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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1932

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Motor Notes Rust

The Bombala Times · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 2

Rust is the greatest single obst[?] in the way of satisfactory and trouble free functioning of the power system. Clogging of a radiator and hoses…

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A "Fifth Party" Risk Now Faces Giddy Motorists Paris

The Bombala Times · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

A third party risk has hitherto proved sufficient, safeguard for the crashing motorists and their victims, but Corveille Civil Court has added…

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Fall from Bridge to Rocks Spine Injured Crawls for Help

Delegate Argus · Thursday 14 January 1932 · page 2

What may be classed as a tragedy occurred at Nowa Nowa at 10.30 o'clock last Friday night, when Mrs. Flukes, wife of…

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Pot Luck. Tramps Boiled Billy Over Gold Hoard

The Bombala Times · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 4

To discover—too late.—that they had boiled their billy over a small fortune of gold, was the heartbreaking experience of two sundowners in the…

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Mid-summer Railway Excursions

Delegate Argus · Thursday 21 January 1932 · page 2

Residents of country districts are being splendidly catered for by the Railway Department in the provision of frequent Excursion…

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Mid-Summer Railway Excursions

The Bombala Times · Friday 22 January 1932 · page 4

Residents of country districts are being splendidly catered for by the Railway Department in the provision of frequent excursion trains at low…

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Gas Attack on Hens Thieves in Motor Cars

Delegate Argus · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 2

Large numbers of farmers in the poultry farming districts of Nevendon and Basildon near South-end, England; have suffered…

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Money Left in Train

The Bombala Times · Friday 19 February 1932 · page 4

The periodical sales of property lost on the railways show that people are apt to forget many things, but few and far between are such cases as one…

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The Great Harbour Bridge Celebrations Special Hallway Arrangements

Delegate Argus · Thursday 25 February 1932 · page 3

By means of an attractive silhouette of the great Sydney Harbour Bridge, in association with a sketch of one of their modern…

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Motor Fatality

Delegate Argus · Thursday 25 February 1932 · page 2

A terrible motor fatality occurred on the Bega-Tathra road on Saturday night last. A party of seven Bega young men had gone…

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Terrible Motor Fatality. Two Dead and Five Injured at Bega

The Bombala Times · Friday 26 February 1932 · page 4

A terrible motor fatality occurred on the Bega-Tathra road on Saturday night. A party of seven local young men had gone to the seaside in the…

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Harbour Bridge Condemned

The Bombala Times · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 1

Preaching at the dedication festival of St Matthias' Church, Bombala, on Sunday night, Archdeacon Hirst said—"For the North Shore Bridge as an…

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The Great Harbour Bridge Celebrations. Special Railway Arrangements

The Bombala Times · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 4

By means of an attractive silhouette of the great Sydney. Harbour Bridge, in association with a sketch of one of their iaodern long-diatance…

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To Look for Missing Aeroplane. Lone Search for the Southern Cloud

The Bombala Times · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 2

That great three-engined passenger and mail-carrying airplane, "The Southern Cloud," is now just a memory—to some a dreadfully, sad memory…

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A Bridge Incident. Helped by the Law

The Bombala Times · Friday 25 March 1932 · page 4

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

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Motor Notes Futile Petrol Savers

The Bombala Times · Friday 1 April 1932 · page 2

While we do not wish in these comments to make a general condemnation, against all sorts of patent petrol savers it is necessary to warn the…

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Motor Notes How to Get Long Life From Your Car. Care of Springs

The Bombala Times · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 2

The springs will repay the little attention they require. They provide a means of cushioning the car from the shocks of the road and so not only…

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Motor Notes More Miles Per Gallon. How to Obtain Better Petrol Consumption

The Bombala Times · Friday 24 June 1932 · page 2

With petrols at their present prices, motorists are keenly interested in effecting economy in petrol consumption. It is interesting to note that such…

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West Monaro-Gippsland Road

The Bombala Times · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 3

Considerable correspondence has been published in the Cooma Express on the subject of opening a road for traffic between West Monaro and…

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A New Experience for Monaro. Train Blocked by Snow

The Bombala Times · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 1

Last Saturday morning the postal officials at the Bombala Post Office were advised from Nimmitabel that the train would not be able to proceed…

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