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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1932

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Snake on Motor Car Occupants Leave Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 3

A brown snake 5ft. in length took possession of a motor car for halt an hour an a road near Goulburn to day. The Yeadon family, of Rhyanna, wero…

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Motor Car Speed Racing [?] Car Designer Declines to Make Statement Anekland(N.Z).January 9

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 7

Don [?] [?] the [?] of the ear in which [?] [?] Smith will attempt a world's [?] record,[?] to designs his [?] with Smith…

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Motor Car-speed Raging Smith's Car Designer, Declines to Make Statement Auckland (N.Z.), January 9

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 3

Don Harkness, the designer of the oar in Which "Wizard" Smith will attempt a world's speed record, declines to discuss his relations with Smith,…

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Officer From Melbourne Inspects Tue Aerodrome

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 2

Major Mnnn, supervisor for the Civil Aviation Department, arrived by car to-day from Adelaide und Melbourne, and ufter making un inspection of the…

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Australian Railways Increasing Deficits Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Commonwealth und Stoto Governmentg take a-most serious viow of the increasing railway deficits. Some of the Premiers have requested Mr. Lyons…

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Motor Lorry Capsizes Occupant Badly Injured Port Pirie

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Mr. Albert G. Knapp, of Port Pirie, was seriously injured as the result of a motor lorry capsizing about seven miles from Port Broughton yesterday…

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Railway Fatality Man's Mutilated Body Found on Line Junee

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 4

An unknown man met a shocking death when he fell from the Melbourne-Sydney expresa, apparently while "jumping the rattler." The…

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Fatalities and Accidents Motor Car Falls 26 Feet Two Occupants Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Two people hod narrow escapes from death late last night when a motor car in which they were riding crashed through the fence the show ground…

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Motor Cycles Collide Four Persons Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Four persons, including a seven— mouths-old baby, were injured when two motor cycles, ono with a sidecar, collided at Marrickville last night. All…

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Motor Car Overturns Four Men Injured Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Four well-known Cowra business men were injured last night when their car hit the fallen branch of a tree on the Woodstock-road and overturned. They…

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Motor Cyclist Injured in Collision with Car Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Alexander Donaldson Roborts (21).a navy employee, is in tho Lewisham Hospital in a critical condition as the result of a collision between his motor…

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Women's Motor Car Trip Around Australia on Way Back to Sydney Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 3

Two sydney women, Mesdames H.S. Holman and D. W. Cummins, arrived in Adelaide at 1 a.m. to-day on their way home after having circled…

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Stolen Gold Recovered Tramps Boiling Billy Over the Hiding Place Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 3

How two tramps bolled tneir billy over a small fortune of gold in the Queensland bush was related by Mr. J. Trollope, who returned to Sydney…

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Sydney Harbor Bridge Mr. Willis Favors King Speaking From London "An Historic Occasion" London, Januaru 8

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 6

Australia and Britain should hear the King's voice at the opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge in March, says Mr. A. C. Willis, Agent-General for…

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N.S.W. Transport Act Councillor's Complaint About "Spies" on the Road Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 1

At the meeting of the Drummoyno Council last night Alderman. Thompson strongly protested against '"spies" being stationed on the roads to detect…

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Far East Trouble Railways Destroyed by Chinese Bandits Japanese Losses (Special to "The Miner.") Tokio, January 12

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 1

Fierce fighting is going on in the west Liao River district of Manchuria. Several Japanese detachments have been wiped out having been surrounded…

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Notes and Comments Our Losing Railways.—

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 2

The Commonwealth and the State Governments are reported to be "taking a most serious view" of the increasing railway deficits. The various…

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The Sydney Railway Bookings Are Light for The-next Excursion

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 2

The express that left for Sydney last night caried a light load, there being only 43 passengers on board. These comprised 10 in the sleeping car and 8…

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Sydney Harbor Bridge Public Works Department to Make Final Tests Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1932 · page 2

The testing of the Sydney Harbor Bridge will be undertaken almost at once. As from midday to-day the bridge will be handed over by the…

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Police Hidden on Train Arrest Alleged Thieves Charged with Theft. Perth

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1932 · page 4

Hidden on a goods train bound for Bunbury late at night, three detectives saw two men jump on the train when it was pulling out of a station 30 miles…

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