Notes and Comments Main Roads Bill
The Katoomba Daily · Monday 1 September 1924 · page 2
Katoomba Council has not expressed any opinion regarding the provisions of the Main Roads Bill so far. A special meeting is shortly to be called for the purpose. The opinions expressed by other local government bodies throughout the State have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Accident Two Cars Collide on the Bathurst Road Near Leura Passenger Injured
The Katoomba Daily · Wednesday 3 September 1924 · page 2
According to a report made Constable Sadler, a serious collis[?] between two motor cars occurred near Leura on the evening of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Discusses the Main Roads Bill Proposed Inclusion of Katoomba In County Cumberland Area Colonel Bruxner's Amendment Regarded as a Trap
The Katoomba Daily · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 1
A special meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the provisions of the Main Roads Bill, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Road to Megalong
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 3
Now that the Blackheath Council has offected certain improvemtns to that portion of Megalong road within its area, the residents, apprectating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Main Roads Bill Colonel Bruxner's Amendment Considered by Councils Shire Approves
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 1
Blue Mountains Shire Council met specially on Tuesday morning, to discuss a phase of the Great Western Road problem that had in it the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Collision Doctor's Car Stranded Sneak-thief Takes Battery
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 7
On Wednesday evening, two cars, driven by Dr. Raymond Allen, of Bodington, and Clifford D. O'Rourke, of Bell, respectively, collided on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Young Man Killed Another Injured While Climbing Steps of Goods Train
The Katoomba Daily · Saturday 6 September 1924 · page 1
Three young men while travelling from Sydney to Queensland climbed on the steps of the brakevan of a goods train while it was passing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Main Roads Bill Amendment Carried Little Effect on Katoomba Blue Mountains Shire Benefits Concrete Road Foreshadowed
The Katoomba Daily · Monday 8 September 1924 · page 1
By 3 8 voces to 27 the amendment to the Main Roads Bill, moved by Colonel Bruxner was carried in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Noisy Motor Cycles
The Katoomba Daily · Monday 8 September 1924 · page 2
Sir.--Isn't it time the authorities responsible took some action regard to the motor bikes which and down Katoomba Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes and Comments Main Roads Bill
The Katoomba Daily · Tuesday 9 September 1924 · page 2
There is talk among city Nationalists of attempting to wreck the Main Roads Bill owing to the inclusion of the Blue Mountains main road with those of the County of Cumberland. It would certainly appear that the bill is in for a stormy passage. The whole trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"I Bumped Some One!" Drunken Motorist Runs Into Party of Pedestrians Seriously Injures Young Lady Wentworth Falls Sensation
The Katoomba Daily · Wednesday 10 September 1924 · page 1
"I remember bumping someone, and I did not stop because I couldn't." When Thomas William Smith, a motor driver at Wentworth Falls,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Notes and Comments Motor Hogs
The Katoomba Daily · Wednesday 10 September 1924 · page 2
It is as well perhaps for the safety ol pedestrians that the police of Katoomba and adjoining districts keep an ever-watchful eye on the motor traffic. There are many people, who once they get behind the driving wheel, develop what might be termed a speed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Main Roads Bill Metropolitan Members Ject to Katoomba's, Inclusion and Threaten to I Wreck Bill
The Katoomba Daily · Thursday 11 September 1924 · page 2
There is going to be dirty word the Main Roads Bill says the "[?] Guardian." The log-rollers are trying to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Megalong Road
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 September 1924 · page 7
In referring to the Megalong Road on Tuesday evening, Aid Collter intimated that during the course of a conversation with Mr. Mark Foy be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Main Roads Bill Is It in Peril? Rumours of Modification
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 September 1924 · page 4
Cr. P. Wilson, president of the R.M.S. Council, writes pointing out Hint "Echo's" detail in the division of Mr. Bruxner's amendment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muddled Motorist Menaces Human Life Popular Girl Injured
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 September 1924 · page 8
While Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hogg and their four-year-old child were walking over O'Kelly's bridge, Wentworth Falls, in company with Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Road Hog
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 September 1924 · page 8
Accidents and casualties, caused by car drivers who have a mania for speeding are becoming a daily occurrence in both city and country…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A "Dodge" Record Motor Truck Test
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 September 1924 · page 4
What wes suppose constitutes a long-distance record of the removal of a load of furniture and effects has just been successfully accomplished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Smash Ford Car Is Badly Damaged by Reckless Driver of a Dodge Evening Excitement
The Katoomba Daily · Monday 22 September 1924 · page 1
Just about the time that shopkeepers and business folk were returning home after the day's work a Dodge car came careering down…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Katoomban in Canada Orchards and Motor Cars Ten-hour Working Day
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 September 1924 · page 2
A very interesting letter has been received by Mr. Gordon Dugan from Mrs. E. Dickinson, late of "wain court," waratah Street, Katoomba,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →