Worse Record Than U.S.A. Proportion Of Road Deaths In N.S.W. SYDNEY
Proportionately, there were about six times as many road deaths in New South Wales during the Christmas and New Year holiday period as…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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Wife Killed in Motor Accident Man Found Dead in House SYDNEY
With a bullet wound in the head, the body of Brian Boulder, 40, of Glebe, was found in a room at his home to-day. Boulder's wife was killed in a motoring…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Border Railways Tapering Freight Urged Federal Cabinet Interested Melbourne
A its meeting in Hobart this month, the Federal Cabinet is to discuss the unification of railway gauges and what are known as border railway rates. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tram Had Stopped Boy Killed by Car Driver on Manslaughter Charge Sydney
When Oswald Colin Lee, 12, jumped from a tram at Newtown on December 24 he was struck by a car and died later in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collision with Dog Two on Motor-cycle Injured
A collision between a dog and a motor-cycle cycle was responsible for a young man and a young woman being injured in Maitland-road, Islington, last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Injured Motor-cycle Mishaps at Jesmond Machine Through Fence
A young man and two young women were injured when two motor-cycles, travelling together, Were involved in mishaps on the Newcastle-road, Jesmond, last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New British Tramp Steamer Matthew Flinders Here
On her maiden voyage to Australia from the United Kingdom, the new British tramp steamer Matthew Flinders reached Newcastle yesterday to bunker…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Said "Sting" Was in His Beer Novel Plea Of Motor Driver MELBOURNE
The suggestion that a "sting" for a racing greyhound, had been put in his beer, was made by a motor truck driver,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Work at Aerodrome
The second batch of 30 men will begin work to-day, clearing and levelling the aerodrome. Five single men have been included. Employment on this work has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Aeroplane Flights As Cure For Whooping Cough LONDON
The first attempt in Britain to cure whooping cough by a flight into high altitudes was made yesterday. The treatment is regarded as having…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →What People Think Road Safety
I wonder if the following suggestion would be of value to our traffic regulations. Does the public realise that hundreds of potential killers are at large…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tolls Paid on Harbor Bridge Sydney
To cross the Harbor Bridge, a motorist pays 3d toll for himself, a railway passenger pays 1.3ld out of his fare, and a tram or omnibus passenger pays…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Traffic Police For Main Country Roads SYDNEY
The strengthening of police traffic patrols, to enable them to operate on main arterial roads in the country, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Youth Killed' Tn Holiday Road Smash
At East Maitland Courthouse to-day the District Coroner (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M.) held an inquiry into the death of Alexander Patrick Nowlan,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Killed Road Toll in Holidays One in Similar Period in 1937
Fatal road accidents in the North over the Christmas and New Year holidays showed an increase over the corresponding period in 1937. In the last holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Forestry Road Camp Job for Newcastle Unemployed Deputation Told Men Not Absorbed By Water Board Works SYDNEY
Unemployed not absorbed in the full-time works programme of the Hunter District Water Board will be given work on a forestry road…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maximum Fine Woman Motorist "Under Influence" MELBOURNE
The maximum fine of £30 for having driven a car while she was under the influence of liquor was imposed on Irene Fare at the City Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petition Presented to Minister Replacement of Trams Sought Port Waratah-carrington Routes
Mr. F. H. Hawkins, M.L.A., said yesterday that a petition demanding the replacement of trams for 'buses for the Port Waratah and Carrington routes had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Water As Fuel for Motor Car
Fred. Dicy, of Ontario, claims the invention of a conversion unit for the motor car engine whereby water is substituted for benzine as fuel. He…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Manufacture of Motors in Australia Sydney
"The Commonwealth Government has received several inquiries regarding the manufacture of motor-cars in Australia," sold the Minister for…
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