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Railways, roads & transport, 1929

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Cycle Road Race

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 2

The following entries have been received for the Hay Cycling Club's Five Mile Road Race, which will start and finish at the Post Office, at 4.30 p.m…

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Aeroplane Crash Woman Passenger Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 16

A woman was killed and a man injured when a Moth (aeroplane crashed, from a height of 400 feet and was wrecked near the canal bank at Mascot…

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Christmas Day Train

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 2

The Victorian Railways notify that on Christmas Day the ordinary train from Deniliquin will leave at 8.40 a.m. (instead of [?] p.m.), and connect with…

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Road and Rail Transport

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

A writer in last issue of "The Countryman," in dealing with the respective merits of road and rail transport, says: It is even more important to…

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Train Disaster in Belgium. Serious Casualties. NAMUR

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 1

The failure of the brakes while descending a steep bank, near the station, derailed a passenger train. Four carriages were telescoped. There…

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Culcairn Road Rate Minister Cannot Interfere Arrangements for £6000 Over. Draft

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the Culcairn Shire Council on Monday reference was again made to the imposition of an additional rate…

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[?] Mber for Murray Tries to Strangle Farmers' Bill [?] Railway [?]Ters to Confer [?]Nshaw's Statement

The Independent · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 1

[?] Thomson, President of Deniliquin Blighty. Railway [?] received a letter dated [?] 1929, from Mr. M…

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Motor Cars to Be Made Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 28

Reports that a very large company is being formed in New South Wales, to establish works for the construction of motor cars have reached Newcastle…

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Motors When Piston Slat Is Serious

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 28

Piston slap is a symptom of either normal clearance or undue wear which unlike some even more serious mechanical defects, proclaims its presence in…

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Blighty Railway Letter From Mr. Kilpatrick, M.l.a

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 2

Mr. H. R. Thompson, president of Deniliquin-Blighty Railway League, has received a letter from Mr. M. Kilpatrick M.L.A., in which he states : —…

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Wahgunyah-Springhurst the Train Service

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 3

At the Rutherglen Shire Council meeting the President stated that an officer of the Railway Department had Visited Rutherglen and had discussed…

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First Case Country Roads Board Acts

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 3

At the Rutherglen Police Court on Wednesday last, Mr. W. F. Blyght, inspector for Country Roads Board, proceeded against…

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Not Wanted Unemployed of Sydney for Road Work

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 1

Illabo Shiro Council and various bodies in Wagga want the main Junee to Wagga road, via Harefield, proclaimed a main road, so that the…

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Grazier Sued Motor Collision Sequel

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 2

A claim for £499 damages against James Powell Flight, grazier, of Rang[?]more, was heard before Judge Wolnarski in the Melbourne county court [?]…

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Albury Aerodrome Wanted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 6

Four 'planes which, will be used on the Melbourne and Brisbane run, have been landed in Australia and these are claimed to be the very latest passenger…

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Aeroplane Falls Into Sea Pilot and Passenger Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 27

A message from Auckland (N.Z.) states that Captain Donald E. Harkness was flying over the Rangitoto Channel in a Dornier Libelle…

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Lower Rates Better Roads Moama Wants Secession

The Independent · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 1

On Saturday night the Moama Merger Committee held its meeting in the School of Arts, Moama. the President Mr. J. McLaren, presided…

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Living Over a Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 10

Chiltern Court, the latest addition to London's blocks of luxury flats, now nearing completion in Baker street, W., is the first of its kind to…

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Girl Throw From Motor Cycle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 9

A motor cycle ridden by Richard Sorensen, aged 19 years, collided with a motor ear in Chapel-street Prahran (Vie.) Ada Sorenson, aged…

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Tallangatta—-wodonga Railway Hume Weir Deviation £150,000 Work Begins This Week

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 December 1929 · page 2

Twenty workmen will be employed this week on the railway deviation between Tallangatta and Wodonga. The deviation is necessary because of the…

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