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

Railways, roads & transport, 1934

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Another Cheap Train At Single Fare For Double Journey

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 3

Anxious to make cheap excursion travel facilities available to far distant country residents who may have found themselves unable to travel…

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Spectacular Diving Hume Bridge Into Yass River Yesterday Afternoon’s Diversion

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 2

Contrary to most wet Sundays, which are usually dull enough, an interesting diversion was provided for townspeople yesterday…

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Motor Tours Round Trips From Crookwell

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 3

There are many delightful round trips by car that are possible in one day from Crookwell. The report published below of a trip taken by…

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Main Roads 1934 Expenditure

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

At yesterday's meeting of the Mulwaree Shire Council, the Shire Engineer, Mr. J. Harrison, submitted a schedule of works covering…

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Risked Life Prisoner's Escape Jump From Fast Train Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 1

Thirty police, drawn in a circle around a patch of forest, kept vigil all last night in the hope of inter[?]cep[?]ing William Edward Murray…

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Another Cheap Train. at Single Fare for the Double Journey

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 1

Anxious to make cheap, excursion travel facilities available to far distant country residents who may have, found themselves…

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Protest To-govt. Fear That Expenditure On Main Roads Will-Be Curtailed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

In a circular letter from the Granville Council to the Yass Council, read Monday night, it was stated:— A matter which vitally affects the…

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Stonemasons Wanted For Skilled Labour On Lead Street Bridge £30 Allocated by Council

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Owing to the fact that only one or two stonemasons are engaged on relief work, the Municipal Council decided on Monday…

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Speed Record Motor Cycle Figures Why Britain Failed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

The failure in recent attempts by English motor cyclists to regain for Great Britain the world's motor cycle speed record, is…

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Motoring Car Design New Feature Cruciform Bracing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

One of the most curious aspects in respect to motor ca design is the manner in which a development will be introduced by one…

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3 KILLED Tragedy at Gundagai Motor Coach Crashes Seven Injured Gundagai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

One of the worst accidents of its kind in N. S. W. occurred near here to-day, when a big tourist coach capsized after the…

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Shabby And Dreary Yass Railway Station Renovating And Painting Or New Building Wanted

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

It is certainly time the railway authorities had the Yass railway station thoroughly renovated and done up or better still, a new station built…

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Jeir Creek Dislocation Of Motor Traffic

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 1

Serious inconvenience to tourfete was occasioned when the Jeir Creek flooded over the Yass-Canberra road and held up a large number of cars…

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Chapter of Mishaps Car And Motor Lorry Stops Inside Surgery

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

An amazing series of accidents involving a motor lorry and a motor car occurred at Ryde. A lorry driven by Francis James…

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Tragic Note Bridge Suicide "Death Before Poverty" Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 3

The body of the man who jumped from the Sydney Harbour Bridge last night was definitely identified to-day as that of…

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RECAPTURED Escaped Prisoner Disguised As Tramp Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 6

Injured and almost exhausted, William Edward Murray, 42, alias William Young, was recaptured by police near Casino…

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Three Killed Tragedy at Gundagai. Motor Coach Crashes. Gundagai

The Young Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

One of the worst accidents of its kind in N.S.W. occurred near here to-day, when a big tourist coach capsized after the axle had…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Headlights at Crossings

The Young Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. draws attention to an unusual form of danger which occasionally occurs at railway level crossings at night. A member wrote…

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Briars on Roads

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 2

The president of Goodradigbee Shire, Cr. S. H. Walker, said on Friday that there appeared to be a few briars along the roads. Where there…

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Inspection Of Road Plant

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 1

Gunning Shire wrote to Goodradigbee Shire on Friday inquiring about the running costs of the power grader and expressing its desire to inspect…

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