Complete Failure. Old Road Making Methods.inverell Tackles Problem
At last meeting of the Inverell Municipal Council Ald. Butler said that he thought the town engineer's proposed programme for the coming year wanted…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1926
4,747 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 238
Motors and Cancer
In a paper on genetic study at a cancer symposium conducted by the American Society of Zoologists, Dr. Strong, of the Bussey institute of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Conductor Assaulted Sydney
William Henry (34), a tram conductor, was collecting fares on a Cook's River tram about midnight when he had occasion to remove two men under the influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improved Aeroplane. For Night Flying
LONDON, Sunday. The [?]newest Imperial Airways express machine is specially designed for night flying. It is fitted with improved gyroscopic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Roads (To the Editor.)
Sir,— The provision and upkeep of good roads is a matter that requires careful consideration in view of the ever increasing motor traffic, and any information us to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man and Machine Latest Aeroplane Express! (Reuter.) LONDON
The recent tendency of aeroplane safety devices to turn the pilot into something in the nature of a mere machine-minder is exemplified in the latest Imperial Airways…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Shore Bridge Delay Sydney
Work on the North Shore bridge is being held up owing to the difficulty in getting suitable men to work in the quarries at Moruya, where granite is being taken. In…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Shore Bridge. Skilled Workmen Scarce
SYDNEY, Monday. Work on the North Shore Bridge is being held up, owing to the difficulty in getting suitable men to work in the quarries at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Runs Into Crossing Gates Melbourne
The second division of the Sydney to Melbourne express dashed through a level crossing at Bonnybrook yesterday afternoon. The gates were smashed, but no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Good Roads. Tribute to the Tableland and Nor-west
One of the surprises experienced by the N.R.M.A. road reporting party, which has just completed a tour of nearly 3000 miles through northern N.S.W. in an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Main Roads Board's Policy Chairman's Statement Problems of Local Government Measure of Assistance to Municipalities
Messrs. J. Garlick (chairman) and H. H. Newell, members of the Main Roads Board of New South Wales, spen the week-end in the Richmond district. Yesterday they saw the Tintenbar, Terania, and Gundurimba Shire Councils,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rich Resources Hidden in a Valley the Fertile Bonalbo District Wonderful Possibilities Of Development Held Up by Awful Roads
There are two ways of doing most tilings —the right way and the wrong. In the innumerable efforts which-have, been made by various Governments in the past to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →44 Hours Week Variation of Awards Railways' Five Days Arbitration Court Appeals Sydney
The Arbitration Court was crowd today when applications were made for variation in a number of awards pursuant to the 44 Hours Week Act…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycle Accident Sydney
A motor cycle and side car driven by George Case (18) collided with a motor ear in Anzac Parade, Kensington. Case sustained several fractured ribs, abrasions to…
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"I question whether it would not be the better policy to let the main roads go for a while and concentrate on the secondary roads," remarked Councillor J. W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Building Strength of Materials
When the Manchester Ship Canal was opened, an American engineer criticised what be hold to be an unduly lavish use of granite, mach of which might, he considered, have…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bridge of Suicides Auckland
Alfred Hanscomb, a tramway motorman, committed suicide by jumping from Grafton Bridge, making the second similar suicide within a week…
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A report has been furnished to Richmond Council (Melbourne) by the municipal engineer (Mr. J. T. N. Anderson) regarding the successful outcome of the council's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wireless on Train. German Trial Succeeds
LONDON, Tuesday.-Reuter's Berlin correspondent reports that the installation of wireless telephony on a train from Berlin to Hamburg to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Race to the Poles. Aeroplane Versus Airship. Wilkins and Amundsen Preparing
LONDON, Monday. Spring will witness what virtually is a race to the Arctic. Men already are working on the hangar for Amundsen's airship for the project…
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