Woolgoolga Road. Board Refuses to Accept Tender for Second Section
Twice tenders have been called for construction of the second section of the Woolgoolga road deviation (State Highway), in the first…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
1,966 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 99
Jetty Drainage Scheme. Letter From Railway Department
A letter front the Railway Commissioners, read at the shire council meeting on Friday, informed the councillors that the C mmissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorist's Thrilling Escape
Mr. H. Carstens had an amazing escape when a goods train ran down the car he was driving at a level crossing at Raleigh, and smashed the motor to matchwood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Body on Railway Young Woman Decapitated. Melbourne
Ruby Florence Allison, 22, commercial artist, was decapitated by a goods train at Box Hill to-day. It is stated that deceased had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hit and Run Motorist Cyclist Severely Injured. Melbourne
When a motor lorry hit a motor cycle and sidecar on Saturday night near Casula, on the Great Southern Road, Stanley Hannell, 27, the rider of the cycle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatally Injured in Underground Railway. Sydney
Phillip Pullinger, 45, of Coogee, who fell from a platform in the shaft at the underground railway tunnel below George street on Friday, died in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Trams. on Harbor Bridge. Sydney
There will be no trams on the Harbor Bridge, according to Dr. Bradfield. Residents on North Shore remote, from the railway system will, therefore, continue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Ferry Swallow
The train ferry, Swallow, will be taken to Sydney early next month for a general overhaul, and will be replaced by the Induna, which will ply regularly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rail Motor Train Derailed by Bullock. Crookwell
The Goulburn to Crookwell rail motor train was derailed yesterday evening owing to a collision with a bullock. Although nobody was injured it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accumulating Funds Main Roads Board Criticised. Lismore
At a meeting of Terania Shire Council it was stated that the Main Roads Board organisation had broken down with the result that instead of the board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cricket Railwaymen's Cricket Match
A team chosen from the staff of the office of the District Superintendent of Railways, South Grafton, will leave on Friday for Newcastle, where, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists Hoaxed
Motorists at Malvern (Victoria) during Christmas week were perturbed by the directions and orders of a policeman who was apparently on duty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missionary Shot Dead Arabs Attack Motorists. Basra
One hundred wabahis who were hidden in desert scrub, ambushed two motors in which Charles Crane, ex-American Ambassador in China. and three others,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hectic Time Two Youths Arrested Train Car and Boat Trip. Gundagai
Two youths, Louis Dryden and Ray Slater, were remanded to Yaks Police Court to-day on a charge of having stolen a motor car valued at £550 on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RODEO Skilful Riding Motor Cycling Events Good Sport at the Showground
A crowd estimated at between 600 and 700 people, were well catered for at the Grafton Showground last night, when an excellent programme was staged by Tom…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seventeen Killed Tram and Bus Collide. Vancouver
A Bellevue (Ohio) message says seventeen persons were killed, including four women and fifteen were taken to hospital after an electric tram crashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman at Gap Rescued by Tram Conductor. Sydney
A woman, who obviously intended to throw herself over The Gap at Watson's Bay late last night was rescued in the nick of time by a tram conductor who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coff's Harbor Aeroplane Visit
Pilot Rex Bowden, accompanied by Mechanic Ward, landed in his aeroplane on the Coff's Harbor Aerodrome from Toowoomba on Wednesday at midday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Marred by Bad Roads
Armidale "Express" says:—"One of the most enjoyable of northern motor tours and one that embraces the worst roads at the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Main Road
The delay in the completion of the road contracts is a matter which is concerning Fernbrook residents. The heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday…
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