Kempsey Suffers From Bad Road
Mr. W. Woodward, principal of the firm of Woodward & Purkiss, told aldermen of Grafton City Council on Tuesday night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1952
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Road Safety Council Seeks Realignment at Purfleet
Taree Read Safety Council Branch will ask Manning Shire Council to take appropriate action to have the Highway band at Purfleet realigned…
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Further representation will be made to the local police officers re traffic signs in certain parts of the town, where it is…
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A 17-year-old carpenter's apprentice, Donald Barnett, of Gladstone, was critically injured in a collision between a motor-cycle and a light utility motor truck at the corner of Dangar and Sea Streets,…
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Mr. L. C. Jordan, MLA, has been informed as follows by the Administrator, Road Transport Branch, Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More People Killed on Country Roads Now, Says Traffic Chief
More persons were killed on the road in country districts than in the city during the first four months of this year. The New South Wales Superintendent of Traffic (Superintendent W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Club Cited by Judiciary Committee
Officials of the Taree Railway Club have been cited to appear before Manning League's Judiciary Committee for containing to play forward V. White in the Railway team follows a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To Finish Aerodrome
The Minister for Civil Aviation on Saturday informed Mr. P. E. Lucock, M.H.R. that Aldavilla Aerodrome would be completed within two or…
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The Macleay Shire Council discussed two matters to-day in respect of the Construction of Toorooka bridge…
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The new development road on the Upper Macleay, known as the Burrega Flat road, was mentioned at to-day's…
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Mr. Donald Barnett, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hartley Barnett, of Gladstone, sustained shocking injuries on Wednesday evening when…
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Two letters were before Macleay Shire Council on Wednesday in connection with roads at the Kempsey…
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Mr. Bon Gibson, who travelled to Nowendoc, via Cooplacurripa, yesterday (Thursday), that he was amazed at the…
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It will be some weeks yet before engine repairs are effected to enable the restoration of the diesel train to the…
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A deputation from the Collombatti-Tanban area asked the Macleay Shire Council meeting on Wednesday, amongst other matters, for co-operation in having an overhead railway bridge erected near…
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"Except for the pier which was put in about six years ago, the whole structure should be condemned. While waiting for concurrence by the Department of Main Roads the corbels on this bridge should be condemned. New corbels are essential."…
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Roy Milligan, working on the Gloucester River Bridge, had a miraculous escape from death on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Motor Traffic Cases at Gloucester Court of Petty Sessions. (Before Mr. L. E Stapleton, S.m.)
The June sitting of the local Court might more aptly be titled a Motor Parade. With two or three exceptions, the fairly lengthy list had to do with traffic and motor, vehicle offences, but as none was defended,…
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"I take a very serious view of this matter. Too many owners are having their cars smashedand damaged when used by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramp's Story is Always True Underneath
Jim Phelan is a writer and also a tramp and, in a BBC talk, he maintained that the two were fundamentally the same. The writer sends his story to the editor, but the tramp tells his to…
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