VIEWPOINTS Readers' Opinions in Fifty Word Letterettes. What Do You Think? Use of Motor Horns
Singleton Argus · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 3
I consider the movement to prohibit to a great extent the use of motor horns would, if given effect to, be a dangerous thing. As a motorist…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Tenders. Peat's Ferry Bridge
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2
The Main Roads Department will call tenders in London on Saturday for the construction of a bridge over the Hawkesbury River, at Peat's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£4000 Taken From Train Toulon, January 17
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 6
Thieves broke the seals on a goods track at the railway station to-night and stole coins valued at £4000 destined for the Bank of France…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Barrington Tops Road Work. Efforts to Secure Resumption
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1
Mr. W. Alport, Murrurrudi, writes:—Dear Sir,—We have received word from Mr. H. Carter, M.L.A., (Liverpool Plains), and Mr; Malcolm Brown,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Week-end Train Service to be Improved. Additional Buses to Meet Excursion Trains
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 3
Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., states that although he has not been officially advised, it is understand that there is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Visitors to Cassilis. Involved in Motor Car Smash Sydney
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2
The two daughters of Sir Hugh and Lady Poynter, Jocelyn (22), and Shirley (19), together with Captain Blacker, aide to the State Governor (Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Fatality at Moree Two Men Killed Moree
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2
Henry John Milling, of Wattle Avenue, Manly, and a man named Omus, the owner of Yagabie Station, Binniguy, were killed when a car crashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Earnings
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2
Reduced to terms of £1, the railway revenue for 1936-37 was derived from sources as follow:—Goods and live-stock, 10/4 1/2; passengers, 6/01/2;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Gardens. Muswellbrook's Success
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 3
In the railway gardens competition over section 7 Gunnedah was awarded first prize for 1937 and Muswellbrook second prize…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Trailers Motor Car Registrations SYDNEY
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 4
According to figures released by the Department of Road Transport, 412 new motor cars and 113 new motor trucks were registered for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PATERSON Motor Car Stolen PATERSON
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 8
A tourer motor car belonging to Mr. W. A. Keppie was stolen on Saturday night from in front of the Paterson School of Arts, while the talkies were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Tenders for Peat's Ferry Bridge Department's Two Designs
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 4
The Main Roads Department will call tenders in London on Saturday for the construction of a bridge over the Hawkesbury River, at Peat's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Not Granted Request by Council to Railways Dept
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 4
Land owned by the Department of Railways and adjacent to High-street station was the subject of discussion at last night's meeting of West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ravensworth Railway Station Accident Mr Roy George Explains
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 2
An "Argus" representative paid a visit to the Dangar Cottage Hospital this afternoon in order to ascertain the condition of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advertising Along the Road
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 4
Roadside advertising will be made the subject of a special report by Mr. Newell Commissioner for Roads, following his observations abroad. The report states…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Still Sweep the North Coast Much Damage Road Employee Drowned Railways Held Up Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 1
Heavy damage has been caused by floods on the North Coast, and rivers are still rising. A Main Roads Department employee was swept away and drowned when a flood came…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Breaches Cases at Kurri Kurri Kurri Kurri
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 5
Pleading guilty to a charge, of having converted a motor car into a motor lorry without notifying the department, Albert Theodore Roberts, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter River Bridge
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 2
Hopes for the construction of a bridge over the Hunter River at Hexham, on the Pacific Highway, in the not-too-distant future, are revived in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fosterton Road
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 3
The Shire Engineer, Mr. Lipscombe, submitted as requested, an estimate for the proposed tar surfacing of Fosterton Road. For the total length…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Road Back"
Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 4
"The Road Back," coming to the Strand next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and matinee on Wednesday at 2 p.m., is taken from Erich…
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