Motor Oil Up 1½d. QUART
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Prices Branch today approved an increase in the price of first grade motor oil…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1952
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Engineer New Commissioner for Railways
SYDNEY, Friday.—State Cabinet today appointed Keith Aird Fraser, Chief Civil Engineer of the Railways Department, as Railways Commissioner. His appointment will take…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three people were killed and at least nine others were injured, including three children, in road accidents in N.S.W. during the weekend. An elderly woman was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Gas Turbine Train
The first British built gas turbine locomotive was seen in public for the first time at Paddington, London. Built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Co., the locomotive is powerful enough to draw the heaviest passenger train on the steepest gradient. It has a maximum speed of 90 m.p.h. and weighs about 130 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Support for Motor Cycle Club
A group of Lismore motor cyclists who attended a meeting of the Lismore branch of the Road Safety Council decided to form a motor cycle club…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Friday. —A start has been made at Tweed Heads on a loan works scheme estimated to cost…
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CASINO, Friday.—Tomki Shire Council's programme of road repairs has gone ahead rapidly in the present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ballina Road Race To A. Cummings
Ballina Cycling Club's nine mile road race resulted in a win for Anzac Cummings, off scratch…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aerodrome Protest Supported
CASINO, Monday.—Casino Chamber of Commerce tonight suported the Shire and Municipal Councils in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Sags
Main Roads Department engineers will make a check on the levels of the piles of the low level bridge which crosses…
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In Australia during 1951, 1960 people had been killed in road accidents, mainly through speed and driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor, in most cases associated, said Mr…
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Rex Waldron, of Geneva, was fined £2, plus 12/- court costs, in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Substitute Bridge Not Council Job
The Mayor of Lismore, Ald. R. Granger, referring to the substitute bridge over Wilson's Creek, said it was being built…
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Byron Shire Council decided at a meeting that the president, Cr. E. W. Hatfield, and the engineer, Mr. W. A. Bunyon, should confer with Tweed Shire Council on the completion of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Motorists Fined
A man was fined £5 in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions, by Mr. K. Anderson, S.M., on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Bridge Subsidence
A further serious subsidence of the low level bridge constructed over Wilson's Creek in Lismore occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Better Roads Planned for Subdivisions
Lismore City Council may require subdivides to construct black roads in all new subdivisions within the city boundary. At a meeting of the Works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weeds—hazard to Road Safety
Weeds were so high in Pound Street, East Lismore, that small children coming home from school…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Injured
MURWILLUMBAH, Monday.—A motor cyclist, Edmund Barry North, was admitted to Tweed District Hospital,…
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A serious subsidence has occurred on the low level bridge over Wilson's Creek at Lismore, which was built to carry traffic over the river during repairs to the main bridge. (See story Page 4.)…
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