Train Service Stopped. Cockle Creek to Wallsend
Miners have succeeded in bringing about the cessation of the passenger train services on the Cockle Cree-Wallsend private railway line…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
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Taken by Sharks. Motor Tug Crew. Capetown, Jan. 13
Five lives were lost in a motor tug disaster at Tamarind on the west coast of Mauritius. The boat, which is used for shark fishing was being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Fatalities. Boy Killed at Burwood
Alan Foulstone, aged 9 years of Franklyn-street, Concord, was fatally injured on Monday afternoon when a motor lorry came into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australia's Haunted Area No Serious Obstacles for Motorists
The Shell Company has received the, following letter from Dr. G. Manning, who recently established the new Perth-Sydney car record:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Contracts Over a Million for Motor Bodies
Mr. B. H. Phipps, vice-President [?] Chrysler Export Corporation, stated in Adelaide on Friday that contracts for the manufacture of 11,600 motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Utilising By-Product of the Sugar Industry Will Reduce Motor Spirit Importations
If the claims put forward by the Minister for Mines in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland can be sub stantiated, the time is at hand when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Summer Hill Bridge
A deputation from Bolwarra Shire Council, consisting of the president (Councillor B, Bowden), Councillors E. Kenley and G. Priestley and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Cable. Sydney
Considerable excitement prevalled on the vehionlar ferry Killara this morning, when one of the heavy cables on which a warning notice to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tariff. High Duty on Bridge Girders
An instance of the way in which the high tariff affects Tasmania was presented to the Cabinet when consideration was being given to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drunken Motorist Deputy Mayor Fined
John lang Bruce, 51, a builder, Deputy-Mayor of the Canterbury Municipal Council, was fined £20, and was disqualified from holding a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Riverina Wheat Railway Estimates Exceeded
The tone of the wheat-farming, circles in the Riverina is optimistic, and it is understood that, there will be an extension of Share-farming for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eaten by Sharks When Motor Boat Overturns
Capetown; Monday.—Five lives were lost when a motor boat overturned in the shark-infostod waters off the west coast of Mauritius to-day:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Uniform Railways Gauge Federal Cabinet Recommendations To be Placed before Conference of Premiers
Yesterday Mr Parker Moloney, Minister for Markets and Transport, presented to the Federal Cabinet recommendations regarding the uniform railways gauge. Cabinet approved the , recommendations, which will he placed before a conference of Premiers at Canberra in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Gauges. Opposition to Unification
The West Australian Premier (Mr. P. Collier) expressed emphatic views doneering the inopportuneness of the present time to rais the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Merriwa Motor Train
An additional rail motor has been tabled by the Railway Deprtment to run on Tuesday, January 28, only. It will leave Muswellbrook for…
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Cr. Bowden, President, Crs. Priestley and Kealy ana Mr. A. L. Skelton, Clerk, of the Bolwarra Shire Interviewed Council regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Abbotts Ford Road
No little excitement has been caused over the Abbott's Ford road wh[?] Council was in the act of repairing in order to give sale access to that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lake Road
In reply to a letter from Mr. G Booth, M.L.A., addressed to the Minister for Local Government, he has been informed by the Main Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision on Newcastle Road
When a car driven in the direction of Newcastle by Mr. McBeath, of Lawes-street, East Maitland, came into collision with a car driven in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Auction Bridge. Easy Lessons for Beginners
Below we publish Lesson I on Auction Bridge. The Lessons will extend over 26 parts, to appear in each Friday's issue of "The Chronicle." The lessons are from the pen of Mr. Stanley N. Guthego, a teacher of Bridge, who has been giving talks on Bridge from 3UZ, the Melbourne…
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