539 Road Deaths in Year Speeding Motorists Blamed Sydney
"During the past year 539 people have been sent to their graves through road accidents, mostly caused By speeding motorists," said Sergeant…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1937
3,526 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 177
Motor-cyclist Killed Went Off Road at Miranda SYDNEY
When his motor-cycle and side-car crashed over a culvert off Port Hacking road, Miranda, early to-day, George A. Faulkner, 42, of George-street, Yowie Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Collision on Bridge 'Bus Passenger's Death
When a motor car and a bus collided at Salty Creek Bridge, Gosford, on December 27. Ronald Henry Vaughan, 19, Bondella Road, The Entrance, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Party Expected Special Train to Sydney
It is anticipated that between 400 and 500 Newcastle district residents will take part in next Sunday's excursion to Sydney, which has been arranged by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Working Conditions in Road Camp Trades Hall Report
The president of the Northern Provincial Council of Unemployed and Belief Workers (Mr. J. Oliver), who has recently returned from a visit to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Deaths Grim December Record 539 Last Year Mr. Maddocks Concerned SYDNEY
The improvement in road accident statistics during the third quarter of 1936 was not maintained in the final quarter of the year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rush to Adelaide May Upset Test Men Chosen to Play in Shield Game Last-minute Dash for Train Sydney
Cricketers required for the Fourth Test match should be hardly expected to play in the New' South Wales-Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Strikers Riot Motor Plant Seized Battle with Police Additional Factories Close (Australian Associated Press.) FLINT, January 12
Eight hundred strikers rioted today and seized the entire Fisher motor body plant, the second floor of which they have occupied since…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Too Expensive" Coal Petrol for Motors Scientist's Opinion Chemists Needed to Study Possibilities Wellington (N.z.)
The opinion that petrol and oil produced from coal would be too expensive for the ordinary motorist was expressed to-day by Sir David Rivett, chief executive officer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →32 Drowned in Wreck Maiden Voyage's Tragic End Motorship in Gale London
Thirty-two persons, including two women and two children, have perished in a wreck, in the stormy Pentland Firth,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work on Sandy Hollow-Maryvale Railway MUSWELLBROOK
In connection with the construction of the Sandy Hollow-Maryvale railway, the Muswellbrook branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Insurance Overload
TRULY the motorist drives along a bumpy road—not the ribbon of highway over which his wheels roll but the track which is paved with his taxes, fees and charges. He is heavily jolted by the Federal petrol tax, he is jarred by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aeroplane Birthmark Child Born During Air Raid Sydney
Born during an air raid, a youth in the Borstal Institute (England) has a birthmark on his back in the shape of an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Left London by Ordinary Train King Returns to Sandringham London
The King and Queen ended a brief visit to London to-day and left for Sandringham by the ordinary afternoon train from Liverpool Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MAITLAND-CESSNOCK-KURRI West Maitland Bridge at Melville Government Offers 60 Per Cent. of Cost
After years of agitation the Government has made a definite offer to the councils concerned to assist in the construction of a new bridge over the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor-car Insurance Increased Premiums Unlikely
Although it was admitted that the question of the adequacy of the existing scale of motor-car insurance premiums had been discussed it was stated in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extend Railway Progress of Speers Point Request to Coordination Committee
Carrington Council decided last night to ask the Local Government Coordination Committee to agitate for a railway to Speers Point…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Withdraw Motor Strike in U.S. Quiet Replaces Violence Flint, January 13
The police withdrew from the Fisher motor body plant to-day, leaving the strikers in possession. Company officials have issued a statement expressing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MR. N. G. Bell Dead First Federal Railway Chief MELBOURNE
Mr. Norris Garrett Bell, who was the first Commonwealth Railway Commissioner, died at his home in Middle Brighton last night, aged 76. Mr. Bell joined…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tramway Union
The Federal Executive of the Tramwaymen's Union advised the executive of the Newcastle branch that the Commissioner for Transport had refused to elect a…
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