Fall From a Tram. £1250 Damages Awarded
At the Civil Court, Adelaide, a jury returned a verdict for the plain till in a case before Mr. Justice Buchanan and jurors, in which Alice May Edwards, wife of Augustus W. H…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
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South Maitland Railways
Commencing on Monday next, there will he a number of alterations in the running of passenger trains on the South Maitland railways, particulars of Which are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reinstatement of Railway Strikers ATTITUDE Of PROGRESSIVES
Speaking at the annual conference of the New South Wales Graziers Association, Mr Wearne, leader of the Progressive party, said that so long as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Man's Compensation Set Aside by Full Court. Act Not Retrospective
The-Full Court at Sydney on Wednesday delivered its reserved judgment in an appeal by the defendants, the Railway Commissioners, from a verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bolting Motor Lorry Crashes Into Stone Wall
A motor lorry, with a full load of bricks, got out of control at the top of Ocean-street, Sydney, on Wednesday, and set out on a joy ride on its own account…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Channel Tunnel. Railway Getting Ready for French Trains
Although sanction to construct the Channel Tunnel has not yet been given by Parliament, the task of moving buck the railway station platforms throughout the Great Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Double Pay. Rail and Tram Men's Claims. Cabinet and Commissioners
A request that members of the railway and tramway service should receive double pay for the two holidays during the visit of the Prince of Wales was made to the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Accident. London
The "Times" Paris correspondent wires King Alexander and Mademoiselle Manon narrowly escaped an accident at Fontainebleau while motoring. The King's con came into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Smash Passengers Escape Injury
An Avro aeroplane, containing Mr Stanley Harper, pilot, Mr P. Heyde (Nimitybelle), and Mr Gibson, a passenger, who intended flying to Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aeroplane at Dungog Pioneer Flight. Lieut. S. W. BIRD
The B.E. 2 E. aeroplane piloted by Lieut Stanley W. Bird, late R.A.F., Egypt, was expected to arrive in Dungog on Sunday. An alteration in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Strikers. Mr. Estell and Re-instatement
The Minister of Works and Railways, Mr. Estell, made reference on Monday to the deputation which waited on Mr. Dooley, Acting Premier. on Friday. with a request for the…
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The "Times" Paris correspondent reports that Count kergarin has died an a remit of the injuries received in the motor car accident at Fontaiblean…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mixed Australian Railway Gauges
One of the local hindrances to progress is the break of gauge on the Australian railways. Australia has 3ft Gin lines in Queensland, 4ft 8 1/2in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Ploughig Fatality
Mr. Leslie Loder Dowe, of "Nirvana", Manilla; son of ot the late Mr. George Dowe and Mrs. Dowe of Milliwindi Station, met with a fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Motion. Tram Men and the Prince
A mass meeting of Sydney tramway men was held at the Trades Hall on Tuesday afternoon, when the following motion was curried:—"That on the day of the landing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Duplication
The duplication work on the railway line between Branxton and Belford has once more been resumed, after having been suspended for something like four years. On Monday last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramcar Tragedy
Reuter's Berlin correspondent reports that a message from Beuthen, Upper Silesin, states that French soldiers stopped a tram and took out a passenger named Heide, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Puzzle
A good many people are wondering why the tram that formerly left here for Newcastle, fust at 11.25 a.m. and then at 11.55, has now been fixed to leave at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Tramway Men Desire to See the Prince
At a mass meeting of the Tramway Employees' Union, held at the Trades Hall, Sydney, on Tuesday, a motion was carried to the effect that on the day of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog to Gloucester Via Aeroplane
Lieut S. W. Bird departed from Dungog on Tuesday in his aeroplane and was accompanied by Mr H. J. Stevenson of the Royal Hotel…
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