Money for Roads
Nambucca Shire Council, at a special meeting, attended by Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., in November last, decided to borrow £3000 for road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1937
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The Bridge
A true adventure story of the Snider armed savages of the New Hebrides. Scenery and location and life of the islanders described, all true to life. A shot rang out--echoed and reechoed. Wykeham stood surprised; his…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →General News Improvements to N.z. Aerodrome
Further improvements costing £63,000 will be made to the New Plymouth aerodrome, New Zealand, within next few months, it was announced by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →56,323 IDLE General Motors Strike Tear Gas Disperses Marchers. Detroit
A conference of General Motors and union failed to materialise again, but after an all-day meeting between the strategy board of the union and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Setback to Lang Rebels Victorious Railway Union Ballots. Sydney
Rebel candidates had an overwhelming victory in the annual election of officers of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Railways' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Negligent Driving Charge Collision Near Bridge Approach Defendant Fined £5
At the Grafton Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Patrick Sullivan was charged with having negligently driven a motor car in Bent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blood on Road Mine Shaft Mystery a Fresh Development. Melbourne
A fresh development in the wedderburn mine shaft mystery to-day was the statement by a local resident that he had seen bloodstains on Calder…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Insurance Queehsland Act
The vexed question of universal coverage against third party risks has been practically solved by a new Act in Queensland, to be known as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coff's Harbor Trespassing on Railway
On Friday morning last two men. Alfred Leslie Dacey and George Eric Auld, whom Constable H. A.. McDonald, of Coff's Harbor, discovered on top of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forced Down New Zealand Airmen Long Tramp Across Country. Wellington (N.z.)
After tramping across rugged, bushclad country since Friday, spending three nights in the open, the missing airmen, Wilson and Timi Potaka,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Window Smashed to Stop Train
Because of the absence of communication cords on Tasmanian trains, Mr. F. Gordon, of Hobart, had to smash a carriage window to attract the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General Collision on Bridge
A car driven by Mr. F. Foster, of Little Ryan street, South Grafton, and a motor lorry owned by Messrs. Campbell Bros., of Cangai, came into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Deaths 539 in Nm. in 1936 103 Higher Than 1935 2608 Accidents in Three Months Sydney
During Christmas week there were 19 deaths due to road accidents, or seven more than the total for the corresponding week of 1935, while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle Smash at Lismore
A motor cyclist and his passenger, who was riding on the pillion seat, were injured when a head-on collision occurred with a motor car in Dawson…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Busby's Flat Road Work
Sir,--Your editorial note to a letter published your "journal of the 7th inst; referring statement made by the Copmanhurst shire engineer, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Guilty, Sir". Lesson for Motorist The Quickest Way in Sydney Traffic Court
Experience has Taught many motorists at that the quickest and easiest way out of a minor charge in the Sydney Traffic Court is to plead guilty,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coffs Aerodrome
The Civil Aviation Board advised the Shire Council in a letter at last meeting that arrangements have now been completed whereby the Common…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work at Aerodrome
The contractors made a start yesterday on the improvements to be made to Coffs aerodrome, including Tencing and draining. Machinery was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brogo Bridge in Use
The N.R.M.A. touring department advises that the new reinforced concrete high-level bridge over the Brogo River on the Prince's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coronation Road Scheme?
Immediate plans for the construction of a series of Coronation roads in England that would mark the beginning of a new era in the history of highway…
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