Stark Movies To Shock Road-Hogs
NEW YORK.—Coloured motion pictures of mashed faces and broken bones are suggested as shock treatment for traffic…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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Road Contractors Should Be Brought From Britain
SYDNEY: The Federal Government was urged to bring road building contractors from Britain and failing that, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Workers’s Weekly Train Tickets
Another 23 weekly train tickets from High Street Station t. Burlington Mills were taken out this morning. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Complaint on Roads (To the Editor)
Sir,—I would like to draw the attention or our Civic Fathers to the state of the roads at several bus stops on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire “Ignored” On Aerodrome Site
Lower Hunter Shire Council had been “totally ignored” in discussions over the selection of a site for the construction of an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Campaign for Better Roads
A campaign for an Attack on the laisses-faire surrounding the Community task of making the road system efficient is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Less Than Half Grant Money Spent On Road
Less than half a Joint Coal Board grant of £2850 for the reconstruction of the Minmi-West Wallsend road had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.k. Railway Efficiency
A "very considerable improvement" in the efficiency of railway working in Britain since pre-war is reported by the chairman of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Car As Park Shed
Lower Hunter Shire Council decided to-day to allow Herham Returned Soldiers’ League to purchase and erect a former…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Smash at East Maitland Rear Of Train Uncouples, Hit By FoIlowing Engine
A train smash near. Victoria Street Station, East Maitland, blocked all lines for three hours early this morning. The engine of a cool train, travelling towards New-costle, crashed into the stationary guard's van of part of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thieving on the Railway Alarming Losses
Alarming losses through p[?]ffering and theft within the New South Wales railways were received in Parliament by the Minister for…
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Congratulations this week go to the Patrick Plains Shire Council. They have just completed two miles of bitumen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dunolly Bridge Has Been Re-surfaced
Angry protests by district farmers and stockmen about the shameful condition of the Dunolly ridge has at last compelled the Department of Main Roads to take action…
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ORANGE.—Mr. N. W. Carey (N.S.W.) told the Liberal Party's Federal Rural Committee yesterday that £29 million was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Government And The People Problems Discussed At Muswellbrook Convention Executive Officers Put Case for Wider Powers. Claim for Share of Income Tax for Roads
Speakers at the Local Government Convention, held at Muswellbrook last Saturday, said the great need to-day was to break down among the people that apathy to Local Government, which, it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Beer. Charge Against Former Railway Employee Proved
Gordon Edward Haynes (23), fireman, a former railway employee, appeared at the Police Court on…
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Maitland Motor Cycle Club intends holding acceleration tests and novelty events at the Rutherford circuit, next to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Bridge for Denman
The Department of Main Roads has called tenders for a new road bridge over the Hunter at Denman. One contract is for the…
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The Department of Main Roads has called tenders for a new road bridge over the Hunter at Denman…
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Reasons for the steep Increase in road accidents, according to NRMA general secretary (Mr. H. E. Richards) are the rapid rise…
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