Lift Bridge Over Richmond
Lismore Municipal Council has revived the proposal to build a lift bridge across the Richmond at Ballina street and to approach the Department of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
718 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 36
Lucky Escape When Motor Cycle Crashed Ninety Feet Below Road
Const. McGhie will remember last Saturday night week as the occasion of a most painful and unenviable accident, and also as his escape from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Safety First Committee Meeting OVER 200 Members Enrol
The first committee meeting of the Grafton branch of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rail Motor P. & C. Tries Again
Coffs P. & C. Association, at last night's meeting, decided to make another appeal to the Railway Commissioner to supply a rail motor service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →C.w.a. Younger Set Bridge Party
The bridge party organised by the members of the Grafton C.W.A Younger Set held in the Rest Room last Wednesday night was very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety Decline in Accidents. Sydney
War or no war, the fight to prevent unnecessary loss of life in road accidents must go on, said the Minister for Transport, Col. Bruxner, at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Digger Injured In Road Smash Car and Lorry Collide. Sydney
Three 2nd A.I.F. soldiers from the North Coast were injured when the truck in which they were being taken to the Ingleburn camp collided with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rising Costs Affect Motor Transport Higher Fares and Freights Wanted. Sydney
The president of the Commercial Motor Users' Association of New South Wales, Mr. G. H. Newman, said to-day that organised representations were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Regulation Strike Railwaymen in Melbourne. Melbourne
Six hundred members of the Australian Railways Union and Loco Enginemen's Union declared for a 100 percent. "Work to regulations"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trains Late Fires In Victoria Railway Bridges Damaged. Sydney
Fierce bush fires on the Victorian side of the border were responsible for both divisions of the Melbourne express arriving in Sydney six hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Friendly Road
Business transactions carried out between men in the spirit of fairness, integrity and real happiness lead to warm business friendship. In a store's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paddon Enthusiastic Challenge Race With Cook Will Train Seriously
"I have no fixed plans at the moment, but the challenge race between George Cook and myself will definitely take place," stated Evans…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goal Strike Causes Railway Restrictions Sleepers Taken From Mail Trains
Commencing from the beginning of next week, all sleeping cars will be taken off the mail trains running to and from Murwillumbah and Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heads Battered Woman and Boy N.Z. Double Murder Bodies at Side of Road Auckland
With their heads brutally battered, Lloyd Moran, 15, and Mrs. Hamilton, 26, were found murdered at the side of a road at Waikino, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Supplies Restriction of Railway Traffic
In order to conserve supplies of coal for the maintenance of essential services, it has been decided that on and from to-day, and until further notice,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glen Innes Train Cancelled
The Glen Innes mail train to and from Sydney is to be discontinued from Sunday, April 7 as a result of the coal strike. Other alterations in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Road Grafton To Tablelands the First Horse Team
Seventy-five years ago Charies Munt drove the first horse team from the Clarence via Newton Boyd to the New England Tablelands. Here are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Soil Erosion Trouble On Armidale Road Shire and County Council Satisfactory Settlement Announced
Further reference was made at the meeting of the Nymboida Shire Council yesterday to the damage by erosion on the Aimidale road caused,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charcoal Gas There Is Motor Fuel in the Bush for Combustion Engines
Surely some more virile and resourceful attitude towards the future of motor transport in Australia should be adopted than mere [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hackings' Motors Garage Ford Engine Display
Two Ford mechanics are now at Hackings' now garage, Coffs Harbour, giving interesting displays daily of dismantling and re-assembling a Ford VS engine in remarkably quick time. They arrived to-day and will give half-hourly demonstrations to-morrow and Monday and Tuesday…
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