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

Railways, roads & transport, 1932

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Sydney Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 2

In Sydney's leading paper the residents of the metropolis have been amusing themselves suggesting names for the big bridge to be opened in…

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Buy Empire Goods Wave in Britain a Record Train London, December 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 1

Empire buying is spreading like a a wave over Britain as result of the "Buy British" campaign launched last week…

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The Railways Mr. Cleary Carries on Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 3

Yesterday was the last day of the seven years' term as Assistant Railway Commissioners of Messrs. O. W. Brain and A.D.J. Forster. They…

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Road Accidents During The Holidays Man Asleep at the Wheel

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 2

Yass had its share of road accidents during the holidays. On Christmas morning Mr. McKillop, a baker from Greenthorpe, was driving…

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Motor Fatalities Wellington, N.Z.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 3

When a car crashed through bridge railings near Taupirl, N.Z., four occupants were pinned in the water. Three escaped, but Robert Eaves, the…

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Brilliant Bridge Opening

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 1

Costing, with its massive approaches, £10,000,000, over taking more than eight years to build, the Bridge over Sydney Harbour, now nearing completion, represents the largest and heaviest one-arch span in the world…

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MR. R. BOGG Railway Presentation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 3

The Railway Permanent Way workshops were the scene of a pleasing ceremony during the lunch hour on New Year's Eve,…

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Railway Hold-up Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 3

Twenty loaded coal-hoppers on the freight train from the west were derailed on the goods line at Chullora Fork at 5 o'clock this morning…

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

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

Figures on the probable cost of the northermost sections of the proposed international highway along the Pacific slope from South America to…

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No Strike on Bridge Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

A mass meeting of bridge workers yesterday, seeking to recover wage tax deducted form good conduct pay, got conflicting advice from union…

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Snake Takes Car Fight for Possession on Rhyanna Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

A five foot brown snake took possession of a car for three quarters of an hour on the Rhyanna Road this morning and…

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Railway Revenue

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

Mr. H. B. Tucker, stationmaster at Munumburrah, has kindly supplied us with the following particulars of business transacted at the…

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Paper Train Delayed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

The paper train was 34 minutes late on the reaching Goulburn this morning owing to the failure of a down goods train on a section between Penrose…

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Annual Meeting Railway Benefit Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

The annual general meeting of the Great Southern Railway Benefit Society was held in the Railway Institute rooms on…

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Bridge Lottery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 2

Attention is drawn to the advertisement appearing elsewhere in which the Harbour Bridge Lottery in which the first, prize will be…

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Auburn St. Main Road Repairs

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 3

Work, commenced in Auburn Street ,this morning of re-spraying with bitumen of a width of 20 feet along the centre of the…

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The Sydney Harbor Bridge— Brilliant Opening Celebrations Planned

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Costing, with its massive approaches, £10,000,000, and taking more than eight years to build, the bridge over Sydney Harbour now nearing…

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Railway Lines Test of Welding System

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 4

Railway engineers in Australia are testing the possibilities of a system of welding railway lines so that they may be laid in lengths of from one…

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Failed to Register Motor Cyclist Fined

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 4

That a defendant had had a motor cycle for nine months and that it had never been registered was alleged at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Petition to King Mr. Lang and Bridge Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 3

In a speech, which was broadcast, to the Lane Cove division of the New Guard last night, the commandant of the organisation…

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