Clamor for Roads
Roads, roads, roads. Throughout the Acting Prime Minister's tour from Penrith to Bathurst and back again, the cry for good roads has resounded. Dr…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1924
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Melbourne-sydney Train
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Railway Commissioners deny that there is demand on the part of the public for a Melbourne to Sydney train on Saturdays…
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The official opening of the new Wommin Bay-Cudgen Headland road, and the new public pavilion and dressing sheds, was celebrated in the pavilion on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soaring Flames Road Making Plant Destroyed. Country Lit Up for Miles Around
SYDNEY, Saturday.--W. G. Carr and Co's road making plant at Gordon was destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage was heavy. The fire was…
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America produced 4,014,000 cars in 1923, including 2,000,000 Fords, and the wholesale value of passenger cars alone exceeded 2,000,000,000 dollars…
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HOBART, Saturday.--The Government has refused the request of Mr. W. G. Smith (late railway commissioner) to hold an inquiry into his administration,…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The railway companies having refused the wages concess [?] demanded the Associated Society of Locomotive engineers and Firemen state that a…
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A deputation representing pastoralists waited upon the railway superintend. at Darwin and protested against the use of arsenic to kill grass on the railway line,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Passengers Permission to Break Journey. Grafton Takes Action
GRAFTON, Saturday. — The Grafton Chamber, of Commerce decided at its last meeting to approach the Railway Commissioners, asking them to permit up and down…
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Wanted on charges in different parts of the country, Henry Goulding escaped from custody at. Horsham, Sussex. Goulding was being taken by police to Worthing, and just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Breed Road Hogs to Reach Hogs. Open Season Wanted at Coolangatta
Maud Olive has written a letter to the Coolangatta Municipal Council, protesting against the "tendency of road hogs becoming beach…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Strike Upheaval Expected in England. Complex Situation
LONDON, Sunday.--The "Daily Chronicle's" special labor correspondent says that the railway crisis illustrates the difficulty among the industrial craft…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--The English railway experts who have been engaged to report on the N.S.W. railways, will leave London at the end of March, and it will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Traffic Breaches
The following persons were fined at the, Lismore Police Court yesterday for driving their motor vehicle in Woodlark and Molesworth-streets on December 15 without, tail…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident to Motor Train
When at Bungabee on Saturday the motor train smashed its transmission shaft, and had to be towed to Lismore for repairs. The early…
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The report was allowed to lie on the table for adoption at a later Stage of the proceedings. It will then be presented to the minister…
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Cr. Montgomery moved at the last meeting of the Kyogle Shire Council that tenders be called for a new bridge at Ettrick. He said the present…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The tenders for the Sydney Harbor bridge will be opened by Mr. Ball, Minister for Works, and the Under Secretary tomorrow and…
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At the last meeting of the Kyogle Shire Council, Cr. Waller referred to the heavy traffic in the Bonalbo district which was likely to injure bridges and…
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BANGALOW, Tuesday.—Mr. E. McNiven was on Tuesday last busily engaged securing names to a petition to the Railway Commissioners for an overhead bridge or level…
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