Local & General News Motorcyclist Hurt
Elton Lindsay, 22, of Barclay Street. Mayfleld, was found to be suffering with a severely lacerated wound…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
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Plaques Presented To Local Finns For Service To General Motors-Holden's
Oxydised sterling silver commemorative plaques for their 25 years continuous association with General…
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Sir.—This road is about 50 years old, and has not progressed as much as it should over that number of years. The County Council is planning for 50 years…
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The Joint Coal Board advised Kearsley Shire Council on Tuesday night that it had approved of additional grants…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Maitland Deputy Coroner (Mr. V. R. Jenkins) at the…
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In the first 15 days of January, 26 people were killed on New South Wales Roads, Supt. W. E. Salmon said yesterday…
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The Lands Department has told Muswellbrook Shire Council that council's request that a public road be made…
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Councillor W. J. Smith reported to Wallarobba Shire Council last Tuesday that the approaches to Bandon Grove…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ratepayer Granted £10 Annually for Road Repairs
Wallarobba Shire Council, last Tuesday, on the motion of Cr. W. J. Leake, decided to grant Mr. Allan C. Burley…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallarobba Shire Meeting: Protest Against Main Roads Department's Reduced Allocation Council in Hopeless Position Regarding Essential Work
Wallarobba Shire Council last Tuesday decided to emphatically protest to the Department of Main Roads against the drastic reduction in the Council's 1953 maintenance programme…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women Train For Work On Land
Farmers’ wives in Britain have a traditional interest in dairy work and, in spite of the development of specialised…
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Mrs. Shirley Witherspoon. 18, of Fourth-street, Weston, received abrasions to both legs and thighs, and shock,…
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DUNGOG: Wallarobba Shire Council will protest to the main Roads Department against a reduction from £8801 to £5585 in council’s maintenance programme allocation…
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QUIRINDI: How Tamarang Shire Council had “missed the bus” with regard to surfacing a further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Duplication Resumption No Official Announcement
Rumor is rife that work of completing the railway duplication to Muswellbrook will be resumed at an early date. The "Chronicle" learns that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Sets New Speed Record
GUNNEDAH: Motor-cyclist Jack E[?]ret broke the Australian land speed record of 1[?]9.39 miles an hour on a…
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Mr. Baker, a sawmiller from Parramatta, and start, have resumed timber getting in the Putty district after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hexham Bridge Approach
Newcastle City Council will ask the Department of Main Roads to build a new approach to Hexham Bridge from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Arrested on Train
Early last Friday morning, two men travelling on the northbound Kempsey Mail were arrested at Dungog by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident on Bandon Grove Road
A Raymond Terrace man escaped injury when the semitrailer he was driving struck a small bridge on the…
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