"Give Some Back" Alderman and Motor Taxes
Alderman Robinson moved at Merewether Council last night that the council ask the co-operation of other councils to demand from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1927
3,010 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 151
Ran Under Tram Young Child Injured
Jack Lobley, aged one year 11 months, ran under the tram at Carrington tram terminus this afternoon. He was taken from Carrington tram…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Case Stopped Woman Motorist Acquitted Bottle of Port
When Mrs. Hay Greenfield, aged 32, Was charged recently at London Sessions with having been drunk in charge of a car, the jury stopped the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ratepayers' Problem New Glebe Tram Stop
Alderman Rowlands presented a petition to Merewether Council last night from 60 ratepayers asking for a tram stop between Hickson and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Westy Too! Steam Trams May Go
Wallsend Council last night decided to co-operate with Lake Macquarie Shire, and to get the assistance of other councils in urging the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Murray Bridge Melbourne
The Murray Waters Commission has announced that it has commenced preliminary work in connection with the building of a bridge over the Murray two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Legs Cut Off Girl Falls Under Train SYDNEY
In attempting to alight from a moving train at the Pendle Hill railway station last night, Lilian Battle, aged 14 years, of Ettalong-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Overcrowded Trams
W. Waldron, of New Lambton, as a retired station master of long experience in three different countries, writes to complain of the manner in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trains and Motors
The Railway Department to becoming concerned at the competition of the motor service and not without good cause. This was the heaviest season…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Maitland District Motor Man Held Up Near Farley
A motor car, driven by a resident of Kurri Kurri, was held up near Farley last evening by two men, one of whom presented a revolver at the driver, who took…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Fights Galore" Joyriding on City Railway Alderman's Protest Sydney
"Joy-riding" on the Underground was denounced by the Hurstville council. Alderman ward said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bad Roads Merewether Requirements
Alderman Scoular claimed, at the last Merewether Council nicotine, that the two worst directs in the municipality wore Mary-street, where there was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Utter Failure!" Roads Board Criticised
The Main Roads Board is experimenting." said Alderman Rae, at Wallsend Council last week. The council was discussing a proposal to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Bearings Special Train Needed LONDON
A special train, travelling on two lines of railway track, transporter' from Darlington Docks tan of the biggest bearings known to the biggest bearings known to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traffic Held Up Kurri-Maitland Road
A further fall of rain has again interfered with the running of traffic over the Kurri-Maitland Road. During the week-end 52 points was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Building, Engineering & Machinery Concrete Roads International Experts Confer Methods Compared
The Permanent international Association of Road Congresses oraganised a gathering in Millan, attended by over 50 official delegations totalling a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cost of Strikes Railways Badly Hurt LONDON, S[?]day
A statistical report on British railways reveals that the total general strike and coal stoppage losses in passenger and goods traffic exceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For Sydney Bridge
A special train, travelling along two parallel lines of track transported from Darlington to Middlesborough docks two of the biggest bearings known to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road to Newcastle Motoring to Brooklyn
Motorists, advises the N.R.M.A. touring department, are now proceeding to Hawkesbury River from Sydney via Hornsby and Berowra, by using the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boys Seize a Train
Thirty high school students, ten of whom are under 16 years of age, were recently sent to gaol at Philadelphia as the result of "a frolic" after a football…
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