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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

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Better Farming Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 2

Following the visit of the better-farming train to Yarrawonga, district representatives decided to inaugurate a better-farming league for…

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Rutherglen. Better Farming Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 41

The better farming train visited Rutherglen on Friday, and lectures and demonstrations were given by the officers in attendance…

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Better Farming Train at Wodonga Keen Interest Taken by Large Assemblage

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 32

As the Better Farming Train arrived at Wodonga on Monday morning punctually to time there was a fairly large number of interested visitors present…

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Sydney Road Smash Verdict of Manslaughter. Tribolet to Stand Trial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 22

The District Coroner (Mr. D. W. Reed) held an inquiry into circumstances surrounding the death of Edmund Keegan on August 17…

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Motor Mascots

The Independent · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 3

Women may not have had very much to do with the actual planning and designing of the modern motor-car, but there is certainly at least…

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Canberra Railway Albury Interested

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 28

At the meeting of the Albury Municipal Council the mayor (Ald. H. G. Davies) referred to the much discussed railway to Canberra. He…

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Motors Some Useful Information Regarding Them. Double Clutching. Its Intricacies Expanded

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 36

Not a few motor writers emphasise to the am[?]eur that the only really scientific way of attaining silent gear changing of all speeds, is the process…

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Albury Police Court Monday, August 24. (Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M.). Wodonga Motor Driver Fined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 4

Ernest Tozer was proceeded against by the Albury Municipal Council for playing a motor car ns a public vehicle without a license. Defendant said he…

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Motor Spirit From Potatoes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 10

The Under Secretary for Agriculture, in a letter to Mr. J. J. Fitzgerald, M.L.A., following on representations made by Dorrlgo Agricultural Society…

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Railway Extension to Broken Hill

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 10

The Sydney to Broken Hill railway has been extended another 41 miles to Ivanhoe, beyond Trida. This will bring the line within 110 miles of…

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Motor Bus Capsizes. Nine Passengers Thrown Out

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 2

A motor bus got out of controll at Blakehurst yesterday, and overturned. Nine passengers were, thrown in a heap, but nobody was seriously…

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Motor Car on Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 3

Mr. H. Ewart, of Rowan-street, Wangaratta, was returning from Rutherglen with three friends in a new Essex motor car on Saturday evening,…

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Gonn Crossing Bridge

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 3

Work on the Murray Bridge at Gonn Crossing is steadily, proceeding, but will not be finished for some months to come. The business of…

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Motor Notes Thorough Chassis Lubrication

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 4

No owners or any experience need to be taught the manner in which they should attend to the major matters of lubrication, such as those…

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Sydney-broken Hill Railway

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. HORSINGT0N: Seeing that the Sydney-Broken Hill railway is now within mensurable distance of completion it has been reported that only…

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Kerosene and Motor Spirit

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 3

No demand is too preposterous for presentation to the Tariff Board, a witness the application for a duty of 2d a gallon on kerosene in packages,…

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Queensland Railway Strike Brisbane

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 2

Railway traffic is completely suspended throughout the whole State. The strikers have posted pickets at many stations. The solidarity of…

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The Bridge Decking

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 2

Some time age the Corowa Municipal Council mode representations (through the members for the district) to the Minister for Public Works urging…

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The Culcairn-corowa Train

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 4

There is a general feeling that if the ordinary tra[?]ff, Culcairn to Corowa and return, were scheduled to run as a passenger train on Wednesdays, instead of…

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Two Railway Men Killed

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 2

While working in the Maryborough station yard, Victoria, on Friday two men, George Ruby and William Wit Oliver were crushed between an…

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