Road Technique Skidding Cause of Accidents Safety Appeal (Issued by the Road Safety Coucil of New South Wales)
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 4
This is the time of the year when there are more deaths in road accidents than at any other period. Experience over the last…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 5
With [?] stitches in his right arm, and unable to work for some [?]. Joseph Thoriey, well-known Muswellbrook young man is [?]…
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Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 2
A deputation from Tanilba waited on the Council at last meeting, to urge more attention to Lemon Tree road. The deputation comprised Messrs. Russell,…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 9
Negotiations are being made by Manning River and Taree Council for the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) to open the new bridge across the…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 9
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 2
For driving an unregistered motor cycle, [?] Fredrick [?] Tho[?] was [?] £1 with 6/ coast, in default three…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 12
Because his wife was tired every time she took their two honny children for an airing by pushing the pram up steep hills, a young electrical…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 2
The Commonwealth Railways are distributing an up-to-date map of Australia, showing the whole of the railway systems of Australia…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 3
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Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 3
The £1,600,000 Howrah bridge now being built by British engineers at Calcutta carries the third largest cantiliever span—1500 feet—in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dungog Municipal Council Only One Taxi Rank Opening of Chichester Road Sought
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 4
There was only a bare quorum at Tuesday night's Municipal Council meeting, and as a result discussion on several subjects was allowed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Strikes Post on Dungowan Road One Killed—five Admitted to Hospital
The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 1
When a motor car struck an electric light post on the Dungowan road, 11 miles from Tamworth on Saturday afternoon, one…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 6
The Railway Department has made arrangements for running a special train from the west picking up at Wellington. Orange, Bathurst,…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 5
On a motoring honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. J. Levy, of Sydney, had their tour interrupted at Girvan, on the North Coast road run between Booral…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 5
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1940 · page 8
The main road running from Pacific Highway at Woodburn through Coraki to Lismore is described in a report issued by an inspector of the…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1940 · page 5
A TIME TO LAUGH, âA little [?] now and [?] by the [?] Here is [?]…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1940 · page 2
The Swiss Government has ordered general mobilisation following the bombing of the railway between Delmont and Montier, about 20 miles south-west of Basic, says the Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor World Drop in the Sales of New Cars Rumoured Rationing of Petrol Has Effect
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1940 · page 8
The dire effects of rumours that petrol supplies were likely to be rationed in the Commonwealth in the near future have had a disturbing reaction on the sales of new automobiles in every State of the Commonwealth…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1940 · page 8
During the past few years, there has been a gradual swing, to deal tyres [?] the driving wheels of commercial vehicles, the object…
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