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

Railways, roads & transport, 1932

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The Bridge Incident Helped by the Law

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 3

An officer of the New Guard Captain de Groot, caused a sensation at the official opening ceremony of the bridge on Saturday morning when he…

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The Bridge Official Opening Making of History

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 2

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened by the Premier. (Mr. Lang) on Saturday in the presence of a vast concourse…

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Sydney Harbour Bridge Opened Wonderful Pageant In Glorious Weather

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 3

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened on Saturday in glorious weather, and with pageantry that has never been surpassed in Australia…

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Bridge Blown Up In Queensland BRISBANE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1932 · page 3

Late on Sunday night a truck loaded with ore at Dobbyn, near Cloncurry, a railway bridge near Dobbyn; and the railway points,…

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Those Flags From Harbour Bridge Boys to Rescue Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 3

Two schoolboys, A. James and Harry English, claim to have rescued the two flags from the top of the Harbour Bridge arch…

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Girl's Death at Summer Hill Leapt Under Train Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 3

It was learned to-day that the girl who met with a shocking death under a train at Summer Hill last night, was Clarice…

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Things Generally The Harbour Bridge

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 1

With we country people the Harbour Bridge is a very sore point. As rural folk we have claimed and we still claim that there is far too much…

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Local and General “Reso” Train

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 2

The “Reso” train, which was to have visited Yass next week, has been cancelled by the Railway Department, owing to lack of sufficient…

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Chief Railway Commissioner

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 4

We understand that the new Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Goode) will make a tour of the main southern railway line (including Murrumburrah) early in…

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Car Smashed Up Motor Traffic Case

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 3

Before Mr. M. E. Soane, P.M., yesterday morning, the police proceeded against Henry De La T. Saunders, of Cookbundon, Wee Jasper, on two…

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Sworn in New Commission Railway Retirements Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 3

It was learnt in official circles that the Government proposes to instruct the new Transport Commission, which took command of…

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Trams Held Up Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 3

Practically all trams in the suburban area were held up to-day for a considerable time owning to the power failing at the peak period due to the…

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A Challenge For Motor Speed French Monster London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 March 1932 · page 3

The Daily Express's Paris representative states that an unassuming Frenchman named Stapp, after two years' secret working in…

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Blazing Car Leap for Life Motor Over Cliff Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1932 · page 3

Lionel Melrose and Arthur Melrose had a narrow escape from death last night near Brooklands, when they were compelled to leap…

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Roads and Railways

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 7

It is palpably evident from the text of the Ministry of Transport Bill now through the State Parliament that the Government desires to give…

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Concrete Road Inspection Made

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 3

Following the expiry of the maintenance period allowed on concrete road at Marulan an inspection was carried out…

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No Shocks on Harbour Bridge Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 6

Toll collector will in future stand all rubber mats to prevent vagrant electric currents on the Harbour Bridge approach giving them shocks…

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Motors and Motoring Helps for the Owner-Driver The Gentle Art of Towing

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 March 1932 · page 2

A few nights ago we met two brothers each the owner of a car; one of whom with due sense of fraternal duty was trying to Low the other…

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Fall From a Train

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 1

It is risky to lean against the door of a train carriage. A man named Norman Farry was leaning from a railway carriage window as…

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RATIONING Railway Protest SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1932 · page 3

There is unrest among railway-men because of the failure of the Railway Department to modify the rationing scheme at present…

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