Road Junctions Again Arouse Comment
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 18 January 1973 · page 1
From the letters to the editor it will be noticed that once again, as the heavy holiday traffic uses both the highway and the Sawtell loop road, it is noticed how every dangerous the southern entry is, and also there has been a good deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Popularity of the Motorcycle
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 18 January 1973 · page 3
Motorcycle usage in New South Wales has experienced a massive resurgence in the last few years. the number of riders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain Creates Road Hazzard
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 25 January 1973 · page 1
Our sub-tropical downpours in the last few have made the roads slippery and this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Tax to Be Lifted
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 1 February 1973 · page 1
Timber millers and country people generally will welcome the announcement that, in conformity with a pre-election promise, the State Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Toll Heavy Over Holidays
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 1 February 1973 · page 1
It is disappointing to read that there was such a heavy road toll over the recent holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drive-on Train For North Coast
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 8 February 1973 · page 1
The Minister for Transport has announced that a drive-on, drive-off train will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Contractors Urged —Faster, Cheaper Than DMR
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 17 May 1973 · page 1
A strong plea for use by the N.S.W. Main Roads Department of road-building contractors “as far as is practicable,” has been made in State Parliament by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Armidale Road
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 21 June 1973 · page 3
The Department of Main Roads is investigating moves to have the coast road to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Poet’s Corner Motorists Road Safety Prayer
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 28 June 1973 · page 3
Lord, give me the careful head and watchful eye That I may harm no one as I drive by. Thou gavest life — I pray no act of mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring News
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 28 June 1973 · page 3
Windshield de foggers may be the next gadget to disappear from cars, but this will probably not be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Gets Fifth of Grant for Roads
The Bananacoast Opinion · Thursday 12 July 1973 · page 1
Coffs Harbour Shire has received $127,520 of $654,450 allocated to councils in the Clarence electorate from the Commonwealth Aid Roads grant. The total grant to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Association wants coast road sealed
The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 17 July 1973 · page 1
The Sapphire Strip Progress Association has been told that sealing of the Old…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain Damages Road Surface There must be something wrong with the modern method of road sealing as it is obviously not an all weather job
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 19 July 1973 · page 1
After every period of sustained rain, the roads all round the Shire break and become almost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search for Bridge Ends The Army's search for a rare type of tubular steel bridge has ended successfully
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 26 July 1973 · page 1
For the past year the Army has sought a Steele Tubular Bridge Mark II designed by Lieutenant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mail Train To Run Sundays
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 2 August 1973 · page 1
Important changes are to be made in the running times of the North Coast Mail and the Gold Coast Motor Rail Express…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Train’s World Record Speed
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 9 August 1973 · page 2
British Rail’s high speed train has set a new world record for a disel-powered train. It reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roadside Stalls on Sawtell Road
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 30 August 1973 · page 1
It must be over three months now that the Sawtell chamber of Commerce decided they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Falls From Train
The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 11 September 1973 · page 9
Coffs Harbour police yesterday afternoon released the name of a Grafton man injured when he fell from a train three miles north of Coffs Harbour on Sunday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Southern Cross Rally Tomorrow Major section of rally over local roads, forest trails
The Bananacoast Opinion · Tuesday 2 October 1973 · page 1
Bananacoast residents will have the chance of a lifetime to see the “cream” of international rally drivers in this year's Southern Cross rally. The rally is ranked number two in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dorrigo/glenreagh Railway for Tourism
Sawtell Guardian · Thursday 11 October 1973 · page 1
In a question without notice to the Minister for Transport, M. A. Morris, M.L.A., the member for Clarence, Mr. Matt Singleton, asked if any progress had been made regarding earlier strong representations he had made for the reopening…
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