Young Motor Cyclist Fined at Dungog
A young motor cyclist was fined £12 at Dungog Police Court on Tuesday for having carried a pillion passenger on his cycle whilst not holding…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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Train Services Reduced
Reductions in passenger train services between Cessnock, Maitland and Newscasts will become effective from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Drowned After Slip From Bridge
NEWCASTLE.—An eightyear-old boy, returning home from Sunday school yesterday morning, was drowned…
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Addressing the annual meeting of the Veteran Motorists' Association of Australia, the Comissioner…
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The Minister for Transport (Mr. F. W. Sheahan) said that the Department of Main Roads had ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Protests on Train Service Cuts Coy. Not Concerned With the Miners, Says Mayor
"The Company gets a good return from the transport of coal, but apparently is very little concerned with the welfare of those who win the coal," the Mayor (Ald. F. Hallam) said when the reduction in passenger services between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greyhound Racing Six Favorites Meet with Defeat. Narrow Margin Wins to Royal Road and Gay Limkrick. Law Man Just Fails to Head Forest Law
The defeat of six favorites from the nine events, narrow margin wins to Royal Road and Gay Limerick, and the fa[?]lure of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe Penalty For Motor Cyclist
KATOOMBA : A motor cyclist was flued £50 at Ka[?]mba court, and was disqualified from driving for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring in Heat Waves
Recent heat waves temporarily held up many hundreds of motor vehicles throughout N.S.W. through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aerodrome On Hexham Swamps
It was heartening to see that there was proposal to turn Hexham swamp into something more than marah…
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Kearsley Shire Council last night decided to protest to the Government against the [?]ment of services on South…
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When the northbound Tablelands Express pulled Into Maitland this morning It was met by a Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minister's Thanks For Road Building
The Minister for Lands, Mr. Renshaw, has written to the Shire Council thanking it for building a road in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Begin Work On Warkworth Road
Shire Council staff will begin the bituminous sealing of Warkworth Road on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Accident Ends Fatally. Mr. S. H. Mahony the Victim
Mr. Francis Stanley Mahony, licensee of the Durham Hotel. Wingen, passed away in the Maitland General Hospital late on Wednesday afternoon last, the result of injuries received when a utility truck he was driving on the New England Highway,…
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Members of Parliament representing northern coal-fields last night asked the Minister for Transport (Mr…
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Lower Hunter Shire, Council decided to co-operate with Wakool Shire Council in having representations made to…
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"The Budget presented by the Premier in the Legislative Assembly must cause very grave misgiving and indeed alarm, amongst all country…
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SYDNEY: The Lord Mayor (Ald. O’Dea) said today that only by a united effort could the number of road deaths be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire Road Expenditure
The Patrick Plains Shire Council spent £7,612/2/on Shire roads between January 1 and October 31…
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