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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1929

1,298 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 65

No Official Report On Wombat Road Deputation. "You Can Read It in the Papers," Says Ald. Rabbets

The Young Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

No report on the recent deputation to the Main Roads Board on the question, of the £18,000 subsidy and the Wombat Road…

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Oakland Cars the Cosmopolitan Six Creating an Entirely New Conception of the Modern Motor Car

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

Everyone guessing, speculating, wondering if anything new could be possibly offered in motor cars. And in the meantime an earnest group…

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Harden Railway Water Supply Fails

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 10

The prolonged drought in the southern districts is just beginning lo become serious. Already railway authorities have been carrying water…

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Petty Pilfering Five Railwaymen Dismissed

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 10

Petty thieving caused five Moss Vale railwaymen to be dismissed from the service last week. A few boxes of cherries and about two dozen bottles…

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Motor Lorry Accident Driver's Lucky Escape

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 8

On Saturday morning last, whilst Mr. Thomas Percival mail contractor between Borrowa and Eye Park, was driving…

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Four Million Bags of Wheat Handled by Railways in South and South-West

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 10

Returns compiled by the Railway Department place the season's wheat yield in the, south and south-western railway division extending to Lake…

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Car Stolen Recovered at Gundagai Tramping De Luxe

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 5

It seems that the old mode of tramping is changing. Cases often occur now where men travelling on the road help themselves to other…

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The Motor World. New and Notes From the N.r.m.a

The Young Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

The maximum fine (£20) under the present Act was inflicted by a Sydney magistrate upon a drunken driver recently, reports the N.R.M.A. In…

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Motor Notes Easily Made Socket Wrenches

The Young Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

Sections of seamless' steel tubing, cut from the frame of a discarded bicycle, can be made into strong, serviceable socket wrenches. which…

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The Aerodrome To the Editor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 1

Dear Sir—With reference to the club's recent application to the city council to assist in the provision of aerodrome facilities for this city,…

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At the Turn of the Road. an Australian Story Published by Special Arrangement CHAPTER XXII..(Continued)

The Yass Courier · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 3

'Don't let the milk boil over on the stove, mind; and wash up all, when you're finished,” said the maid. “You know, I've always…

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Motor Traffic Regulations

The Yass Courier · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 5

The police are tightening up in regard to breaches of the motor traffic regulations, and drivers of motor oats and motor cycles will…

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Alleged Thefts Watches and a Motor Lorry

The Yass Courier · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 5

On Friday morning before Mr Carr. Boyd, P.M , Robert Weir, aged 16, of Canberra, appeared on a charge of stealing on January 23, a metal…

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Bound Over Railway Employee's Lapse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 4

Reginald Sutton Keetley, who pleaded guilty at the Goulburn Police Court last Monday to embezzling £56/10/7, between December and January. while…

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Remarkable Accident Motoring Fatality SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 2

Mrs. Mary Fraser, an elderly widow, of Darling Point Rd., Darling Point, was killed in most extraordinary circumstances yesterday…

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Motor Cyclist Crashes. Nasty Spill on Grenfell Road

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

Mr. Keith McLennan had a nasty spill on the Grenfell Road, about 20 miles out on Saturday, when travelling on a motor bicycle at a fairly…

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Motorists Led Astray

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

Visiting motorists, approaching Sydney via Liverpool Road, are frequently confused, particularly, at night time, says the N.R.M.A., at the…

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Illegal Use of Motor Car

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 4

Hilton John Evans was charged at Young Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday with illegally using a motor car, tho property of Florence…

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Bourke St. Crash Motorists Sustain Concussion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

Found on the roadside near an over turned motor cycle and side car between 9 and 10 o'clock last night, leslie McCabe (31), of Merriulla, and…

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New Railway Service To Conserve Border Trade BRISBANE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

The Premier (Mr. McCormack), who will next Saturday turn the first sod of the railway to be rebuilt from Ingle wood to Texas and silverspur, a…

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