Motor Fatality. Farmer Killed and Three Others Injured Near Rylestone
SYDNEY, Saturday.---In a motoring accident on the Glen Alice road, near Rylestone, yesterday Mr: Frederick Willis, a farmer at Mount Mirden, was…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1925
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Motor Paced Cycling
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—At the cycling carnival Corry (Australia) defeated Opperman (America) in a motor paced match by 40 yards. The winner led throughout…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A wet towel thrown by a boy from a bridge at Ascotvale on to the overhead wires of the electric railway had serious consequences. The…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The four area commissioners as provided by the Railway Act passed last session will be selected by the chief commissioner…
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The highest station on any standard-gauge railway in the world is Ticlio, west of the boundary line between Brazil and Peru. Its elevation is 15,665ft…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—A party was motoring to the Glen Alice races from Kandos on Thursday when the car collided with a tree. F. Willis was killed and three other…
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The members for Byron have been advised by the Public Works Department, in regard to the proposed bridge at Byangum, that the plans…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A deputation interviewed the Minister for Local Government (Mr. J. C. L..Fitzpatrick) to-day and urged, that the chairman of the Main Roads…
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The railway service for the holidays was handled fairly well, considering the heavy traffic; but a humorous incident occurred at Strathfield, when a…
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Parts of the road by which the Devonshire village Widecombe is approached are metalled with a peculiar type of granite, in which a geologist has recently discovered,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A shocking tragedy occurred near Wyong last night. The Rev. William Herford, resident Church of England clergyman at Wyong, was driving a car…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--A deputation interviewed the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Fitzpatrick) to-day, and urged that the chairman of the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--A shocking fatality occurred near Wyong last night. Rev. William Hereford, resident Church of England clergyman at…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--In the Metropolitan area alone, last year, 82 persons were fatally injured in motor accidents, an increase of 17 on the…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--For a number of years Queensland has possessed the greatest mileage of State railways in the Commonwealth. She now has…
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WELLINGTON, N.Z., Monday.--A motor car ran over the bank at Redwood Pass, near Blenheim, yesterday. Two passengers, Mrs. Mawson (31),…
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Mr. S. Ellis, of the North Coast Motor Cycle Club, Lismore, successfully competed in the annual six days' reliability trial conducted by the Motor Cycle Club of New South…
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On New Yearns Day the number of motor ears at Byron: Bay was a record. Usually motorists pull up. in Bay-street, near the jetty and esplanade. Frequently the…
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It is safe to assert' that few people are interested sufficiently in the working of the State railways, beyond matters that affect them personally, to trouble how the great un…
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SYDNEY, Monday,—The Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. R. T. Ball) stated to-day that plans and specifications were being prepared by…
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