Huge Expenditure Care of Our Roads Many Millions Spent
OF all the financial transactions in this State, the money expended in road construction is probably on the most satisfactory footing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1937
2,049 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 3 of 103
Scenic Roads Opening Up the Zigzag Hassan's Walls to Brown's Gap
Estimates and plans for the construction of a scenic road to the Zigzag, and also that to link Hassan's Walls Lookout and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Bridge Takes Six Years With Staff of 42 to Paint
Painting the Sydney Harbor Bridge is a six years' job, which keeps 42 men busy all the time. Each year it costs about £16,000, and about 4200…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crushed to Death Beneath Motor Bus MELBOURNE, Monday. a Three-year-old girl
A named Birnie, was run over and killed by a motor bus in front of her home at Armond…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Average Speed Aid to Motorists Ingenious Instrument
THE average motorist finds it rather a tricky matter to calculate his average speed on a trip during which speeds have varied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Railway Excursions To and From Sydney
WORD has been received from the Secretary for Railways of another series of excursion trains to Sydney, that is in addition to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Can't Get Work On New Railway
A Wellington message reads:- Disappointment and resentment is felt by local unemployed, at their failure to secure Jobs on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rate Increased Abercrombie Shire Council's Decision Improvements to By-Roads
At yesterday's meeting of the Adercromble Shire Council it was decided to inform the Department of Local Government that the Council was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist's Trouble Application For License Appeal Dismissed
The reversal of a previous decision made on November 16 in the Bathurst court saw George Edwin Johns (73) a retired school teacher of 14…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Picnic Commissioner's Unusual Action Towards Railway Contractor Dubbo
Although he has been a pumping contractor for the Hallway at Store Creek for over 20 years find has been grunted a picnic ticket in the years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Accidents Over 500 Killed Last Year
During last year 539 persons were killed in road accidents in New South Wales, an increase of 16 per cent. on the number of deaths in 1935…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured in Road Accident Doctor and Daughter. [?]
Dr. R. J. Tiltyard and his daughter, Miss Hope Tiltyard, were [?] injured to-day when a car driver by Miss Tiltyard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Out of "Plumb" Bell to Newnes Junction Road Shire Engineer's Difficulties
Construction of the Bell-Newnes Junction road by Blaxland Shire Council is proceeding. The engineer (Mr. H. C. Reid) has found, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Road Toll Increase Last Year Sterner Action Suggested SYDNEY
Despite the safety campaign and other means of reducing road accidents, the death roll has now achieved great proportions, and stern action…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.S.W. Road Deaths Rise. Nearly Two a Day. SYDNEY
Despite safety campaigns and other means of reducing road accidents, the death roll has now reached grave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Rilled Motor Cycle Crash Sydney
George A. Faulkner (42), of Yowie Bay, was killed this afternoon when his motor cycle and sidecar crashed over a culvert after striking a rut…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Third Test Many People Trampled Upon MELBOURNE
The report of the Health Commission, issued today, stated that after the gates at the Melbourne Cricket Ground were closed on the first day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Strike Fisher Works Seized Bitter Fight with Police Thousands Involved New York
Eight hundred strikers rioted at the Fisher bodyworks at Flint, yesterday, seizing the entire plant on the second floor, which they had occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Help for the Motorists a Talk About Nuts and Bolts
When it is necessary to grip the threaded portion of a bolt in a vice, care must always be taken to avoid damaging the threads. As a rule,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work on New Railway
Work has been started on the Sutherland-Cronulla electric railway. Seventy-six men are now employed, and the number will be increased…
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