Suicide Failed Woman on Bridge AUCKLAND
Twice in the past 12 months a woman has tried to commit suicide by jumping from Grafton Bridge. On Sunday, two men rushed forward…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1937
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Road Safety. New Council. for New South Wales
Since the formation during last year of the road safety conference, many recommendations have been made to the Government, upon a wide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Objection to Proposed Road Upper Yango to Laguna
Reporting, at last Thursday night's meeting of the Kearsley Shire Council, on the proposal for a road from Upper Yango to Laguna, the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety. New Council for New South Wales
Since the formation during last year of the road safety conference, many recommendations have been made to the Government upon a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victim of Hit-run Motorist. Dies in Hospital. Sydney
Stephen Joseph Walker, or Henry Wilson (54), who was found lying unconscious in the gutter in Wentworth Avenue, near Oxford-street, yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disappointment! Employment on Railway Construction
Contrary to expectations, only two more men were signed on for railway construction work at Sandy Hollow on Monday last when a call-up was held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Boat Trials London, July 5
Sir Malcolm Campbell has abandoned trials of his new speedboat, Bluebird, for which he had waited a fortnight at Loch Lomond, owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motorist Disqualified Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions, John Thomas Delguan, 84, a motor driver, was disqualified from driving a motor vehicle for 13 months, and was ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Approach
Ald. Kennedy said he noticed that Council had patched the approach to the Railway station He had stood that the Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook Railway Works
O[?]cers of the Railway Department carried out further inspections last week in connection with the proposed extensions to the Muswellbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Struck by Tram Cessnock Identity Fatally Injured
Struck by a tram in Maitland-road, Mayfield, on Saturday night, George Holden, 40, a baker employed at…
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"The amounts paid to the States since 1926 from petrol collections for road construction and maintenance have totalled more than £24,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minister Replies Aerodrome Proposal E.M. COUNCIL'
East Maitland Council received a further letter from the Minister for Lands (Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw) at its meeting last night with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Knocked Off Bridge Wollongong
A railway engine knocked Captain Gordon, harbourmaster, from the skeleton bridge over the Wollongong. Port Kembla-road yesterday. Men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby Born on New Zealand Train
Passengers, except those in one carriage, wondered why an express train stopped at a lonely place on the Stratford-Taumarunni (N.Z.) line late on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Chief and Road Safety
In his annual report Sir Philip Game, Commissioner of Police of the London Metropolis, has some interesting comments. He thinks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baby Born in Train Wellington (N.z.)
The passengers, except those in one carriage, wondered why an express train stopped at a lonely place on the Stratford-Taumarunni line…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGLETON & DISTRICT Railway Revenue Increase of £27. SINGLETON
The following comparative figures for Singleton during 1936 and 1937 shows that the Railway Department has registered increased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Funds Low Main Roads Work
The engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay ported to Tarro Shire that the maintenance programme recently approved for the curren year was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Hits Truck Fatality at Grossing MELBOURNE
When a motor truck was wrecked by an electric express train at Mitcham-road level crossing, Stephen Bower Bricker, 59, a dealer, of Caulfield was…
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