Motor Cyclist Fined By Magistrate
Lloyd Schreiver was charged before Mr. H. Isles. S.M., in the Police Court yesterday morning with having failed to drive his motor cycle as close to the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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British Motor Exhibition To Be Held This Year
So keen is the British motor industry to maintain and steadily increase its production of new automobiles for its home market and its export trade…
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London, January 17.—It is understood that an eight-hour day. 44-hour week, and overtime pay in excees of eight hours were agreed to by road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nine Months With Road Gang Bill Tilden Sentenced
Los Angeles, January 17.—Found guilty of contributing to the delin quency of a 14-yr.-old boy. former world tennis champion, William Tilden was…
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Sydney, January 17.—Tram and bus union officials will ask slopwork meetings of their members in Sydney and Newcastle on Monday to postpone for…
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ADELAIDE-Mr. R. H. Chapman was appointed S.A. Kailways Commissioner by Executive Council. His salary will be £2,600 a year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Trams Cease For 24 Hours May Lead To General Tie-Up
Sydney, January 19.—Promptly at midnight tonight all Government owned trams and buses went off the road in conformity with the decision of the men to hold a 24-hour strike. There was a last minute exodus of people from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bogs on Mildura Road (To the Editor)
Sir,—Recent reports re the condition of the Mildura road in the vicinity of Pine and Fox's Creek have certainly not been exaggerated. I happened to be one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Strike on Buses and Trams Decisions By Mass Meetings
Sydney, January 20.—Sydney tram and bus men voted in favor of returning to work at midnight tonight at a stop-work meeting at Leichhardt Stadium this morning. Before the vote was taken speakers warned the men that they world not have the support of other transport workers should…
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SYDNEY— When an electric train overran Herne Bay Railway Station about 10.50 o'clock last night two carriages were derailed…
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Mr. M. A. Davidson, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following from the Minister for Transport: "I am writing with further reference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cyclist And Cyclist Collide
In a collision between a motor cycle and push bicycle at the corner of Oxide Street and Lane Lane about 12.10 o'clock this…
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Both riders were injured and admitted to Hospital for observation when a motor cycle crashed into the rear of a push bicycle in Oxide Street shortly…
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Sydney, January 22.—A deer which wandered on to the road near National Park today caused a motor cycle to crash. The rider, Bert Merton of Ryde…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road to Pieces (To the Editor)
Sir.—The road to hell is paved with Rood Intentions. The road to pieces, via Atomic Fission and sundry other developments, is paved with pious…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Battle To Save Wanganella Hole Almost From Bow To Bridge
Auckland (NZ), January 23—Chances of saving the liner Wanganella, aground on a reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbor mere considered, brighter this…
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Mr. M. A. Davidson M.L.A., is in receipt of the following from the Minister for Transport: "I am writing with further reference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lad Killed And Another Injured Boarding Tram On Wrong Side
Sydney, January 23—A youth was killed and another injured when they were struck by a tram while boarding the wrong side of another tram at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foreman's Report on the Silverton Road
WORK on the surfacing of the Silverton Road with bitumen should be finished early next month. This was stated in the monthly report from the engineer's department submitted to the monthly meeting of the City Council by Mr. F. J. Chigwidden, roads foreman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorist Suffers Serious Injury; Struck By Car
SYDNEY.— While assisting a fellow motorist with a blowout early today, Donald Keith Mackenzie (21), of Lewisham, was…
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