Accidents at Corners a Word to Motorists
"A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the failure…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
2,677 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 51 of 134
Duplication Urged Branxton-muswellbrook Railway
The Council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce decided on Friday to urge the Department of Railways to duplicate the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Sent to Gaol Five Traffic Breaches
Two months imprisonment, fines totalling £32, and disqualification from holding a licence for 10 years, were the penalties imposed on David…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Milk in Railway Refreshment Rooms 600 Per Cent. Profit Alleged
Mr Bate (U.A.P., South Coast) declared in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday night that the Government had made a profit of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country Pressmen Visit South Australia an Interesting Day at General Motors-holden Works
Following the recent conference of the Australian Provincial Press Association in Adelaide, the delegatesârepresentatives of all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Commissioner Fined
The Commissioner of Railways was proceeded against in the Lithgow Police Court on Wednesday by Lloyd Ross, secretary of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Net Loss on Australian Railways Figures of Commonwealth Statistician
The net loss on Australian railways in the financial year 1937-38 was £427000—the smallest since 1914. The deficit in the preceding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sport and Sportsmen Weekly Sport Review. Football: Muswellbrook. Hockey: Aberdeen. the Rifle: A. D. McCalman. BASEBALL: Muswellbrook. BOWLS: H. A. Bridge, J. Lowe, M. Thompson GOLF: B. D. Lennon. Cycling: Muswellbrook. TENNIS: June Tournament. FOOTBALL
What a crowd the most popular of all sports to watch, football, attracted on Sunday last. Scone came down in full force, while the 'Brook was…
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GEMS OF THOUGHT. To think great thoughts is often the mind's best defence against the temptation to he narrow, small and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Food for Thought Cost Of Aeroplane Screw Blade
An exhibit at the recent Melbourne Motor Show served to emphasise the really wonderful value available in the latest cars and commercial motor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Killed Road Accident At Rockdale SYDNEY
Charles Edward Rowe, 78, or Merry lands, was fatally injured when he was knocked down by a motor car at Rock-dale last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Accidents Care Urged At Corners Minister's Appeal (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
"A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due…
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Road safety in Australia is becoming a problem of major importance, as the density of motor traffic increases. It will become…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →325,859 Motor Vehicles Registered in N.S.W. SYDNEY
At the end of April 325,859 motor vehicles were registered in New South Wales, an increase of 5.7 per cent, over the registrations in April, 1938. The number of licensed drivers was 452,231, an increase of 6.6 per cent., in the same period…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Safe Working Railway Car To Visit Maitland
The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan) has decided to allow the general public to inspect the travelling cars which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Racing in Europe Expensive Luxury
Motor car racing in Europe has become a particularly expensive luxury for those who indulge in the sport, owing to the heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor WORLD The Rubber Tree Importance to Civilised World Vast Development
Rubber is of such importance to the whole civilised world—in fact, the world may be said to almost move on rubber—that it will surprise most people to learn that, according to the American Society of Foresters, the rubber tree is listed tenth in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Varied Types Fuel for Motor 'Buses
On the Continent, and particularly in countries devoid of plentiful supplies of reasonably, priced petrol, different types of fuel for motor buses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Efficient Railway Employees MUSWELLBROOK
Considerable satisfaction is felt among railway men over the fact that the Muswellbrook section, Messrs T. Roughan (ganger), J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paterson Road Proposed Deviation
Engineers from the Newcastle of lice of the Department of Main Roads in company with the clerk of Bolwarra Shire (Mr. A. L. Skelton)…
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