Railway Picnic
The Northern railway employees annual picnic, postponed from Saturday last owing to rain, will take place on February 23 at Guyra. The public…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
1,882 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 95
Motor Car Education Ford Method
There is no commodity that is so much talked of as the motor car. In the younger generation of to-day the' [?]nt for mechanics is remarkably-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Main Roads Board Administration
What is wrong with the administration of the Main Roads Board—an organisation, that came into being with a flourish of trumpets, and heralded as the vanguard of a great decentralisation move?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fortnight in Train Queensland Floods. SYDNEY
A message from Brisbane states that as a result of the floods, 84 western passengers at Julia Creek are still stranded in the carriages, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brodie's Plains Purchase of Road. Land Board Refuses Permission
At the Land Board on Wednesday, Patrick Walsh, of Brodie's Plains (executor of the estate of the late Patrick Walsh), applied for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FLOODS Cloncurry Bridge Rendered Useless. 84 Passengers Stranded. Serious Position at Mt. Isa. Brisbane
A message from Brisbane says that as the result of floods, 84 western passengers at Julia are stilt stranded in carriages, in which they have beeu…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GELIGNITE Found on Railway. SYDNEY
Two plugs of gelignite, similar to that used in the mines, were found on the railway at West Maitland yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Destructive Fire. Caused by Careless Motorist. Melbourne
A [?]igarette butt dropped by a moter ist caused a serious fire in Wannon Valley near the Grampians. yesterday. About 2500 acres were swept by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor World Notes and News From All Quarters. Australia's Mystery Car. Same lntimate Details. 146 Miles an Hour
Considerable, Interest has been shown on all sides by the deeds of Mr. Norman "Wizard" Smith With his mystery car on Ninety Mile…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motorists and Hospitals
"There is no reason to believe that motorists as a class are less generous in their contributions to hospitals than any other section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Motor World. ([?] and Notes From the [?]
The N.R.M.A. reports that a coniderable length of tar surfacing has been ca[?]ded out on the Mid-Western Hignway within the municipality of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Where to Park. Problem for Motorists
One of the problems that afflicts the automobile industry at, the prose: me is that of parking. For the motor vehicle to be as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Round Australia By Motor Car
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bates, of Cremorne, Sydney, returned here on Sunday, after having Completed what proved to be a very enjoyable and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Attempt to Wreck Train
What appeared to be a deliberate attempt to derail a passenger train at Razorback was discovered on Yednesday, just before the arrival of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Purchase Application Postponed by Board
Before the Inverell Land Board last week Mary Elizabeth Darcy, wife of John P. Darcy, Inverell, applied for the enclosure and purchase of a road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cars Collide. Smash on Uralla Road
Two motor cars were severely damaged in a collision on the Uralla road on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crash on Maitland Road. Maitland
When a motor car left the road and overturned on Maitland road, Hexham, last, night, six persons were more or less seriously injured. Two were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cheap Railway Excursions
For the convenience and pleasure of all who were unable to take advantage of the cheap excursion trains arranged by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Production Importers Alarmed SYDNEY
The president of the Motor Traders' Association, referring to a hint made to the Federal Government that it might assist maerially in its object…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Fatalities Cycle and Car Collide ADELAIDE
James Smith, 34, and Colleen Hamilton, 14 months were fatally injured as a result of a head-on collision between a motor cycle and sidecar and…
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