Paddy's Plain Road
The Secretary of the local branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association (Mr. Gordon Macrae) is in receipt of a letter from Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
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Main Roads Grant. a Tryingham Complaint
At the Nymboida Shire Council meeting on Thursday, the Department of Local Government forwarded a copy of the following letter received from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Railways Chief Commissionership Melbourne
The Victorian Government has rejected the whole of the twelve applications sent in for the position of Chief Railway Commissioner. Enquiries will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Train Service. Inquiries for Information. the Grafton-lismore Experiment. Sydney
The general secretary of the P.P.U, in response to numerous inquiries from members of various branches for information in connection with the new motor train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Railways. Ministerial Statement. London
Sir Eric Geddes (Minister for Transport). referring to the railways settlement, said that wholesale competition for the same traffic was wrong and wasteful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Railways. Search for a Chief Commissioner. Melbourne
A dozen applicants for the position of Chief Railway Commissioner for Victoria have been turned down, and a search will be made in England, and possibly Amrica,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Motor Service
A press news item says that a demand is setting in from the country for rail motor services on the branch railway lines. A motor, petrol-driven, is fitted…
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The Bellingen "Courier" informs us that after all the special grant is spent on the Dorrigo Cutting, another £4000 will be required to put the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bomb Thrown at Train. London
Reuter's Delhi correspondent states that a bomb was thrown at a passenger train between Tarn and Pabbi. Apparently it was aimed at the engine, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Problem. a Suggested Alternative
We can plainly see—and, one does not need to be at all prepbetic to see it—that the time is not far distant, that the roads in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exciting Experience on Train. Bullets Through Carriage Windows. Sydney
As a train was passing through Erskineville on the way to Sydney early this morning two bullets crashed through the windows, one bullet narrowly missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Strike in Italy Traffic Paralysed. Cities in a State of Siege. Orders to Troops. London
Reuter's Rome correspondent reported on January 21: A railway strike has begun, and the services are more or less affected in various districts owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial Traveller's Death. Injured by a Motor-car. Sydney
A commercial traveller, Mr. James Marsh, died in the Parkes Hospital this morning. Deceased had complained of the effects of an injury be received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall From a Tram. Subsequent Death in Hospital. Sydney
Frederick Barton fell from a train in North street, Leichhardt. He got up and went on with his work, apparently uninjured, but later became ill and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More About Roads
The following communication has been received from the Department of Lands through Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A.:—"Dear Sir,—In reply to your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Living Wage. Anomalies in Railway Service
A meeting of the New South Wales Parliamentary Labor party decided to appoint a deputation to wait on the Chief Railway Commissioner, "to ascertain the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Spirits. Australian and New York Prices Compared
Recent cabled advices concerning the price of motor spirit in New York make an interesting comparison with the prices at present obtaining in Australia. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eight-wheeled Motor Car
That the motor of the future will roll on more wheels than those of the present is a possibility, in view of the fact that at least one eight-wheeled car has lately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dilatory Railway Classification. Melbourne
When the Victorian Railway Classification Board met to-day, Mr. Smith, representing the union said that at the present rate of progress it would take 220 days to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S. Railways. Last Year's Figures. New York
A message from Washington says: The Inter-State Commerce Commissioner has reported that the Government's definite operation of the…
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