Roads Impassable Queensland Flood Water New England Highway Cut Off Brisbane
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 7
As a result of heavy rain, many arterial roads from Brisbane to country centres have become impassable. The North Coast road is closed to traffic right…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Charges Rail Station Tries to Enter Dining Room Cootamundra
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 5
In the early hours of this morning a goods train, with loaded wheat and empty sheep trucks, probably 500 tons in all, was being shunted into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Battle on Bridge Would-be Suicide Restrained Made Two Attempts Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 1
A dramatic story of a struggle on the Harbor Bridge footway and of a returned soldier's two alleged attempts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A London Letter Slang and the Dictionary—Use of Water in Scotland—New Roman Road Discovered—Romance and a Ring LONDON, November 23
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 3
"Debunk" "Biump Off" "Wow" and "Wiscerack" are now safe in the dignified fold of the Oxford English Dictionary The new supplement a compilation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Systems Corporate Management Premiers to Discuss Transport Conference Likely CANBERRA
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 7
Among the subjects listed for discussion at the Premiers' Conference next ninth is that of transport, concerning which the Commonwealth railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. T. SCANLON Stationmaster Retires 43 Years in Railway Service
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 8
Mr. Thomas Scanlon, who retired from the position of stationmaster at Hamilton on December 30 had a service of 43 years in the Railway Department. He joined…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Marooned Skiers Motor-cars Reach Village NICE, January 4
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 8
A number, of the 300 skiers who were murconed in the village of Beuil, which had been isolated by ice and snow, were rescued to-day by motor-cars. Army…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mayfield Tram Extension Association's Efforts Bear Fruit Further Steps Taken
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 4
The efforts of the Mayfield West Citizens' Association in agitating for the commencement of the work of extending the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Motor Cars Were Imported Huge Increase in the Figures Canberra
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 5
Evidence of the amazing recovery of Australia's buying power last year is given in the 1933 motor car import figures made available by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Everson Road Race
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 6
The Newcastle District League Cycling Club advanced its Everson point score competition on Saturday afternoon with a three-mile road race over the Adamstown-Kahibah turn-off course…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caught by Floods Motorists and Campers North Coast Inundated Grafton
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5
Torrential rain in the Rappville district has resulted in considerable areas of farming and grazing lands being inundated. Crops have been damaged,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Yacht Club Lake Macquarie Events
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 2
The Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club advanced the point-score competition fur cruisers on Saturday, when Mr. Bert Bailey's Bellive scored…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Manufacturer's Title London, January 6
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 6
Sir William Morris, the motor manufacturer, who was raised to the peerage in the New Year honours, will take the title of Baron Nuffield, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mayfield Tram Extension
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 4
Mayfield West Citizens' Association is hopeful, following on its recent activities, of having a start made with the work of extending the Mayfield tram to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cars Halted Nowra
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7
Torrential rain over the Shoal-haven River area caused a rise of 20 feet at Burrier yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bad State of Road at Minmi Residents Protest
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 7
In complaining of the bad state of the Doghole-road to Duckenfield No. 5 colliery, a Minmi resident, writing to the Tarro Shire Council, pointed out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attack by Bandits Chinese Train Raided Five Casualties Shanghai
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1
The passenger train on the Tientsin-Pukow railway was attacked to-day by bandits who obtained a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missile Through Window Boys Use Train As Target Dangerous Practice
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 3
The window of a train from Dungog was shattered yesterday morning by either a bullet or a stone, as the train was passing through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transfer of Lake Road Suggestion by Chamber of Commerce
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 9
A suggestion to transfer the Tarro Shire portion of the Lake-road to Kearsley Shire, owing to the failure of the former body to keep the road…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Raging Flood in the Snowy River People Marooned on Roof Tops Waters Swirl Over Flat Lands Bridge Swept Away Melbourne
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1
Thundering down from the vast watersheds of the Australian Alps, the Snowy River has burst its banks and spread…
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