Bridge Tolls Motor Car Charges N.R.M.A. CLAIMS
"My association will press strongly for the abolition of the threepenny toll now charged on passengers in road vehicles crossing the Harbour…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
2,371 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 48 of 119
Murrurundi Notes Warrah Shire Council Meeting Crawney-nundle Road Half Completed. Splitter's Creek Bridge to Be Started
The Warrah Shire Council met the Council Chambers, Murrurundi, on Monday last, when the President, Cr. J. J. Perkins, presided. Councillors…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →St. Peter's War Bridge and Dance
Owing to the threatening weather, the attendance at the dance and war bridge conducted at the Literary Institute, East Maitland, last night, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hawk's Nest-gibber Suggested Road
It has often been suggested that a road should be constructed from Hawk's Nest to the Gibber, some 8 or 9 miles distant, in order to make…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shocking Death of School-master. Fell in Front of Train
C. Martin Smith, 48, of Cambridge-street, Stanmore who for 13 years; had been master in charge of the preparatory school at Newington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road to Kurri Hospital. Cr. Saxton Replies to Criticism
The President of the Kearsley Shire Council (Cr. P. Saxton) is concerned at criticism levelled at the council by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tarro to Blame Kurri Hospital Road Kearsley View Kurri Kurri
"Tarro Shire is to blame for the condition of the road leading from Weston to the Kurri Kurri Hospital and it is not the concern of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Killed. Motor Accident at Paterson
As the result of a collision between a motor cycle and motor lorry on the sharp turn onto the Paterson bridge. Noel Charles Jordan (22) was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Tyres Monopoly for N. Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
The proposal of the Government to grant a monopoly for the manufacture of motor car tyres in the Dominion has caused perturbation among…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorists' Woes Screen Wipers Fail
With the advent of showery weather the N.R.M.A. has received numerous reports of the failure of windscreen wipers. Usually it is discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Record Smashed
A New York message states that Floyd Roberts, a racing motorist, and former Californian schoolteacher, smashed records to win the 500-mile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Roller Skating on Roads
An outbreak of roller-skating on Botany Road, Botany, has received the attention of the police. It was recently reported to the N.R.M.A. that a…
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A PERSONAL POINT. "There are five points of the compass" runs an old Chinese adage. "North, South, East, West, and the point…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Accidents Speed Limit at Night
During their observations of the operation of the 30 miles an hour speed limit, officers of the N.R.M.A. discovered a widespread belief among…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Speed Limit Motor Firms Protest SYDNEY
The controversy over the motor speed limit of 30 miles per hour for built up areas is still raging in Sydney. To-day many motor firms joined…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor World Britishers to Meet in Speed Clash Experts Expect That 350 m.p.h. Will Be Attained
The coming "speed" clash between the two Britishers, Capt. George Eyston and John Cobb in Utah (U.S.A.) for the honour of holding the world's land speed record will bring into friendly competition two of the oldest automobile…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Toll More People Killed State's Loss Sydney
Despite the passage of legislation fixing a speed limit of 30 miles an hour in built-up areas, and 50 miles an hour elsewhere, figures made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Week-end Accidents Motor Cyclist Wollongong
When he attempted to ride his friend's motor cycle, Harold Norman Fisher, 20, of Wollongong, was fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arm Severed Motor-Car Overturns ORANGE
Peter Ryan, 28, a fruiterer, of Bathurst, had his arm severed above the elbow when his car skidded and overturned near Lucknow, five miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycle Fatality Sydney
Arthur Corben, 25, of Todman Avenue, Kensington, was killed last night when his motor-cycle struck a verandah post in Rocky Point-road…
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