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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

1,221 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 47 of 62

Conference Will Discuss Payner's Crossing Bridge

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 1

Members of the Shire Council will attend a conference on the Payne's Crossing bridge on Tuesday next, at…

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Lucerne Road Tax May Be Lifted

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 5

The Minister for Transport (Mr. Wetherell) will consider allowing wire-tied lucerne to be carried free of road tax…

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Grand Opera Takes to the Road

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 5

THE WEEK-END BEFORE LAST THE ARTS COUNCIL £7000 MOBILE THEATRE UNIT (GIFT OF THE JOINT COAL BOARD) WAS LOADED WITH COSTUMES AND EQUIPMENT AND…

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Blairmore Point Bridge Proposal U.H. Shire to Approach Muswellbrook Shire

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 12

Because of the dangerous nature of the Blairmor'e Point crossing of the Dartbrook Creek, the Upper Hunter Shire Council is taking steps with a view to having a bridge constructed…

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Motorist Fined £4 for Faulty Lights

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 3

A motorist who was alleged to have admitted to police that he had no excuse for defective…

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Diesel Train for North

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1954 · page 1

The Sydney-Brisbane Express would be replaced with a .modern steel, air-conditioned diesel-elecbric train, the…

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Big Increase in Money for Roads

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1954 · page 2

In the five financial years since the Menzies - Fadden , Government has been in charge…

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Commonwealth Aid Roads Grant £18,450 to Wallarobba Shire

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1954 · page 4

Wallarobba Shire Council has been allotted £18,450 from the Commonwealth Aids Road Grant…

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Wants deputation on Kulnura Road

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 September 1954 · page 3

Mr. D'Arcy Rose, M.L.A., had told the Patrick Plains Shire Council that 'Kearsley Shire Council had asked…

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Five Injured In Motor Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 September 1954 · page 2

Two men [?] injured when their car [?] on [?] road two miles from East[?]…

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Motor Cycle And Car CoIlided

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 September 1954 · page 2

[?] Coppins, 17, of David-street, Neath suffered an injury to his head and back when his motor cycle and a car…

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Three Injured on Roads

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1954 · page 3

Three people were injured in road accidents in Cessnock' on Friday night. All three were treated by Cessnock…

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Blairmore Point Bridge Proposal U.H. Shire to Approach Muswellbrook Shire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 September 1954 · page 1

Because of the dangerous nature of the Blairmore Point crossing of the Dartbrook Creek, the Upper Hunter Shire…

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Woman Driver Had Dizzy Turn Accident on Jerry's Plains Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 September 1954 · page 1

Nola B. George, of Jerry's Plains, was admitted to Brentwood Hospital yesterday, suffering from shock and abrasions received when her utility truck overturned on the Jerry's Plains road, about…

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Hit Bridge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 2

When the panel van he was driving crashed into Camberwell Bridge on Monday night, Mr. Henry…

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The Two Roads

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 4

We have often wondered why the roads of Wallarobba Shire are superior to those of other shires. But we wonder…

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Wallaroo Forest Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 3

The matter of the re-location of the road from the Highway to Clarence Town through the Wallaroo State…

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Classification Of Kulnura Road

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 2

SINGLETON: Patrick Plains Shire Council has been informed by Mr. D'Arcy Rose, M.L.A, that…

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Mail train driver placed on £100 bond

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 1

An engine driver who was found to be under the influence of liquor while in charge of the North-West Mail was placed on a £100 bond at the Singleton Quarter Sessions yesterday. He is George Henry Neal…

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James Theare Film Review "Road to Bali"

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 4

Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour have been going places in their "Road" pictures for quite some time…

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