Wed. —Mr. Darcy Rose, M.L.A, yesterday inspected the Dunolly bridge and adjoining ramp, which are falling away due to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oakhampton Road
Kearsley Shire Council decided to spend £225 on draining, grading and gravelling the road from Maitland boundary to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work On Warkworth Bridge Tomorrow
Following a conference at Warkworth this morning between representatives of the Main Roads Board. Patrick…
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CESSNOCK, Wed.—The engineer (Mr. L. Grattan) reported to a meeting of Kearsley Shire Council last night that the heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Dead in Road Smash
Two men were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a car and a truck on Dubbo-Coonamble road…
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