New Pacific Highway Bridge
The N.R.M.A. reports that the construction of the new deviation from Tinonee along the southern bank of the Manning River to Taree will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1940
718 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 36
Road Men Down Tools
Workmen employed on the Kendall-Comboyne road downed tools for half a day this week, but went back to work when consideration of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Toll Grows in Country
It is the considered opinion of experts in a position to judge that the mileage travelled by the 328,000 motor vehicles in the State is less now than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Grants a Dwindling Concern
The dwindling of allocations to the States under the Federal Aid Roads Grant Scheme was viewed with great apprehension by members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON McFARLANE BRIDGE Alleged Negligent Driving Case at Maclean Police Court
At the Maclean Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M., the police proceeded against Arthur Alex Ridding on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Morning Tea For Road Workers to Be Debated in Parliament. Sydney
The decision of the State Cabinet that morning tea could not be allowed to full time workers, but would be allowed to rationed men, is to be made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Firemen Hurt In Road Accidents One Burn at Bush Fire. Sydney
Five firemen were injured in two different road accidents today, at Lane Cove and Mascot. At Lane Cove four firemen were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Markets To Be Maintained in Spite of War Activities
The announcement that the British War Cabinet has decided to base its policy upon the assumption that the War may last three years or more and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Polluted Water Road Construction Camps. Sydney
Many road construction workers had suffered sickness, as they were often compelled to drink polluted water, said the secretary of the United Laborers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Midsummer Madness (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
A holiday is the average persons opportunity to get away from the job -- from office, factory or kitchen -- to take to the highway and become…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Strike Govt. Supports Commissioner. Sydney
The Government will support the Railway Commissioner, said the Transport Minister (Col. Bruxner) to-day, referring to the Broken Hill railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Dead Week-end Road Accidents. Sydney
Three persons were killed in road accidents yesterday. Margaret Harding, 9, of Drummdyne, was fatally injured when she was struck by a taxi…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Family Killed On Way To Wedding Truck Strikes Train. Brisbane
When a motor truck collided with a train at Gooburrum, near Bundaberg three were killed. The victims were John Paterson. 56…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Killed In Road Smashes Melbourne's Bad Week-end. Melbourne
The holiday week-end was marred by a number of bad road accidents, including four fatal smashes. To a late hour to-day the following had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellinger River Car Off the Road. Belligen
The driver and three passengers of a small Chevrolet car had lucky escapes from injury when the car left the road and crashed into a culvert at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →200 INCINERATED Trapped On Burning Train Collision in Japan. New York
The American Associated Press Tokio correspondent states that 200 passengers were trapped and burned to death when a suburban train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Army on Wheels Motor Replaces the Horse
"Mechanisation" of the Army has become a familiar phrase, but how many Australians have any appreciation of the extent to which it has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Killed On Racing Circuit Cars and Motor Cycle Collide Melbourne
Two persons were killed and two others injured in an unusual accident on the motor cycling racing circuit at Phillip Island to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reckless Motorists In Bush Fire Areas Ignore Warning Notices. Sydney
Only amazing good fortune had prevented the week-end road toll from being increased tenfold because of the reckless behaviour of some motorists in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclonic Storm Railway Camps Damaged at Koolkhan and Kyarran Tents and Equipment Destroyed
A severe storm, accompanied by cyclonic wind, lightning and thunder, lashed the small railway sidings of Koolkhan and Kyarran at about 3.45…
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