Fell Under Train Both Legs Severed
A Melbourne message states that an unknown unemployed man, aged 25, had both legs severed when he fell under a truck while attempting…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
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Railway Contracts Tenderers Freed From Restrictions
Owing to preference to unionists and other employment conditions being imposed by the Lang Government on tenderers for sawn hardwood contracts…
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At the District council meeting of the P.P.U., held on Tuesday week at Dungog, the Raymond Terrace branch submitted a motion requesting the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Digging Up the Roads
On the motion of Ald Horne, Cessnock Council, at its meeting on Tuesday night decided to review the charge made to plumbers for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Party Enjoyable Function at Weston
An enjoyable evening was spent by about 30 guests of Mrs. Neta Hector when a bridge party was conducted at her home, Second-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The World at the Cross Roads on Disarmament
(The following declaration was made by Professor Einstein, the world famous scientist-philosopher, before he left California recently for his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Found on Road Admitted to Hospital
Picked up by the Branxton police, on the main road from Branxton, a man was admitted to the Maitland Hospital about 2.30 this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Electoral Campaign. Hon. Walter Bennett, M.L.A. Stroud Road
Hon. Walter Bennett, M.L.A., addressed a well-attended meeting at Stroud Road, on Monday night last. Councillor H. Barnes occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Wins Brooklands Motor Race LONDON, May 26
[?]n Richmond, an Australian, won first qualifying motor race at [?]klands for the Junior Car Club's on miles contest in the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycles Collide
When two motor cycles collided at Raymond Terrace yesterday afternoon, Stan Fletcher, of Heresford, a turncock, employed by the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Belmore Bridge Footway Conferences
West Maitland Municipal Council and Bolwarra Shire Council will make representations to the Transport Board immediately after the elections…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Relief Grant Cessnock Aerodrome
The Deputy-Mayor of Cossnock (Aid. J. Brown), who, with the town clerk (Mr. G Cooksley), waited on the Commonwealth Employment Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trams Collide Mishap on Bridge
The first accident to a tram on the Harbour Bridge approach occurred yesterday at midday when a tram from North Sydney crashed into a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plunged From Harbour Bridge Digger Lives After Fall
Plunging 190 ft. from the Harbour Bridge to the water yesterday afternoon before the horrified eyes of hundreds of train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints for Motorists Changing the Carburettor Tracing Engine Knocks
Sometimes when a cur owner becomes "fed up" because ho cannot obtain the desired results from his car in the way of petrol mileage and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Freights View of Graziers' President
Mr Lang's statement in his policy speech that under a Lang Government "early reduction of rail freights and fares may he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£1500 GRANT Cessnock Aerodrome Work for 100 Men Cessnock
At a special meeting of Cessnock Municipal Council last night, a report was submitted that a sum of £1500 had been made available as a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →R.A.C.A. NOTES Preserving Our Roads HAND-BRAKES
Now that Australia is faced with the prospect of some years of rigid general economy the need for preserving the costly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Railway Tunnels
The world's greatest tunnels are to be found in Europe, and a brief summary of these shows that the greatest is the Simplon, which is 12¼ miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Bridge St. John's Younger Set
A most enjoyable time was spent in the Assembly Room, Catholice Hall, last evening, when St. John's Younger Set entertained at War Bridge,…
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