Wagga's New Aerodrome
This week work on Wagga's 'drome four miles along, the Tarcutta road, will be In hand. The council is arranging to borrow £5000 to purchase…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
2,133 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 107
Wagga's Scenic Road
Work has been to progress for some days on the extension of the scene road over Wilians Hill, Wagga, Excellent progress has been made by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Traffic Bridge Catches on Fire
Miss Lil Elliott, of Gundagal, whilst motoring across to South Gundagai, noticed flames leaping up between the decking of Prince Alfred Bridge, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Motor-cycle Accidents Four Persons Injured Gosford
A motor cycle ridden by F. Flemming, aged 22 years, of Cowper-street, Sydney, crashed into an embankment 20 miles on the Gosford side of Peat's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Stolen Motor Car and Cycle
A motor car and a motor cycle both stolen in the main street of Narandera about midnight on Saturday. The police have made extensive…
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The proposed-proclamation of the Bewning-Albury route as a main road is receiving serious consideration by Illabo Shire, and Cr. Robertson, Cr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Temora-junee Road
The "Junee Southern Cross" report of the Illabo Shire Council meeting contains the following: Although only two days was the time available to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. Beryl Markham Passes Through Narandera in Aeroplane
On Thursday last Mrs. Beryl Markham, the famous air-woman who flew the Atlantic solo in 1936, was a passenger on the Ansett Airways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Works' Committee Inspect New Main Road Walbundrie—kywong £2,400 Expenditure Contemplated
The Works' Committee wishes to report that an inspection was made on the 21st December, 1937, at which the president (Cr. J. Nolan), and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Vehicles for Every 8 Persons Sydney
Figures released by the Transport department show that there was a motor vehicle for every 8.8 people in New South Wales, and one license to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Hurt Motor Cycle Capsize Goulburn
Two young men were injured when their motor cycle capsized on the Hume Highway near Goulburn, and the driver, William Grigs, 26, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Successful Railway Station Recaptured Hankow
The Chinese claim to have lessened the threat of losing the Lunghai railway station, as the result of a counter-attack recapturing the Tsining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drove Motor When Drunk Man Fined £20 Disqualified From Holding License for Three Years P.M's Comment on New Law
The first to be tried under the amended motor traffic law, John Davis was fined £20 and disqualified from holding a license for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Obtain Motor Supplies Huge Capital Investments
The average motorist gives little thought to the amount of capital invested, so that he may obtain supplies of petrol, oil, tyres, spare parts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Travelling Health Centre Motor Caravan For Care of Country Mothers and Babies
SOON the people of the distant mallee places will see the big new, buff-colored caravan, the "baby health centre on wheels"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →International Motor Truck New Plant Will Produce 700 Engines Per Day
NEWS has been received that a new plant, exclusively for the manufacture of engines for tho entire new line of International trucks, is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage to Fence Lessons From Speed Records Young Cyclist Injured Defendant Before Court Their Benefit to the Motor Owner Accident at Yanco
Terence Cecil Collins was charged at the Leeton police court on Thursday, before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., with maliciously destroying part of The value of the lessons learnt by the motor industry from speed records, racing, etc., the benefits of which are ultimately passed on to Billy Jordan (17), of Murrami, a well-known local cyclist, met with an accident at Yanco on Sunday morning while riding with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decapitated by Train Sydney
The body at Frederick George Walther, aged 23 years, of Upper Bankstown, who had been decapitated by a train, was found by the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Raid on Railway Shanghai
The Japanese dropped 100 bombs on the Tenchen-Pukow railway to-day, killing and wounding 150 and demolishing many dwellings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railwaymen's Claims "Severe Strain on Nerves" Sydney
Dr. Lloyd Ross, State secretary of the A.R.U., commenting on the decision of the Railway Commissioner to review after the 1938 celebrations the…
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