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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

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Theft of £1000. Bank Notes Taken from Mail Train

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 November 1925 · page 2

Sydney detectives made known this afternoon that a mail bag containing £1000 in £5 notes, which had been registered, disappeared between…

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Great White Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 5

The amended schedule of the tour of the Great White Train under the auspices of the Australian made Preference League is now to hand. Owing to the…

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Exhibition Touring Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 32

On account of tho very great amount of work involved in the alterations to the vans, the Railway Department will not have the full complement ready as…

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Motors Some Useful Information Regarding Them. Has Glare Problem Been Solved? Tests With Remarkable Invention of Brisbane Scientist

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 36

Many and different are the patents and devices which have been produced for overcoming those headlight troubles which are the bane of every…

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Three Motor Bikes. Sunnyside, Mt. Alfred

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—I was very glad to see my last letter in print, so I thought I would write again. My word, uncle, it will soon be Christmas…

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The Seamen's Strike. Recalcitrant Railway Men. Trades and Labor Council Repudiates the Premier. The Position at the Ports. BRISBANE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 2

Matters are fast coming to a climax. The chief development to-day was the Trades and Labor Council's repudiation of Mr. McCormack, the…

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Radio in Motor Car. Sol Green's Set

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 3

Mr. Sol. Green, the well known book maker, has bought a luxurious new model Seven water Phantom Cabriolet Rolls Royee for £1000. Built into the…

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Oaklands Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 5

The estimated cost of the construction of the Yarrnwenga-Oaklands railway is £245,000…

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Railways Part in Football

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 2

During the last football season. which extended a little over five months the, Victorian Railway Department ran 980 special trains: that…

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Bad Roads

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 November 1925 · page 2

The very bad condition of the principal streets of Deniliquin ought to stir the Municipal Council to do something to improve them. Drivers…

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Motor Notes Preserving the Main Roads Board

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 7 November 1925 · page 4

Rightly or wrongly an idea became generally current a few days ago that the State Government was intending to abolish the newly formed Main…

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Border Railways. Wages Rates and Conditions Questioned

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 7 November 1925 · page 4

Several conferences were recently held between the Australian Workers Union and the Victorian Ministry with the object of getting the New South…

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For Good Roads. £413,800 Allocated What Shires Will Do

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 November 1925 · page 4

Details of the allocation of the £275860 Commonwealth-State development roads vote for the current year were announced last week by the…

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What about a Tramline?

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 November 1925 · page 2

With on unlimited supply of electric energy near at hand many uses might be made of it providing, of course, the price permitted. We are told that…

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Great White Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 3

The Great While Train, which will travel through the country districts advertising Australian manufactures, left Sydney on Wednesday. The…

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Seen From the Train. Dramas Through Railway Carriage Windows

The Independent · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 4

Railway passengers sometimes get passing glimpses of extraordinary little dramas. Two men travelling in a train that was passing by a North…

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The Right and the Wrong Roads

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 31

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Good Roads. Amounts Allocated to Shires in Riverina

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 13

The list of allocations of Commonwealth-Cum-State Development Roads Vote was tabled in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly last week by the…

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Train Collision in U.S.A. Ten Reported Killed. VANCOUVER

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 2

A New York message reports that ten were killed and several injured when the St. Louis passenger train crashed into the rear of the…

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Breaches of Motor traffic Act

The Independent · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 2

At the court of petty sessions on Wednesday Mr C. A. Arnold. P.M. dealt with a Dumber of suremoos cases for alleged breaches of the Motor Traffic Act…

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