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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1932

2,029 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 7 of 102

Local and General News Railway Mishap

Leader · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 2

Cecil Be[?]conl a porter at the Orange r[?]way station, received painful injuries during the course of his work on Saturday morning. He was…

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Tragic Death. [?] at Railway Station

Leader · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 1

Death overtook H[?]l John Gordon [?] Avenue, [?] Orange, suddenly on Friday morning. The young man bad purchased…

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Mid-Summer Railway Excursions

Leader · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 3

Residents of country districts are being splendidly catered for by the Railway Department in the provision of frequent excursion trains at low…

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Motor Fatality. Hairpin Bend Capsize. SYDNEY

Leader · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 2

Miss Muriel Halan Fish-wick, of Roast Ms, was killed on the G[?]gong Road, yesterday, through a car…

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Motor Cars an Amazing' Decline Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 1

The number of motor vehicles on Australian roads has decreased by the amazing total of nearly 49,000 during the year 1931 according to the figures…

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Motor Notes Piston Rings and Lost Compression

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 4

Two not uncommon sources of trouble with the piston rings are gumming up and chance alignment of the split ends; either of which faults…

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Stolen Motor Car Charge at Bathurst Police Court an Unusual Case Good Work by Nurses and Volunteers Melbourne

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 1

Charged with having at Newtown stolen a motor car valued at £150, the property of Charles Southwell, Edward Joseph O'Brien (30) a returned The combined efforts of nurses and volunteers, wore responsible for the saving of the Walhalla Hospital after it had ignited as a result of bush…

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Motor Car Case Charge of Illegal Use A Bathurstian Exonerated SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 2

At the Newtown Police Court to-day Thomas Rupert Donnelly (32), who was remanded from the Bathurst Police Court last week on a charge, of…

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Country Boys To See Harbour Bridge Pageant and Royal Show

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 1

Applications are being received from boys in an parts of the State to witness the historic opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Young Australia…

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Indian Unrest Terrorists Active Attempt to Wreck Train Driver and Passenger Injured Calcutta

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 2

Terrorists are believed to have been responsible for sabotage on the East Indian railway, when on express front" Calcutta to Benares…

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Railway "Call" Fund Year's Splendid Work

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 4

The seventh annual general meeting of the Railwaymen's Sick and Mutual Benefit Club was held on Sunday. There was a record attendance…

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Chinese Crisis. Railways Gard[?] SHANG[?]

Leader · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 2

Frantic preparation are being made by the Chine[?] a[?] to withstand the threatened Japa[?] forcible…

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Off the Roads Motorists Feel the Strain

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 15

To-day there are 49,674 fewer motor vehicle—can, buses trucks, vans, motor cycles—on Australian roads than at Recember 31, 1930,…

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Special Stock Train

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 8

A special stock train, consisting of 20 trucks of fat sheep and cattle, was despatched from the local station for the Homebush market on…

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Bridge Lottery Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 3

In an announcement to-day, the Director of the New South Wales Lottery, Mr. W. H. Whiddon, said that the 33rd lottery would be drawn…

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Cycle Road Race

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 12

The 10 miles cycle road race in Gulgong on Saturday afternoon last resulted:—N. Tickner (3mins. [?]secs.) 1; G. Beck (8mins.), 2; J…

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Bridge Bowls Sydney's Great Carnival

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 7

As the date for the Sydney Harbor Bridge Bowling Carnival draws nearer the ground for belief that at least two thousand bowlers will…

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Country Boys to See Harbor Bridge Pageant

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 16

Applications are being received from bays in all parts of the State to witness the historic opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The…

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Bridge Celebrations Medgee's Part Discussed District Exhibit Favored

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 10

A meeting of those ince[?] in the [?] celebrations so for as they [?] was held in the Town Hall on Monday…

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Road Transport a Little Taste of Tyranny

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 11

Flushed by their early legislative success, and probably a little frolicsome from the effects of newly-acquired power that is without…

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