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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

450 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 23

The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. has decided to ask the Federal Government to expedite the issue of the report of the Departmental accountants who are…

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Travelling Motor Cyclists with Sugar-bag of Provisions Want Dole—but Get Three Months Each

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 2

Before Mr. Forrest, P.M:, this morning, John Heason was charged with falsely pretending to Constable Imrie that he was a person in destitute…

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Missing Aeroplane

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 6

With six passengers on board, the A.N.A. monoplane, piloted by Captain Shortridge, which left Sydney at 8.15 on Saturday, was 12 hours overdue…

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Aeroplane Fatalities Three Persons Killed London

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 1

The Air Ministry announces that Lieutenant McDowell was killed when his plane nosedived and crashed in flames at Leucharo training base…

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Motor Notes Modern City Transport Tram-cars Becoming Out of Date

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 3

Outside of Australia, motor-’buses are gradually conquering the strongholds of tramcars in almost all the leading countries of the world. In the…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 3

The N.R.M.A has decided to ask the Federal Government to expedite the issue of the report of the Departmental accountants who are inquiring into the…

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Motorists the Best Spenders

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 4

It is a moot point if civic authorities in this country really appreciate the worth of the motor car as a contributing factor to business activity…

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Unemployed Meeting Work on Bungendore Road

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 2

Alderman J. G. Harris presided over a large meeting of unemployed, in the Triumph Theatre on Tuesday night, when matters were discussed in connection…

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Travelled by Train But Paid No Fare Four Defendants Fined

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 1

Before Messrs. T. J. Murray and G. O’Hanlon, J’s.P., this morning, Ernest Albert Armstrong, James Daley. Amos George Thompson and Victor…

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Motor Notes Unsplinterable Glass to Be Obligatory in England

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 3

More than once during the last few years, the writer of these notes has made reference to the great advantage of unsplinterable glass for car windscreens…

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Motor Cycling Q.M.C.C. Doings and Notes of Interest Q.M.C.C. to Meet in New Quarters In Morrissett Street

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 3

Members of the club won’t have to walk so far, now! “Good Old Taters” has “changed his spot”, and he will now be found at a “joint” in Morrissett St…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. has learned that the declaration of a number of important traffic thoroughfares in Sydney as “through” streets is being officially…

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Motor Notes Motorists’ Road Funds Danger of Appropriation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 March 1931 · page 3

A country does not have good roads because it is prosperous, but becomes prosperous because of good roads. The last decade has seen wonderful…

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Farmers’ Motor Trucks Registration Costs Ninety Bushels Wheat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 March 1931 · page 4

The automobile has rearranged rural life expanding it geographically and [?]cially. No longer does distance worry the farmer and grazier, his markets, his…

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Motor Cycling Q.M.C.C. Doings and Notes of Interest the Q.M.C.C. Dirt Track Enthusiastic Members Doing Good Work

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 3

Last week-end, it was only intended to spend the morning on the dirt track, and the afternoon was to be devoted to sports, on the track site (Canberra…

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Shire Roads Engineer's Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 April 1931 · page 2

The report of the Shire engineer, Mr. Boult, read at yesterday's meeting of the Shire Council, was as follows:—…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 April 1931 · page 2

On Wednesday last an accident occurred to a motor lorry on the Araluen—Moruya. road, about three miles from Araluen. There were four…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 3

Those who complain that new roads are uninteresting, should try the road which has recently been made in the Zambesi Valley, Africa. Following a…

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Motor Cycling Q.M.C.C. Doings and Notes of Interest By “Two-port” Q.M.C.C. Picnic at Pine Island An Enjoyable Outing

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 4

The Q.M.C.C. picnic at Pine Island, last Sunday, proved an enjoyable affair, a good number of clubites going cut. Various games were put on, and…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 4

The key to the situation of the motor industry in Germany is given by the fact that 30,000 fewer care were sold in 1930 than in 1929. In Berlin…

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