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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1951

1,060 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 53

Motorcyclist Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 2

Robert Leece,22, of Tyrrel Stret, Newcastle, was injured early last night when he was thrown from his motor cycle at…

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Saboteurs Dynamite Rail Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 5

On Sunday night saboteurs dynamited a coalfields' railway bridge near Huntly, Auckland, which is the centre of Waikato…

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Road Safety Councils Campaign

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 2

“The Road Safety Council has decided to change its approach to the road accident problem and use ‘shock’ treatment” Mr. J…

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Man Killed When Coal Truck Overturns Road Fatality on Hill

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 1

J. McKay was killed at about 10.30 a.m. yesterday when his 10ton Mack diesel truck overturned at the foot of the hill approaching…

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Railway Porte On Stealing Charges

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 2

After hearing evidence yesterday in a charge of stealing laid against a railway porter, Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., commented that the evidence of the principal witness for the prosecution and of the defendant were so completely…

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Trust Wants Dunolly Bridge Survey

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 2

The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust decided yesterday to ask the Minister for Conservation, Mr. Weir,…

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School Road Safety Patrol Work Praised

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 1

Wholehearted police support for the Hunter Street Primary Schòol Boys' Road Safety Patrol, has won praise [?] all sections of the community. Parents and teachers alike hail this new…

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Ignoring Restrictions On BridgeSerious Effect

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 4

Repair to the damaged piers of Belmore Bridge are proceeding satisfactorily, but the work being [?] and,…

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Women And Dogs Live In Tram Shed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police will avict two women and a girl who are living in Eddy Avenue tramshed, opposite Central Railway…

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Road From Singleton to Windsor

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1951 · page 2

QUIRINDI: Aid, A. F. Hennaford started a good move when he secured the unanlmeus agreement of the Qulrlndt Municipal…

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Motor Cyclist Killed

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1951 · page 1

A young man Michael John [?] is of Bwan-street, Morpeth, died in the ambulance on the way to hospital early this…

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Stole Motor Cycle Wheel

Maitland Mercury · Sunday 6 May 1951 · page 5

Pleading guilty to a charge stealing on September 30 a motor cycle wheel, veined at £10, Paul Gilchrist Marsh, 21, a miner…

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Commissioner’s Report On Railway Working

Maitland Mercury · Sunday 6 May 1951 · page 5

The Commissioner for Railways (Mt. F. C. Garside) his report to the Minister for Transport on the operations of the Department of Railways for the year ended June 30 last, said there were many interruptions to the department’s…

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British Motor Production

Maitland Mercury · Sunday 6 May 1951 · page 5

Production by the British motor Industry Inst year increased by 25 per cent, but exports Increased. by 55 per cent…

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Diesel Cars For East-West Railway CANBERRA

Maitland Mercury · Sunday 6 May 1951 · page 5

Three d[?] rall cars and four carriages which arrived in Sydney from Am[?] on Friday are the [?] consignment of £4,500/…

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Motor Ship in Danger

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: A report was recoded to-day stating that the 800-ton motor vessel Kelonos is stuck fast on a real at Kandan, New…

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Railway Picnic

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 May 1951 · page 1

Quite a large number of members, their wives and children attended the loco picnic, held at Blackalls' Park. This was the first occasion that…

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Fall From Train

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 2

Mrs. Leokadia Sulkowski, 26, of Greta migrant camp, who was found unconscious on the railway line near Waratah on…

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Malayan Road Development

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 6

Malayan road developments, on Which work has already, commenced, are to cost £ I5,000,000 sterling. Most important of the Projects…

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More Revenue Wanted For Roads

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 2

Anger at the state of New South Wales reads and a determinatlon to press for more revenue for roads were the keynotes of a conference…

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