Road Manners of Truck Drivers
The N.R.M.A. is watching with interest the efforts of good elements among heavy motor transport drivers to remove the stigma…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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Plea For Speed In Road Restoration
The N.R.M.A. has issued an appeal to road building authorities and to public utilities and persons permitted to cut trenches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Service for Local Motorists While You Wait Battery Charging
As with so many other things that we used to say "can't be done," science has again confounded all our pre-conceived ideas—and this time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints to the Motorist to Save Fuel
Hints on petrol saving were recently offered by engineers of the NRMA. The most obvious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NRMA Makes Appeal To Motor Mechanics
The N.R.MA makes an appeal to motor mechanics for the greatest care in attending to the Safety equipment of motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Courtesy
The N.R.M.A. is watching with interest the efforts of good elements among heavy motor transport drivers to remove the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety Meeting
A special meeting of the Singleton Branch of the Road Safety Council has been called and will be held in the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle and Car Collide
Donald Jenison, 22, [?] wellbrook, was admitted to [?] Hospital with a [?] fracture of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Train Crowded on First Run
When the new air-conditioned Tablelands Express reached Muswellbrook yesterday, all seats were occupied. Passengers expressed appreciation of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Off to a Good Start Road Safety Council Reformed
The Cessnock branch of the Road Safety Council, reformed on Friday night, is off to a good start…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook's Mayoress. Mrs. Adams Injured in Motor Accident
When motoring to Wyong on Saturday Mrs. G. S. Adams, wife of Ald. G. S. Adams (Mayor) was injured when her car collided with another…
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CESSNOCK: The president of Kearsley Shire Council (Cr. Butler) informed a meeting of council that he, Cr. Collins, the shire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Petrol Tax Grant for Road Works
The Department of Works has allotted £6340 from the petrol tax grant towards work on roads In Port Stephens Shire for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deduction of 2/- Yard For Unsatisfactory Road Gravelling Work
Wallarobba Shire Council decided yesterday to deduct 2/ per cubie yard from the price it will pay to its contractor for gravelling work, which was described at yesterday’s meeting as being “very unsatisfactory.”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It's a Long Road From the Ice Age to the Melbourne Cup
FIFTY-FIVE MILLION YEARS is a long time, whichever way you look at it. Fifty-five million years ago, so the experts tell us, the first horse-like creature lived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Loss on Teams, Railways, Buses
SYDNEY N.S.W. railway, bus and tram services are expected to show a defict of £[?] for the financial year ending June…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Matters Plant Purchases
The Shire Engineer, (Mr. A. L. Cook) reported to the April meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Council Plant Purchases:—In accordance with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Permanent Speed Limit On Belmore Bridge
Restriction of loads on the Belmore Bridge is expected to be lifted within four weeks, but a speed limit, not [?] as low as the present four miles on hour will remain permanently…
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The Coroner, Mr. V. R. Jenkins, this morning opened the Inquest into the death of a railway employee, Roy Tanner, 54, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flag Bridge Parties
At the first meeting of the year in February the members of Scots’ Women’s Guild decided to start the pries of card parties…
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