General News Bridge Worker Injured
Mr. McDougall sustained a slight injury while at work on the new bridge at Mullumbimby on Wednesday. It was stated that a plank fell from…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
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Gundurimba Shire Ballina Road Drainage Schemes
Councillor A. Cameron (president) occupied the chair at the meeting of the Gundurimba Shire Council in Lismore yesterday. Councillors W. H…
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Taxi-cab driver in the King's Bench Division: I have been a total abstainer ever since I started driving.—Mr. Justice Talbot: A good many people now…
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Claimed to be more powerful and aconomical than ordinary petrol, a new motor spirit distilled from sugarcane has been prepared by Brazilian sugar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Column. Tar Stains
When driving over a freshly tarred road, no matter how carefully one proceeds it is almost impossible to avoid spattering the paint work with the black…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Motor Smash Car and Cycle Collide
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--As the result of a collision between a motor car and motor cycle on Bendigo. Road last night, Roland Kirk (36), of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Construction Works. Interesting Film
Operations in connection with tho construction of the Kyogle-Border railway have been perpetuated by means of a moving picture taken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Delayed Wedding. Bridesmaid and Motor
A fine of £50, or imprisonment for four months, was the penalty imposed at Sydney on Donald Macdonald, aged 30 years, a clerk, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Cycle Tragedy. Coroner's Inquiry
The following additional evidence was given at the Coroner's inquiry at Casino on Monday, touching the [?] of Edward J. Rooney, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Notes. Points on Rear-brake-main-tenance
Neglect of the means provided for lubricating the brake camshafts of rear-wheel brakes is responsible for the reduction of braking efficiency…
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There are, according to the N.R.M.A., two road pests each of whom scores 100 per cent, as a double-barreled, altogether-awful weariness of…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A bridge over Winding Creek, near Branxton, is reported to have been partly destroyed. It is also reported that a tree on the…
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"There is a wonderfully human appeal in the doctrine of the road safety movement— unselfish and universal," says the acting-chairman of the N.R…
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One direct result of the reconstruction of Parramatta Road in the past decade and of its conversion into a super-highway during the last couple…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Axle Broke Wheat Train Derailed Per. Way Damaged
GOULBURN, Friday.--Shortly before 6 o'clock last night, 13 wheat trucks attached to No. 92 goods train, from Goulburn to Sydney, became derailed…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--White the first division of the Melbourne express was between Murrumburrah and Yass this morning, a woman in a steeping berth…
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The proposed bridge across the river from the Tenterfield road to link up with Canterbury-street was the note struck by Cr. W. Sullivan (president),…
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CAIRNS, Friday.--Thirty-six inches of rain have been recorded at Pawngilly during the past five days. The whole of the district is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring Section the Motor World Notes From the N.R.M.A
The safety island in England has proved so satisfactory that the Ministry of Transport has decided to adopt the principle in the case of all arterial…
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WOLLONGONG, Thursday.--Ernest Cleall (33), a local resident, was fatally injured to-day when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a…
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