Main Roads Board. Record Expenditure This Year
For each of the last three years Main Roads Board expenditure has increased, and it is expected that in 1929 there will be a still larger amount…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
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The Road That Led Home (Published by Special Arrangement.) Copyright. Chapter XXX.—Continued
"I'd like to. I'd like him to have all he needs, Mr. Perks." "That's good of you." The solicitor frowned to himself. "It might be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Out of Control Motor Cycle's Dive Over Cliff. Sydney
While Frank Coleman, 19, was riding a motor cycle at Pymble, his machine got out of control, and with him dived over a 20 foet cliff. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycling. Maitland Speedway
The popularity of the Maitland Speedway from the riders' point of view is evident by the fact that 51 riders have entered for next…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Main Roads
In 1925-25 the expenditure on main roads was £1,563,000, and it increased the following year to £2,671,000, and in 1927h-28 £3,365,000…
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The secretary of the Main Roads Board has written as follows to Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., regarding the appointment of a divisional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Decentralisation of Roads Administration
The establishment of seven divisional engineers, including two in the metropolitan area, to assume control of the details associated with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Broke-road Reconstruction
Aa far as Kearsley Council is concerned, a start could be made with the Broke Cessbock road within a forthnight. The survey has been complete and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock-broke Road
Kearsley Shire Council has now been advised that the Government has made available, out of the 1928-29 vote, a sum of money for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hurled From Train Passenger's' Death
A remarkable tragedy occurred in the Whangarei (N.Z.) railway line, which winds in and out of mountain gorges, often with a sheer drop to the river,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kurri Fatality Collision on Weston Bridge
Fatal injuries were received by Francis Howard (38), of John-street, Abermain, when he collided with a motor car on the overhead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Run Down by Train Fettler Killed
While riding on a railway tricycle O' Neill, a railway fettler, was run down by the Temora mail a couple of miles out of the Goulburn station and was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Harbor Bridge. As Seen by Muswellbrook Resident
Mr. F. Arnall, manager St. Heliers' Colliery, recently completed an interesting tour of the North Coast and city. While in the latter place he was able…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Roads Expenditure £3,500,000 This Year
For cach of the last three years Main Roads Board expenditure has increased, And it is expected that in 1929 there will be a still larger amount spent on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mysterious. Death on Mail Train. Foul Play Discounted
That the death of Archibald McCullum, the Victorian, whose body was found in a lavatory of the Sydney-Tamworth mail train at Greta on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Developmental Road Cessnock to Broke. Cessnock
It is expected that work will shortly commence on the Cessnock to Broke developmental road. It is stated that £6000 has been made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weston's Worry Shall the Main Road Turn Off
Over 600 names have been signed to a petition to be presented to the Minister for Local Government, praying that the making of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Road That Led Home (Published by Special Arrangement.) Copyright. Chapter Xxxi
Alison Mowbray and James Prester were taking a day off in the country. They had risen in the grey winter's dawn and with sandwiches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Fees. £1,000,000 Paid in Victoria
Last year motor registration fees received by the Victorian police exceeded £1,000,000 for the first time. With the registration of 29,856 more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Vehicles. 1700 Thefts in Year
There was an alarming increase in the number of motor vehicle thefts during last year. Almost 1700 vehicles—chiefly cars—were stolen…
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