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

Railways, roads & transport, 1937

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Longest Bridge in Europe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 7

COPENHAGEN: The last rivet in 40,000 tons of British steel was hammered home when the fifty span Storstrom Bridge,…

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Hundred Die As Blazing Train Raced On

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

CANTON, Sunday: More than 100 people are believed to have been burned to death to-day when a fire broke out on the Kowloon-Canton Canton express. The fire is believed to have been…

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The Orchard Deciduous Fruit Trees How to Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 7

Many of our deciduous trees make a lot of growth early in the new year, and, although young trees may have had attention…

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Fences to Go Encroachments on Yass Road Council Acts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 4

The most important feature of a discussion at Thursday night's meeting of the Goulburn City Council of a motion moved by…

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COLLISION Motor Cycle And Taxi YOUTHHURT

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

After having been in two minor accidents while riding his motor cycle on Saturday, Kevin Brogan, 22, son of Mrs V. Brogan, of…

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Motoring Guide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

A comprehensive and useful touring guide to the roads of New South Wales and the main interstate routes has been produced by the Shell Oil…

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Motorist Fined on Speeding Charge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1

An admission that he did not know at what speed he was driving a car in Auburn Street at 12.20 a.m. on January 1 was…

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Forty-hour Week for French Railways

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 5

PARIS, Monday: President Lo Brun to-day signed a decree enforcing a 40-hour working week on the railways as from January 25…

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Bridge Needed As Link to South Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 1

The Goulburn Chamber of Commerce decided to give its co-operation to a move being made to have a bridge erected across…

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Youths Under Seat-Shock For Train Traveller

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 5

Unable to place his suit case under the seat of the compartment of a carriage on the Temora mail last night, an Italian passenger investigated and fou d a youth hiding there. His startled cry brought a…

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New Road Surfaces Talk with the Engineer

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 4

The Council, in its endeavour to give us better road surfaces, is experiencing a number of difficulties, most of them due to the…

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Close Call Worker Flung Into Air Tramway Crash

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A man, whose name is believed to be Walter Armitstead, 50, and his mate, Fred Chapman, had narrow…

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Father Charged After Motor Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 4

HARDEN, Wednesday: A motor, driven by Terence Thomas Dear., an employee of the Burrowa Municipal Council, struck the…

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World's Longest Motor Road

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

Slowly, what is stated to be the longest motor road in the world is nearing completion. It was the Automobile Club of Southern…

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Encroachments on Yass Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 7

The most important feature of a discussion at the last meeting of the Goulburn City Council of a motion moved by Ald. Goodhew, “that the…

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Salvation Army Farewell to Captain Train Off to Bathurst

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 2

After two years' service in Goulburn as helper to the Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army (Major Spencer…

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Road Junction Is Worse Than Ever Possibility of Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

Aldermen of the Municipal Council who have had many years of motoring experience declared on Monday night that the work…

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Ex-king in Motor Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 5

VIENNA, Wednesday: The Duke of Windsor's ear collided with another on the icy road between Enzesefeld Castle and Vienna to-day. Although…

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Motor Notes. America's Tourist Camps

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

America's investment in tourist camps, courts and lodges of various kinds, to deal with the accommodation of the thousands who are…

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New Hours at Railway

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

The Stationmaster's Office at Murrumburrah Railway Station is open daily (Sundays excepted) from 5 a.m. to 8.30.; 9.40 a.m. to 12.30…

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