Much Damage To Shire Roads Tribute to Staff
Extensive damage to roads throughout the Shire area was caused by heavy and almost continuous rain during December and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,587 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 80
S.A. Train Stoppage 40-Hour Week Demand
ADELAIDE, Tuesday: All South Australian trains will stop running at midnight Sunday when members of the A.R.H. throughout the State stop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corsets Saved Woman From Severe Injury Denison Bridge Accident Glanmire Grazier Fined
A woman said in the Bathurst Court yesterday that if it had not been for a strong pair of corsets she were at the time of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Interfered with Road Repairs "Boree Shire Doing Its Best"
Although rain had interfered, Boree Shire Council was doing all in its power to improve roads to take the heavy wheat lorries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manildra Magazine Heavy Storm Deluged Manildra District Creeks, Roads Flooded in Sunday Night's Storm
Manildra and district was struck by a violent thunderstorm on Sunday night about 9 o'clock, accompanied by heavy winds which rendered travelling dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia’s First Motor Car
Colonel Harley Tarrant constructed Australiaâs first motor car in 1897. Driving another of his own cars…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Huge Sum From Petrol Tax Protest By Motoring Bodies
Official figures of petrol to receipts and disposals show that, despite the dollar cute, Australian motorists will have provided over £8,000,000 for Federal consolidated avenue by the end of this financial year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Weekly Motoring Review Danger of Level Crossings Need For Planning
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shire Road Aid
SYDNEY, Wednesday.â The Minister for Works and Local Government, Mr. Cahill, said tonight that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Smash MONTREAL
Five persons were killed and 44 injured--four seriously, when the Canadian National Railways Express crashed into the rear of another…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mudgee Train Service Endangered
Severe damage, which could have resulted in a serious rail accident, with great loss of life, was done to railway safe…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Victoria Faces Crisis Threat of Train Stoppage
MELBOURNE Wednesday. â Melbourne faces a hold-up of its electric train service tomorrow Employees of Newport…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Footway Needed Over Denison Bridge Protection for Pedestrians
Police evidence in a Bathurst Court case, on Tuesday that Denison Bridge was a "death trap to pedestrians" caused considerable comment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Grants for Shires Minister Gives Details
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Cahill) said that he had allocated to shire councils the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lyndhurst Council Expects Grant Road Maintenance Work
Councillor J. A. Innes, president of the Lyndhurst Shire Council, said at the last meeting of the council at Blayney that the council hoped soon to get a £3000 grant for road work, mostly in C…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Plan for Road Work Decisions At Meeting
Orange City Council at its meeting on Tuesday night decided to surface or re-condition a number of roads in the municipality with bitumen in March…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Approximately £5,500 To Be Spent On Portland Roads And Footpaths
Approximately £5,500 will be spent on roads and footpaths in Portland "as soon as possible" when the new works programme is put into operation. At yesterday's monthly meeting of Blaxland Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Model Traffic Town Teaching Road Sense to the Young
LONDON, Wednesday: Tobbenham, a north London suburb, has re-opened recently a model traffic area to make the children of the borough…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cycling Boom in West Mudgee Riders Show Their Skill New Controlling Body Formed
When the representatives of various motor cycle clubs foregathered for the old English trial at Orange on Sunday last, it was unanimously decided to form a Western District Centre of the A.C.U. of N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Melbourne Tram Strike Headache for Hollway Federal Intervention Suggested
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The Premier (Mr. Holloway[?] week announced that he was going to put the striking trammen in their place and that his Government would break the strike, now…
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