Request Refused Application By Sir Earle Page Improvements to Road
A request by Sir Earle Page for council assistance in the construction of culverts on the road to the Gorge, leading past his property, was dealt…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
1,208 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 61
Nymboida Shire Road Allocations £1820 New Truck to Be Purchased General Rate Same As Before
After fixing the general rate at in the £1, the same as the previous year, the Nymboida Shire Council yesterday approved of the shire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woman Becomes Manager Motor Transport Post Miss Phyllis Gurney
Miss Phyllis Gurney, assistant secretary of Airlines of Australia, Ltd., has been appointed manager of the New England Motor Co., which, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Leads Choked in Heat Wave Motorists in Trouble
The intense heat wave with which motorists in many parts of the eastern States had to contend, caused a considerable amount of carburation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Across the Desert On Balloon Tyres No Need for "Creepers" English Motorists Feat
It is not so many years ago that a French mechanised expedition provided front page news by negotiating sections of the dreaded Sahara Desert…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclist Injured Collision In Pound Street Car and Motor Cycle Involved
Frederick Albert Dobbin' Paine (19), whose parents live at Ashby, Maclean, but is at present residing in Queen street, Grafton, suffered abrasions,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harwood Shire February Meeting Departure of Engineer Broome's Head Road
The February meeting of the Harwood Shire Council was held on Thursday, there being present:--Councillors J. Wiblen (president), D. J. Maloney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Smash Engine Driver Killed Another Loses His Leg Collision in Queensland Brisbane
A passenger train and a shunting engine collided at Bundamba station, near Ipswich, to-day. One man was killed, two seriously injured, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →500 M.P.H. Secret Aeroplane Project London
According to "Reynolds News," Lord Nuffield is financing the construction of a secret aeroplane, which is expected to recapture the record for Britain with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Road Smash Two Killed at Shark Creek Bridge Two Critically Injured 12 in Maclean Hospital Dip Workers From Lismore
Two persons were killed and 14 others injured, two critically, when a contractor's lorry from Lismore, loaded with 20 men and a tractor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Smash 39 KILLED, 100 Injured. Barcelona
Thirty-nine were killed and a hundred injured when a train going down a hill laden with workmen crashed into a stationary waggon near Sarria tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety Certificates for Cars.--must Be Roadworthy. Sydney
A scheme to tighten up the inspection of motor cars will be submitted to the Cabinet by Col. Bruxner in the near future…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Roads From Glenreagh a Ratepayer's Views
Mr. D. C. McPherson, Tallawudjah Creek, writes:— In the report of last meeting of the Dorrigo Shire Council I notice that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety Campaign In U.S.A. a Motor Fatalities Decline
Thanks to the widespread "Safety" campaign in U.S.A., aimed at more courtesy and care by drivers of automobiles in that country, fatalities in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brownie Carslake May Train in Victoria. Perth
Brownie Carslake, 52-years-old Australian jockey, who is returning to England by the Strathaird, stated to-day that he may return to Victoria and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Sentenced Assault on Girl in Train. Sydney
Sentence of nine months' imprisonment was imposed on Stanley Reynold Swincer, 26, motor mechanic, at the Quarter Sessions to-day, on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Patrol Traffic Constables Utility Trucks with Wireless
Two constables from the metropolitan area have been appointed to each of the Grafton, Lismore, Glen Innes and Kempsey police stations for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Three E's" For Road Safety Engineering, Education and Enforcement. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
This month the flying motor patrol of the State highways by the new traffic police corps will be in operation. The motor trucks which they will use…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Straying Stock Orara Shire Complaints Council Favors Impounding Road Allocation Details
Complaints about stock straying on roads in the Orara shire resulted in the council, yesterday, passing a motion to impound animals found on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Smash Funerals of Victims Ten Still In Hospital Inquest Opens To-day
The inquest into the Shark Creek lorry crash tragedy, in which two men were killed and fifteen injured, will be opened at Maclean…
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