Motorists’ Lack of Courtesy
Wholesale condemnation of motorists for lock of courtesy and bad temper can be overtime, In the opinion of the N.R.M.A…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1950
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Estimate On Shire Roads Damaged
The engineer of Lower Hunter Shire Council (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) is to prepare an estimate, as soon as he can make a survey…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday An old prospector, Mr. Roy Baker, picked up a nugget of gold worth £100 while walking along a country road…
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SOUTH KOREA, July 7 (AAP-Reuter)—With the front line within 60 miles of Taejon, South Korea’s temporary capital is…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Following conference at Warkworth of representatives of the Main Roads Board, Plains Shire Council, Mr…
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KEMPSEY. Friday. — The North Coast Mail, first passenger trafn to Kempsey since the floods, was held up for an hour…
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NEW YORK, July 7.—Ten persons were killed and over 50 injured, many seriously, in a freak collision at Monica, Illinois,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Cahill) announced that first advances would be made to councils to help, them finance repair of roads damaged by floods…
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On the recommendation of the Engineer (Mr. L. Grattan) Kearsley Shire Council decided on Tuesday night to recommend to…
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CANBERRA: Compulsory military training is expected to begin next July. About 15,000 young men above the age…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Tools Unfit For Use On Bridge Work Union Official's Allegation
According to the Secretary of the Cessnock branch of the Municipal Employees' Union (Mr. R. Henderson) work on bridges in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Condition of Minor Roads and Streets a Problem. Grant From Overdraft Discussed
The question of allocating the Engineer £14,500 from the overdraft to carry out repairs to minor roads and streets in the area was discussed at length at a meeting of Kearsley Shire Council on Tuesday night…
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A conference for the purpose of urging the Government to construct a railway between Minimbah and Morisset will be held at the Cessnock…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—Approval for a Id reduction in the city section tram tare was given by the Executive Council…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Transport, Mr. Sheahan, gave a sympathetic hearing to the case presented by the Maryvale…
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Recent wet weather showed the advantage of NRMA membership to motorists, and 3292 new members joined last month…
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The long spell of wet weather in N.S.W. has caused the greatest hold-up of motor vehicles in history, in the NRMA's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Roads Can Cause Erosion
Roads being hard and compacted by traffic, are impervious, and in consequence shed water very rapidly, even when only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cyclists On Speed Charges
Flees were imposed on three motor cyclists on charges of speeding, at East Maitland court yesterday…
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DETROIT, July 10 (AAF.)— Production by General Motor, Corporation of cars and lorries in the United States and Canada during…
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