Extracts From ‘Mercury’ Files 50 Years Ago August 26, 1904 Belmore Bridge Gauge
Attention has previously been drawn to the damaged condition of the river gauge at the Belmore Bridge, but so…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1954
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Hit-Run Motor Drivers
SINGLETON: Mr. John McGregor, president of Singleton branch of the Road Safely Council, commenting on recent…
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CESSNOCK.—Cr. McDonald asked Kearsley Shire Council to replace brick walls at the railway bridge at…
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The B.H.P. yesterday started to tar seal three miles of the Morpeth-Largs Road. The Lower Hunter Shire…
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The Department of Motor Transport has advised Patrick Plains Shire Council that observations…
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Opposition to the construction of a new low-level bridge to replace the old bridge at Payne's Crossing was voiced by members at a meeting of Patrick Plains Shire Council yesterday. The Department of Main Roads in a letter to Kearsley Shire…
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A company, known as North-west Airways, is planning to establish an air service to link Muswellbrook with Sydney and north and north-western centres. The company will establish its headquarters in Muswellbrook. In his report to the Municipal Council on Wednesday, the Deputy Town…
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Following the success of the motorcycle race meeting earlier this year, the Cessnock Motorcycle Club and the Cessnock…
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A general meeting of the Cessnock Motor-cycle Club will be held at the Club Centre, in Vincent Street, on Sunday…
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Drivers of motor vehicles can set an example to other drivers by courtesy and unselfishness in their driving. By…
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A car was slightly damaged this morning when it collided with an electricity supply department jeep at the corner of…
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CANBERRA: Australian motor vehicle registrations for July were the second highest monthly figures ever…
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A well-known Newcastle boxer was taken off the Kempsey Mail train at Dungog on Monday by Dungog…
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A man and a woman were fined in Maitland court on Wednesday for having attempted to evade paying rail…
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Drivers of motor vehicles can set an example to other drivers by courtesy and unselfishness in their driving. By…
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A fettler, Bert Bailey, 54, of Rous-street, East Maitland, was injured on Saturday when he was run down by a coal…
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In pre-war days, the accident rate in both the metropolitan area and the country area remained reasonably constant. (In a foreward to this article, the…
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Mr. L. H. Putland, of Kars Springs, who has, for some time past, been moving in the direction of having a road constructed through the Cedar Brush at Sparkes Creek, thence on to Scone and district subscriptions to the Security Loan, which closed on Saturday, amounted to £23,070, against…
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With an area larger than Great Britain and a population of under 60,000, the Western Division of New South Wales presents unusual problems to those responsible for the planning, construction and maintenance of its road system. The Deparment of Main Roads, of course, is the authority concerned…
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Cessnock club members ore preparing to field a large entry in the two day trial, to be conducted by the Newcastle…
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