Motor-cyclist Fined Prosecution Under New Act SYDNEY
The first prosecution under one on the provisions of the Speed Limit Bill, passed by Parliament last session, took place at Paddington Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1938
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Railways Open Year with New Records Sydney
Record rail travel figures for the four days of the New Year holidays were announced to-day. Fifty-one more trains were required and 9000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Extra Train on Saturdays
The Railway Department has decided to run an extra train from Newcastle to Sydney to cope with the increased traffic on Saturday mornings. The train will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Taree Train Will Start From Broadmeadow
The Railway Department announces that in future the 12.40 a.m. train from Newcastle to Taree will start from the Broadmeadow shunting yards…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Road Races Banned Police Warn Cyclists
A surprise development following the introduction of the 30 miles an hour speed limit has been in the banning of road cycling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road to Peace Sir Norman Angell on Collective Security
The view that a [?] could support collective security, not as the best solution but as the lesser, evil and as something on the road toward his own goal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Knocked Off Engine Driver Drowns After Fall from Bridge Wellington (N.z.)
Apparently striking a bridge abutment while leaning out of the cab to ascertain the cause of a knocking noise in the engine, Joseph Mosley, a railway locomotive…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Thursday, January 6 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Trespassed on Railway
For having trespassed in Broadmeadow railway marshalling yards on January 6, Albert George Maxfield, 22, carpenter George Dubois, 22, labourer, Maxwell…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Gaol Van Hits Tram Demsey Case Accused Inside Nobody Was Injured Melbourne
The prison van in which the four men accused of the murder, of John Thomas Demsey were being, returned from the inquest to Pentridge Goal this afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Yachting To-morrow's Races Handicaps on Toronto Bay
The Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club will hold races on Toronto Bay to-morrow afternoon Handicap events in the speedboat section are…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Use of Motor Horns
While the N.R.M.A. is entirely in sympathy with any movement to prohibit the unnecessary use of motor horns, the association is opposed to any official action…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WHY 30,000 Men Were Sacked Motor Magnate's Explanation Washington, Thursday, [?]
The President of General Motors Ltd. (Mr. Knudsen) told the Senate Unemployment Investigating Committee that he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Model Aeroplane Display
A Model aeroplane display will be given at Newcastle Aerodrome on Saturday, January 22, at 2.30 p.m. Petrol engine model aeroplanes will take the air, and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Coroner on Road Deaths Sydney
Road accidents were responsible for the majority of the 235 deaths on which the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. George R. Williams) held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Must Refund £300 Grant Kearsley Council & Bridge Plans
Unless Kearsley Shire Council decides to carry out its plans for the construction of a bridge at Fourth Street, Weston. It will have to refund…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seeks Bridge Honors Dudley Moss on Way Abroad Sydney
On his way to America and Great Britain for contract bridge matches Mr. Dudley Moss arrived from Melbourne by the Mariposa…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aero Club Building in Ailsa-road Council Defers Application
Newcastle Aero Club proposes to spend £900 on a weatherboard cottage in Alisa-road. The land has been divided into two allotments on each of which…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Cycling No Road Races Advice to Clubs from Police
Carrington, Newcastle, and Cardiff League Cycling Clubs have abandoned the road raced scheduled for to-day and to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Yachting
Handicap events, for speedboats and cruisers, conducted by Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club, on Toronto Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Railways and Beautification
Sir,—I am sure many other readers of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" enjoyed reading "Patricia's" "Fifteen minutes to spend" in the "Newcastle Morning…
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