Shires to Be Relieved of Cost of Trunk Roads
The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Bruxner) on Tuesday outlined the policy of the Government regarding road construction. Shire…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
951 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 14 of 48
Sequel to DREAM—Passenger's Leap from Moving Train
Dreaming that someone had shouted out "The train has bolted. Jump for your life," Thomas Alder, 33 years of age, a resident of Canberra,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Fees and Taxes. Where Are They ?
At last night's meeting of the Municipal Council, Ald. W. O'Meara pointed out that people had been paying motor fees and taxes for the past three years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors and Motorists. Refund on Motor Registrations
The Chief Secretary's Department, according to the N.R.M.A., remains immovable in its opposition to any amendment of the existing system,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motors and Motorists. Thoroughness of N.r.m.a
An incident illustrating the measure of trouble to which the N.R.M.A. is prepared to go in assisting motorists is related. The case concerns the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Maintenance. Main Roads Board's Provision. Manning Shire's Big Allotment
The Main Roads Board has approved of 23 different programmes of road maintenance works which will be carried out this year by country…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Train Delayed
Becoming derailed about 60 miles from Newcastle, a special, goods train, bound for Kempsey, ploughed up the track for 15 chains before coming to a…
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A PLEA for cooperation between the Commonwealth, the State, and the shires in the construction and maintenance of roads was the keynote of a…
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Harass'd 'porters: Tribes of daughters With a fat mamma. Hebrew brokers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regatta Road Traffic
THE attention of ratepayers and the public generally is drawn to the traffic regulations advertised by the Municipal Council in this issue, which will control the traffic to and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →That Hole in the Road
It was opposite "Cooce" in Main Street, Cundletown. No special features about it—a common hole in the highway (used us a main road relief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jump for His Life. Leap Prom North Coast Train Travelling 40 M.p. Hour
To escape with only abrasions to the face and legs, after jumping from a passenger train travelling at 40 m. p. hour, was the experience of Thos…
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Notes
A CURIOUS TROUBLE. CAUSED BY WORN TAPPET ROLLER PINS. An engine was gently taken down for decarbonisation and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bradfield Bridge
A judgement which Chief Justice Dethridge delivered in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court Thursday will have the effect of further…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tarred Roads and Cars
So successful has been the half-mile experimental tarred strip on the Uralla Road, near Armidale, that the Main Roads Board has authorised the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crescent Head Road "Absolutely Abominable."
The proprietor of the Wingham "Chronicle," who recently visited the Macleay, and has subsequently published some reference to this district,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crescent Head Road. Corduroy Gives Way
A correspondent writes: Owing to the state of the corduroy road near Crescent Head, as a result of its many weeks' immersion in the flood waters,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Belbora Creek Road Deviation. Yesterday's Council Meeting
At yesterdays meeting of the Gloucester Shire Council a letter was read from Messrs Sparke and Helmore, on behalf of H. & W. Flannery, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Fatality
A boy named Raymond Scarlett, 14, was killed in a motor accident at Lime-burner's Creek on Friday evening last. A motor lorry, driven by Mr. George…
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