Motor Vessel's Record Voyage Sydney
When the Swedish motor vessel Kanangoora reached Sydney yesterday from Oslo, the master, Captain B. Lilliestierna. announced that on the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
3,140 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 157
Road Collision Fatal Youth Dies in Hospital
Lindsay Hammil, 16, of Throsby-street, Wickham, who was injured in a collision with a motor-lorry in Wickham yesterday morning, died last night in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Plan For Road Safety: Doctor - Alderman Gives Some Suggestions
A stricter testing by opthalmic surgeons and qualified optometrists of applicants for motor drivers' licences is urged by Alderman R. G. Pittar, of the Greater Newcastle Council. He also suggests that persons with defective tight or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pot-hole in Road Cyclist Cut by Steel in Fall Accidental Death Verdict
"This was a most unusual accident and would not have happened if the road had been free of pot-holes," said the District Coroner (Mr. A. C. Chiplin) at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Councillors Elected Australian Railways Union
Messrs. T. L. Sawyer, A. R. Outteridge and T. M. Hickey have been elected to the State Council of the Australian Railways Union…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Tram Incident
Sir—When travelling from an outlying suburb, I saw two elderly ladies boarding the tram, one carrying a heavy suit case; the other and much older one had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Yachting
Handicap races conducted by the Northern branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club on Toronto Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Railway Station With a History to Close
A railway station patronise by kings and queens is shortly to be closed, says the "Sunday Chronicle." Port Victoria station was opened in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Injured at Mayfield Collision Between Cycle and Motor Cycle
Three people were injured when a motor bicycle and a push bicycle collided in Maitland-road, Mayfield, this afternoon. All were treated by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For the Souls of War Horses Title Deeds of Motor Cars Tokio, Friday. System May Not Be Compulsory SYDNEY
Thousands of Australian horses, or horses bred from Australian stock, which have been killed at Japanese Army mounts, in the fighting in China, will be honored It is not yet certain whether it will be obligatory, or optional, upon owners of motor vehicles to possess deeds of titles to their vehicles, when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Fire Amidst the Ice (Aboard Motorship Wyatt Earp) December 13
PERIL by fire struck the motor-ship, Wyatt Earp, in the midst of the Antarctic drift-ice. During the last neck, the pack about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coalfields Road
The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. E. S. Spooner) referred in a letter to Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., to representations which had been made…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Harbor Bridge Surplus Is Now £100,000
Because of the increasing volume of traffic, the burden of paying off the Sydney Harbor bridge is becoming easier for those who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Killed: 15 INJURED Grim Week-end Road Toll Car Capsized at West Maitland Pacific Highway Collision
Two men lost their lives and 15 others were injured, four of them seriously, in motor accidents in the Newcastle and Maitland district…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Washaways Repaired Trans-Continental Railway MELBOURNE
Washaways on the trans-Continental railway have been repaired sufficiently to allow trains to get through, and no further delays are expected, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Railways Union A.R.U. Will Test Bona Fides SYDNEY
The Secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. Lloyd Ross) declared yesterday that if the new Railways Operating Employees' Union applied for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Killed in Car Crash Australian Motoring Journalist PARIS, January 22
Major R. Calvert Empson, an Australian, who was covering the Monte Carlo motor rally for Allied Newspapers with Mrs. Kay Petre, the well-known racing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rushed Dying Wife to Hospital Dramatic Dash In Motor-cycle SYDNEY
With his dying wife in the side car, a husband made a dramatic cycle dash last night to South Sydney Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Men Complain of Motorists Who Endanger Their Lives
Complaints have reached ,the N.R.M.A. from country districts that the lives of men working on the roads are often endangered by motorists who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Buses—a Road Menace
Sir,—Permit me as a car driver to protest against the lack of road courtesy and positively dangerous driving of many of the bus drivers in Newcastle…
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