Main Roads Grant
Under the forms of a Local Government circular issued on January 29 last, the Shire Council applied for a special main roads grant of £500…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1924
195 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 3 of 10
The Excursion Train
The Easter excursion pulled up at Katoomba, and a particular passenger boarded her. He was not overfond of excursion condition, but the…
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Mr. E. R. Brickett, manager of the Hydro Majestic, Medlow, in the course of an interview with an "Echo" representative, remarked…
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The problem of the maintenance of our main roads is one that cries for a solution more and more loudly each day. Everyone is agreed that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Modern Hero Seeks Mountains Road Dies in the Attempt
The deplorable condition of the road over the Blue Mountains, has moved a well-known motorise to a "tragedy" in 44 spasms, ending in…
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During the Easter festivities an exceptionally large number of visitors assembled at the "Hydro Majestic," Medlow. prominent among…
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In my previous article I considered some of the objections to a toll system to defray the cost of reconstructing the Main Western Road…
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Recently a Government officer has been stationed on the Grat Western Road, at Leura, jotting down particulars of passenger and vehicular…
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It having come to the notice of the Chief Traffic inspector that many owners of motor vehicles have not complied with the amended…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Christmas Collision Motor Man Mulct License to Be Marred
A sequel to an accident which occurred in Lurline Street, Katoomba, last December, in which a horse's leg was broken as a result of a…
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A spectacular runaway, resulting in serious damage, created much excitement in [?] Street on Monday afternoon. Just on six o'clock…
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Sir,—I read with interest the articles in "Echo" on the above allimportant question, and with all others, I would like some solution…
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The death occurred, suddenly, yesterday, of Arthur John ("Jock") Brideson, a well-known member of the motor world of Wentworth Falls…
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Almost on the spot where the big railway smash occurred about a your ago, the 6.10 p.m. goods train, from Eskbank, comprising 13 trucks of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Motor Gathering "Fiat's" Twenty-fifth Anniversary
On 25th instant, the great Flat Company, of Turin, Italy, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the production of the first Flat car…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About People Motorists Strike Trouble Lunatic, Criminal, or Who?
Kelth MacGregor has taken over the secretaryship of the Katoomba Tennis Club. Mrs Bell, late of "St. Kilda," has Motorists on the Leura-Katoomba main road got right down to tacks on Thursday, and the air was hazy with the bluest kind of curses that…
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The Minister for Local Government, the Hon. J.C. L.Flizpatrick, has decided to make further grants in connection with the above road…
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Sir,-The question of suitable metal for road making having been discussed at Katoomba Council meeting, as reported in Echo," of the…
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Ald. Soper has given notice that he will move for a loan for road purposes, the amount of which will probably bo not less than £15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hazelbrook Bridge "Memorial" and "Forde" to Be Opened To-morrow
After three years of strenuous work, the Memorial bridge (or, as many call it, Forde's bridge), at Hazelbrook, will be dedicated…
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