Woolgoolga Road Bitumen Surfacing
Work will start shortly on the bitumen surfacing of the Pacific highway from South Grafton to the 9 14 mile on the Woolgoolga road. The cost is…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
1,397 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 70
Toll Bar Road to Go
The Toll Bar road near Toowoomba, the steepest pinch on the Dividing Range, is to be eliminated. It is to be replaced early in the next financial…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bridge Hold Up Lifting Span Jams Long Queue Of Cars Steamer Delayed 3 HOURS
Traffic between Grafton and South Grafton was suspended for over two hours last night when the toe plate on the down river side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Guyra-Dorrigo Railway
A public meeting is to be held at Coff's Harbour within the next few weeks for the purpose of discussing the subject of the Dorrigo-Guyra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FINED £20 Drove Motor When Drunk Disqualified From Holding License for Three Years
In the first case to be heard under the amended motor traffic, law, John Davis was fined £20 and disqualified from holding a license for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Wheels Bolt Down Incline Shop Front Wrecked. Newcastle
When a chain holding them in position snapped, seven pairs of railway wheels fitted to axles and weighing 25cwt.. each rolled off a motor lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Passengers Protest. Newcastle
A novel means of expressing their displeasure at the overcrowding of a tram bound for Wallsend was adopted by relief work passengers to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor World News And Notes Front The N.R.M.A. Half a Million Cars a Year
For the first time in history British car and commercial vehicle production has touched the half-million mark in a year. For the twelve month's ended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →East-west Railway Tablelands To Coast Petition to the Premier
The Grafton Zone Publicity Committee of the North and North-West Belter Communication League have made arrangements for a public meeting to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Westward Ho" Col. Bruxner's Visit Deputation At Glen Innes Grafton-moree Railway Inverell
Following representations by the executive of the North and Northwest Better Communication League, the secretary. Mr. S. Hytten,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Aerodrome Racecourse May Be Used. Murwillumbah
The Murwillumbah Municipal Council decided to co-operate with the Tweed Shire Council in a move to resume the Tygalgah racecourse for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →2000 Years of Roads Science In Designing How to Avoid Accidents America Counts the Cost
End of the trail is in sight for the nondescript network called the American highway system, says an American writer, And "trail" it is,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Travelling Health Centre Motor Caravan for Care of Country Mothers and Babies
Soon the people of the distant Mallee places will see the big, new, buff-colored caravan, "the Baby Health Centre on wheels," travelling along…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Fettler Killed
Simon Flett. 42 a fettler of Dora-street Morisset was killed instantly on Thursday morning when his railway tricycle was struck by a Sydney-bound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Jumpers
Leonard Batkin (22), John Williams (21), John McPherson (48), William Henry Flyn (47) and Thomas Carter (18) were fined 30s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Civil Aviation S. Grafton Aerodrome New Hangar Wanted Deputation to Grafton Council
A request that the Grafton City Council should assist financially in the erection of a new hangar at the South Grafton aerodrome to replace that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opinions of Our Readers Yamba Road
Sir,--In the report of the Harwood Shire Council's meeting in Saturday's issue of the "Daily Examiner" it is stated, in response to a request from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warning to Motorists
Sergeant Blanchard asks us to warn motor lorry owners that they are required to have their names and addresses printed on the driving side…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Grafton Aerodrome
Alds. D. W. Macpherson, E. H. Chataway and W. R. Weiley were appointed delegates by the Grafton City Council on Monday night to confer with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All-glass Train On Tour Of Britain Glass As Decorative Medium
The first all-glass train designed by a Lancashire firm, which seeks to show the use of glass as a decorative medium, has started its 2000 miles tour…
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