Damage to Roads
The Minister for Works and Local Government advised that he would give consideration to Council's application for assistance to repair…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
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Road Repairs
At last work has commenced on repairs to the road next to the Shire Chambers, where an old culvert under the tarred road had given way…
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Discussing a request that consideration be given to a kerbing and guttering and paving programme for East Gresford, Cr. Leake stated…
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The Minister for Transport, Hon. M. F. Bruxner, advised that the question of declaring the Gresford-Carrabolla road above Lostock, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Train Saturday Mornings
The Railway Department has decided to run an extra train from Newcastle to Sydney to cope with the increased traffic on Saturday mornings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bad Piece of Road
There was a time not very long ago, when the Merriwa end of the road between here and Muswellbrook was regarded as, being about one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thorby Replies London' Press Comment Aeroplane Accidents Sydney
Comment on remarks published in the London aviation Journal "Aeroplane" was made to-day by the Minister for Defence, Mr. Thorby. According to a London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell Into River Train Driver Drowns Wellington, (N.z.)
After apparently striking a bridge abutment while leaning out of the cab to ascertain the cause of a knocking noises in the engine, Joseph Mosley, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Screen Wipers Hint to Motorists
Motorists often find that when they wish to use their windscreen wipers on a rainy day after a spell of dry weather, the mechanism fails to operate. This…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motorists' Narrow Escape
Three Dungog men had a narrow escape from serious injury, when a large Plymouth car crashed over an embankment a short distance north of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Railway Traffic
Holiday traffic from Dungog Railway station on this occasion was the heaviest in recent years, in itself, evidence of more prosperous times. Large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manner in Which Motor Vehicles May Overtake New Rules Proposed
The Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr C. N. Neale, said on Wednesday that consideration was being given to the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I Illegally Using a Motor Car Two Men Gaoled
Sentences of three months and one month hard labor respectively were imposed on Norman Lacey, 26, laborer, and Raymond Charles Betos, 26,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Friendly Road
HOLIDAYS. A man I met recently informed me that at the age of eighty-four he had never taken a holiday, nor had he ever…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Conference Queensland Delegate BRISBANE
The Queensland Commissioner for Main Roads, Mr. J. R. Kemp, will be the Australian official delegate at the International road conference to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Races Police Impose Ban Cyclists Hit Sydney
The Police Traffic Department has decided that in future no cycling race will be permitted, on highways where the 30 miles an hour limit applies,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motorist Killed Crashed Down Bank SYDNEY
W. T. Collins, of McMahon's Point, was fatally injured this morning when his single-seater car crashed over a steep embankment near the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Cartage Horse Transport English Firms
Reports received by the New South Wales branch of the Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society from Mr. V. D. Cox, an ex-president now in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Press Body in Four Panels
One of the biggest steel motor body-building presses in the world is included in £135,000 worth of new equipment to be installed at the Woodville…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor World Motor Horns Unnecessary Noise
While the N.R.M.A. is entirely in sympathy with any movement to prohibit the unnecessary use of motor horns, the association is opposed to…
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