Export of Railway Sleepers
The Minister for Commerce (Mr. F. H. Stewart) states that the number of railway sleepers shipped from Australia from January 1 to November 30, 1933, amounted…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1934
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Motor-cyclist Injured Sydney
William O'Loughlan, 27, of Church-street Newtown, received a compound fracture of the right arm, and severe contusions to the body as well as shock…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Depr. Launches Claim For Longer Working Week. New Log for Railway Workers. Personal Service Longer Working Week Resented by Men Railway Award Sydney
Along the tracks, in the workshops and on the trains, railwaymen are being personally served with copies of…
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Some concern is being felt by the Kearsley Shire Council at the delay of the Unemployment Relief Council in dealing with the Council's application for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Spanish Train Wrecked LISBON
Rioters derailed and wrecked a goods train at Santa Iria. The drives and fireman were seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Special Article Glass Roads Far-reaching Experiments Remarkable Discovery
Once again truth is on the verge of proving, stranger than fiction. Nowhere in the works-of Jules Verne or H. G. Well, supreme masters of literary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boat Harbour Expenditure on Bridge Repairs Council Vote Legal
It was stated yesterday that the Local Government Department had informed the Newcastle City Council that an expenditure of £200 on the reconstruction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Death After Road Accident Buchanan Man's Fight for Life
A brave fight for life ended at Maitland Hospital last night, when William McInearay, senr., of Bloomfield, Buchanan, victim of a sulky…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →French Railways Big Loan for Improvements PARIS, January 19
The Ministry of Public Works, in view of the Lagny disaster, has devised a scheme for borrowing £35,000,000, to finance an night-year plan for modernising…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tests for Motor Drivers
Tests for motor drivers, especially in London, have often been suggested, but those who have proposed them have not alwayas been certin what tests to apply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A London Letter The School and the Child—Testing Motorists—Municipal Hospitals—Lost Fisher Decorations LONDON, December 7
More nursery schools, for children under five, are recommended by the Cocultative Committee of the Board of Education under the chairmanship of Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Safe Blown Fire Follows Burglary Railway Station Gutted Inverell
The Mount Russell railway station, 16 miles from Inverell, comprising a station-master's office goods room, and men's and ladies' waiting rooms, was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Friday, January 19 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Trespassed on Railway
When a railway officer went to Woodville Junction about 9.30 p.m. on Thursday, he saw four men with their swags rolled up waiting near a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Picnic
The annual picnic of the Railway traffic and per-way branches will be held at Blackalls on Monday. A special train will leave…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Safety for Railways France to Spend £35,000,000 Eight Years Plan Paris
An eight-year plan for re organising and moderning the French railway system, and to cost £35,000,000, has been decided upon, following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle and Car Collide One Dead, Another Man Critical Melbourne
One man has died from shocking head injuries and another is in a critical condition following a head-on collision between a motor car and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Holiday Railway Excursions
Tho Department of Railways announces that additional excursion facilities will be available in connection with Australia Day holiday on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Byrd Expedition Two Remarkable Escapes Barrier Collapses Aeroplane Lands with Loose Skis (Exclusive to the Australian Press Association from Rear-admiral Byrd.) New York, January 19
Members of Rear-admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition had two remarkable escapes during landing operations at the Bay of whales…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Obstruction West End Traffic Hold-up Tram Line Removals
Many times mention has been made regarding the need for a local board to control tramway and traffic matters in this district. Every day one notices…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →45Th Harbour Bridge Victim Sydney
Police to-day recovered the body of the young woman who jumped from the Harbour Bridge last night. It was identified as that of Ethel Francis, 25, single,…
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