Main Roads Board Selection Many Applicants Early Decision Unlikely
Although the chairman of the new Main Roads Board probably will be chosen next week, the process of selecting the two engineer members will…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1925
743 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 38
Man Robbed in Train £20 Taken (By Wire) Sydney
Mr. Arthur Wilkin, of Milson's Point, was returning to Sydney last night from Penrith, when two men in the same railway carriage brutally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country Press Has Hopes From Railway Commissioners
The executive of the Country Press Association has passed a motion congratulating Mr. Fraser on his re-appointment as Chief Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blamed the Roads Treasurer's Christmas Trip
Sir Arthur Cocks, State Treasurer, spent the Christmas holidays motoring. Discussing the roads between Liverpool and Goulburn, he said there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colletts' Crossing Bridge Shire Council Will Help. Mr. Ball's Move Next
The Colletts' Crossing bridge was again before the Jemalong Shire Council on Saturday. A letter was received from the Under-Secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Toll Roads Again
The almost forgotten toll roads have been revived in some localities, we are told in "The Engineering News-Record" (New York). In Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Condobolin Railway Service
The proprietor of this paper (M. J. Condon) presided at a meeting of the executive of the N. S. W. Country Press Association, in Sydney, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Trip Sydney and Back
On Xmas Eve a party comprising Mr and Mrs Podmore and daughter, Mr Cummins and the writer (M. J. Condon) left, the Commercial Bank…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parkes Aerodrome Site. Request Turned Down
At the Forbes P. P. Board meeting on Monday (says the "Advocate") a further letter was received from the Parkes Municipal Council with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →F. & S. Association. Tax on Motor Lorries
The monthly meeting of the Parkes branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in the Shire Chambers on Saturday afternoon, the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Deaths by Violence Record Year for Coroner More Motor Fatalities
Last year was a record one for the City Coroner. The deaths by violence in the metropolitan area totalled 561, an increase of 39 on 1923, according…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Ablaze Motor Cyclist's Escape
An employee of the Wagga Council, C. W. Taylor, had a narrow escape from being burnt to death while pouring petrol into the tank of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Page of Interest to Motorists Why Trucks Wear Out How to Delay It
Not many mouths ago the writer was in a wen-known but remote dairying village the South Coast of N.S.W., where the rich cream of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Personal
Shunter E. A. Rumble, Harden, has been appointed signalman. Porter L. Armstrong, Harden, appointed to shunter. Junior Porter S. E. Lane,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor News and Notes Why Trucks Wear Out
Not many months ago the writer was in a well-known but remote dairying village on the South Coast of N. S.W., where the rich cream of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Merriganowry Bridge
From Dept. of L.G., to Messrs. P. F. Loughlin and H. Main, M’s..L.A., : Your representation on behalf of the Waugoola Shire Council…
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The President: I am informed that the decking at Chery Tree Falls bridge is in a bad state. Boree Shire Council have been attending to same, but…
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Mr. J. H. Fagan, Mulyan, Cowra, wrote:—I beg to ask you to have repaired the two very boggy patches on the Cowra to Burrowa road, viz.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →De Garis Mystery Reported Flight by Aeroplane (By Wire) Monday Evening
Two detectives who first obtained information that it was believed to be De Garis who was at Mortlake, set out this morning to investigate the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bad Crossing in Creek On Barmedmad-Temora Road Shire Council Moving
Recently the West Wyalong Chamber of Commerce wrote the Bland Shire Council, drawing attention to the bad crossing an the creek on the…
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