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Railways, roads & transport, 1928

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Terrible Injuries. Woman Falls Between Train and Platform. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

Mrs. Ada Greentree (59), a resident of Willoughby, fell between the platform and a moving train at Central Station last night. She sustained…

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Railway Work. Day Labor Discontinued. SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 1

Day labor having been abolished on the Kyogle- Brisbane railway construction work, 240 men were not reengaged when the work was resumed…

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Railway Traffic. At Inverell Station

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

Following are traffic returns from Inverell station for the month of December, Kindly supplied to us by the…

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Safe Recovered. Stolen From Railway Station. BRISBANE

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

A message from Babinda (Q'land) states that the safe which was stolen from the railway station was found yesterday, a mile away. The…

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Railways. £1,000,000 DEFICIT. Minister's Forecast

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 7

The Minister for Railways said it was anticipated that, despite the increased fares, the railways, at the end of this financial year, would…

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Bitumen Roads

The Uralla Times · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 4

In the last five or six years there has been a decided improvement in the civic life of Inverell, and, after the prostrating effects of the last…

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ANKIETY For Missing Airmen Aeroplane Searching

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 5

The New Zealand Government have decided to [?] as [?] to March for the [?]…

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Passenger Leaves Train in Sleep

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 6

A man named [?] Branham walked in his sleep from the first division of the Queensland Western mail train on Tuesday night between…

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Killed by Train. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 1

[?] near [?] Hill [?] Robert McDonald, 64, [?] layer was knocked [?]…

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Controlling Main Roads What of Glen Innes Inverell ?

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 3

At Saturday's meeting of macintyre Shire Council a circular letter was received from Yauco Shire advocating that the Main Roads board…

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Petrol Tax For Road Maintenance South Australian Proposal Perth

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 1

The Premier, Mr. Collier, supports the suggestion of Mr. Jenkins, Minister for Lands in South Australia, that the Commonwealth should levy…

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Terrible Ride Boys on Train Roof One Killed Mate Nurses Lifeless Body

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 3

Nursing the lifeless body of his mate whose hand with crushed to [?], a youths of [?] agreed in a drams of unusual darling on the…

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Grant of £4000 Sought for Furracabad. Road Opening Walter St. for the Show

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 7

Furracabad Road-- described by one alderman as "the west road in the state"-- is receiving the consideration of the Council…

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Best Motor Spirit at 1/- a Gallon

The Uralla Times · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 4

Motor spirit extracted from shale, at 1/- a gallon in the Lithgow district, at 1[?] 2 in Sydney, and equal to the best imported…

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Snowdrifts and Railway Cuttings

Guyra Argus · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 4

In England, where snowstorms are of comparatively little danger, no steps are taken to prevent railway cuttings from being blocked up by the drifts. But in the…

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Closing Railway Workshops To Meet Pay Increases ADELAIDE

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 1

The Railway Commissioner propose to close the Islington railway workshops for a sufficient length of time in April and June to enable the…

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Both Legs Servered Youth Under Tram Car Collision on Way to Hospital Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 1

A youth, named Joseph Beveridge, 16 had both his legs practically severed when he fell under a train in Military Road, Mossian last night…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A.

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 10

In Constantinople dumb persons have been ordered to wear red ribbons around their hats. The blind are distinguished by white ribbons, while…

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Racehorse Injured Mishap at Railway Station

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 11

The well-known racehorse, Go You, owned by Mr. O. E. Couch, had one of his hind legs badly injured on Saturday last…

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Motor Train Proposed

The Inverell Times · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 4

Molar trains have done good service on branch lines where there is not enough, little traffic, to warrant the expensive paraphernalia, of the…

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