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Railways, roads & transport, 1920

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Trams Collide. Excitement in Sydney. 16 Persons Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 2

A special tram, crowded with people, was on the way to the Victoria Park races to-day, when it collided with an ordinary tram for Zetland, at Waterloo…

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New Aeroplane. Fokker's Exhibit. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

Fokker, the Dutchman, who made some of the best aeroplanes used by the Germans in the war, and the inventor of the machine which bears…

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Items of News. New Racecourse Road

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

At the Wagga Council meeting last evening the Health Committee reported that in conjunction with the Works Committee they considered…

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Railway Buildings

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

A large gang of railway employees, estimated at 100 men, are to arrive in Junee on Saturday morning, to commence work next week in the…

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Alleged Motor Car Thieves. Captured in Coolamon

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

[?] morning last week [?] [?] [?] Ganmain read, came to [?]…

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Motor Accident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1920 · page 4

An accident which occuprred on Thursday demonstrates the necessity for great care in cranking up a motor car. Mr. William Swinde was…

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Railway Workers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 2

The first batch of men, about 50, who are to be employed on the extensive railway alterations and additions at Junee, arrived by mail train on…

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Motorists Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 2

At about 2.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. A. Harrison, a well-known commission agent of Wagga, accompanied by Mrs. Claude Hanlon and…

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Railwaymen's Move

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 2

The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen is inviting the Labor Triple Alliance to consider the question of active intervention in the Irish…

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Railway Clerks' Opinion

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 2

The Ballymena Railway Clerks' Association, replying to the threat of the National Union of Railwaymen to intervene in Ireland, emphatically…

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Tramway Strike. Threat in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 3

It is reported at the Trades Hall that there is likely to be a tramway strike in the next few weeks unless the employees dismissed in the 1917 strike…

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Cable Trams in Melbourne To Cease Running To-Night If Demands Not Conceded. MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 1

A Melbourne message states that there is every probability that the whole of the trains on the cable services will cease running at 7…

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Football. Cadets v. RAILWAY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 5

A fair number of local sports enthusiastically witnessed a match, played on Albert Park, between a team of cadets and the railway on Saturday…

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Deputation to Railway Commissioners

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 4

On their return from Griffith last Thursday afternoon the Railway Commissioners (Messrs. Frazer, Fox, and Cann) received a deputation at Temora…

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Irish Railway Strike General Threat over the Handling of Munitions LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 1

A general strike of the Irish railway workers is threatened, as a result of the refusal of two engine drivers to take a train load of…

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Labor Banquet. Addresses by Members. the Railway Trouble

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 3

The Wagga branch of the A.L.P. gave a banquet and social in honor of Mr. Parker J. Molbney, M.H.R. for the Hume, and Mr. W. J. O'Brien, M.L.A…

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Motor Traffic

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 2

The police have paid special attention to motorists who exceed the speed limit in the streets of Wagga, and several offenders have been heavily…

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President of France. Fall From Train. Incredulous Workmen. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 2

M. Deschavel, President of France, fell out of a fast moving exprss train at Montargis, near Fontainbleau. He was bably bruised, out was not…

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Railway Concessions. Mr. Fitzpatrick's Defence. Reciprocal Arrangement Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 4

Mr. [?] C. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A. commenting on Mr. J. T. Lang's statement regarding railway concessions,said that the Treasurer seemed ob[?]ed…

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Melbourne Trams. Strike Threatened. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 May 1920 · page 4

There is a probability of the whole of the trams on the cable services ceasing to run at 7 o'clock to-night, unless further negotiations with the…

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