Disappeared From Train Mail Bag Containing £800
PERTH, Thursday:--No clue has been discovered in connection with the theft of a mail bag containing £800 from a country mail train during…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
2,247 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 113
Empire Goods Nation-wide "Buy British" Campaign Mr. J, H. Thomas Starts a Record Train (From a correspondent). LONDON, November 25
Empire buying is spreading like a wave over Britain as a result of the "Buy British" campaign launched last week. This is no mere vague and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Not for Politics Chief Railway Commissioner
SYDNEY, Thursday:--A report circulated yesterday to the effect that Mr. W. J. Cleary, Chief Railway Commissioner was likely to be given a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ballina Train Service
The agitation for the restoration of the Lismore-Ballina daily train has borne fruit, the Lismere stationmaster (Mr. O. L. Kimble) having been notified…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£20,000 Bridge Lottery
To commemorate the opening of the Harbor Bridge, the State Lottery Director, Mr. Whiddon, announced that he intended to conduct a monster…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Scalded on Train
Yesterday afternoon the Ambulance was called to meet the express train from Brisbane to render first aid to a child, aged 14 months, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harbor Bridge and Transport Act
The question has been raised whether the Government will use its powers, held under the mew Transport Co-ordination Board, to eliminate the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Pressed Into Road
Lawrence Carter-Ihnen, of Banks-street, Undercliffe, had a narrow escape from death on Thursday, when a five-ton petrol road roller passed over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harbor Bridge Cost £8,136,946
The report of the Auditor-General in the general accounts of Ministerial departments and State industrial undertakings for the year ended June 30 last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road-making. a Thrilling Story
Professor J. W. Gregory (Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow), in his book, "The Story of the Road," has told the life-story…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Bridge Opening. Great Week of Celebration
It is assured that the celebrations attending the opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge on March 19 will include pageantry such as has never yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITH 2 Cwt. Rail Attempt to Wreck Train
An attempt to wreek a train, the third in the same area within ten days, was discovered between Monifieth and Broughty Ferry, Angus, on the main…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Safety Novel Test Carried Out in Victoria
That an increasing number of motorists are becoming safety-minded was indicated by the manner in which hundreds of motorists voluntarily…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Wonder Bridge. Sydney Harbor Span. Brilliant Opening Celebrations Planned
Costing, with its massive approaches, £10,000,000, and taking more than eight years to build, the bridge over Sydney Harbor, now nearing completion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harbor Bridge Opening Invitation to King? Could Perform Ceremony By Broadcast London Suggestion
LONDON, Thursday:--Australian official and business circles are most hopeful that His Majesty may yet be asked to open the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring Section: the Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A.
The N.R.M.A.'s estimates of the number of motor vehicles on the New South Wales register at the end of December was about 21,000, compared…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cyclist Killed "Hit and Run" Motorist in Stolen Car
ADELAIDE, Friday:--A "hit and run" motorist in a stolen car was responsible for the death of Ross Thomas, a young motor cyclist, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flash Motor Cyclists
The Evans Head correspondent of the Coraki "Herald" says: An impudent display of flashness by three or four Casino motor cyclists excited the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Performance
imagine a car running continuously over all types of roads for 157 days, neither engine nor wheels being allowed to stop and the speede registering no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Notes Peculiarities of Engines and Fuels
Just as "one man's meat" may be poison to his fellow, so too, will one type of ear engine give excellent service when running on some particular…
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