Minister's Move on Coastal Road Proposal
The Minister for Transport (Mr O'Sullivan) has been in touch with the Main Roads Commissioner on the proposal to build a road along the coast from the Brunswick to the Tweed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
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Low Road Toll Reflects Safety Council Success
For the two years ended an October 31,1947, two people were killed in road, accidents in Lismore and 54 injured, the Secretary of the Road Safety Council of N.S.W. (Col. H. A. Youden) said at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Head-on Collision on Bexhill Road Cyclists Seriously Injured
Two men were seriously injured when the motor cycle they were riding was mangled in a head-on collision with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Transport
Emergency road transport will operate from the time of complete cessation of the railways on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Party Urges Special Funds From Taxes For Road Works
From the total tax on every gallon of petrol sold 6½d went into consolidated revenue, said Mr. M. F. Bruxner, M.L.A., when he addressed delegates at a conference of the Tenterfield Electorate Council of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Excursion Travel
The Secretary for Railways, Mr. S. R. Nicholas, has announced that arrangements have been made for the issue of excursion tickets (at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fall From Train
SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Ian Young, aged about 30, of Oxford Street, Collingwood, Melbourne, was killed instantly when he fell from a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Praise for Work of M'bah Branch of Road Safety Council
The Road Safety Council of New South Wales was pleased with the progress made by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Losses in Railways and Road Transport
SYDNEY, Monday: The Government will consider drastic changes in administration in the New South Wales Railways and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Injured by Motor Car
BALLINA, Monday. -- Enid Merle Cheadle, 20, of 372 River Street, Ballina, was slightly injured when knocked down by a car last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Banana Train Arrangements For Review MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.--
Owing to carters in Melbourne refusing to continue to work on Saturdays, the Banana Growers' Federation has agreed to review the train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Hurt in Motor-Gycle Accident
When the lights failed on a motor cycle on which they were travelling during a rainstorm late on…
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BALLINA, Wednesday. -- Ballina Cycle Club will hold a nine-mile road race on Saturday. Competitors in the junior event will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Funeral Train a 'Temple on Wheels'
NEW DELHI, Thursday (AAP).--Huge crowds of Indians overran Mahatma Gandhi's funeral…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plan to Make Motor Vehicles in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Thursday: The Italian engineer and automobile racer, Ernesto Maserati, submitted to President Peron[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Forum "Coast Road" (To the Editor.)
Sir: Allow me space to comment on Tweed Shire Council meeting reported in your issue oi Febraury 5. It appears the old parochial ideas of 50 years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Traders' Association Section "Strongest In State"
The Richmond-Tweed district section of the N.S.W. Motor Traders' Association was the strongest in the State, the Secretary (Mr. K…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Councils Want More Road-work Fianance
SYDNEY, Sunday.--The Australian Council of Local Government Associations has decided to ask the Federal Government to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ballina Loan For Road, Path Works £5,500 APPROVED
BALLINA, Sunday.--A loan of £5,500 for footpath arid road construction has been approved for Ballina Municipal Council by the Department of Local Government. This was announced at a council meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Friday's Train Carried Record Consignment
The consignment of 40,178 cases of bananas which went forward by the special fruit train which left Murwillumbah…
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