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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1937

3,526 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 177

Motor Yachting Interesting Test To-morrow's Events at Toronto Hoo-oo and Four New Boats

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 21

An interesting race to be contested tomorrow will be that in which Hoo-oo, a 33 m.p.h. speedboat, will meet the four new scratch boats. Hoo-oo developed…

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At Cardiff Railway Workshops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 9

Either new market must be found, or old ones worked over to the limit, if capitalism is to continue. There is intense imperialist rivalry, but really no new…

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Railways and Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 10

The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan), referring at a civic reception in Taree to the damage done to rail-roads in floodtime through lack of…

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New Danger Flood in Finke River Railways Still Blocked Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 11

Many passengers who left Adelaide by train his early as Monday arrived at Broken Hill this morning. The express, which reached Broken Hill this morning,…

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Engine Hospital The Cardiff Railway Workshops Busy Industrial Scene

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 9

Big buildings, rusty engines, men moving from place to place, locomotive wheels, a model engine on top of a high flag-pole, and neat rose gardens…

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Railway Trespassers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 13

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday before Messrs. M. J. D. Austin and A. H. Ribee, Js.P., Robert Power, 47, Jack Woods, 31, and Sdney Smith,…

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Did Not Stop Motorist Who Struck Cyclist SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 10

A bit-run motorist is blamed for serious injuries to Roy Lloyd, 37, of Parramatta, to-night. Lloyd was riding a bicycle through…

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Commodore's Day at Toronto Royal Motor Yacht Club's Programme

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 8

The Royal Motor Yacht Club will provide a programme of aquatic and speed craft races for Commodore's Day at Toronto on January 30…

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Mine Shaft Mystery Still Unsolved Search for Woman Given Lift by Motorist Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 5

In their State-wide search for the woman companion of the supposed victim of the Wedderburn mine shaft…

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Bridge Over Hunter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 20

A bridge is to be built over the Hunter River at Melville. Its cost—estimated at £3400—will be shared equally by the Kearsley and Bolwarra Shires and…

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Waterloo Bridge Almost Gone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 4

In less than three months—early summer—waterloo Bridge will last gone. Work on removing the last three piers of the bridge is about to begin, and daily…

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Maitland-road Methodist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 13

AT 11 a.m., at Maitland-road Methodist church, the preacher will be Mr. Arthur Buxton. At 7 p.m. Mr. J. T. Tarn will preach. At the evening service the choir will sing an anthem…

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Plans for Cyprus Strategic Air Base Aerodrome Construction (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 12

"Plans are rapidly nearing completion," says the Cyprus correspondent of the "Morning Post," "for making Cyprus a great British strategic air centre,…

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N.Z. Yearlings to Train Here Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

Two yearlings purchased this week in New Zealand, will be trained at Randwick by J. H. Abbs. The Hunting Song—Miss Edna colt,…

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Roads Board and Council Kerb Pump Dispute at Muswellbrook Muswellbrook

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 2

A discussion took place this week at Muswellbrook Municipal Council meeting on the decision of the Main Roads Board that no more kerbside…

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A Flattener Road Tax Upon Steam Roller CUDAL

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

The prospect of paying £84 in taxation if an old steam roller, is driven 20 miles faces its new owner. The Boree Shire Council recently sold the roller as being no longer fit…

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Left Rails Electric Train Carriage Wrecked Canterbury Line Blocked Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 11

Although a carriage was wrecked, nobody was injured when an electric train left the rails at Canterbury this morning. Thousands of people were late for…

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Boy Struck on Road Fight to Save His Life Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

While doctors in St. George Hospital are striving desperately to keep alive a boy aged about 14, the police are…

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Motor Yachting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 18

Newcastle branch of Royal Motor Yacht Club's programme of racing events, on Toronto Bay…

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Railways' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 15

The Secretary to the Port Waratah branch of the "Australian Railways Union (Mr. I. Hadfield) has submitted to head office the following resolution, adopted…

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