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Railways, roads & transport, 1925

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Motoring Smashes Fatality at Carnival Other Riders Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

There was a sensational smash at the Melbourne Motordrome on Saturday night, during the Garden City Handicap for solo motor cycles which…

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Murrumbidgee Bridge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 3

At the conference of delegates representing several bodies on the Yanco irrigation area, it was decided to form the Yanco-Eurolic…

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Country Main Roads

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 1

From the discussions in country councils concerning the probable operations of the Roads Board there would still appear to be a great deal…

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Altered Train Service. Coota-Tumut Line

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 2

From yesterday the 6.35 a.m. mixed train from Cootamundra West to Tumut, week-days, will run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and…

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New Gold Bush. Horrors of the Road. Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 2

Although the Soviet authorities have attempted to block all roads to Tommot, Aldan River, Siberia, in order to check the suicidal gold-rush thither, a…

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Motoring Fataliay. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 3

A motor car which John Dunleavy was driving, crashed into a bridge at Yullunbry, in the Molong district, yesterday. Dunleavy was badly injured…

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Best-street Bridge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 2

The Best-street overhead bridge across the railway at Wagga was to have been opened to-day. However, the work is not yet completed, and…

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Bridge-building Record

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 2

One of the cheap sneers used against the New South Wales ministry is the North Shore bridge. That bridge was over cropping up among…

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Main Roads. Larger Federal Grant Probable. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 4

A conference of Federal and State Ministers was held at the Victorian Premier's office today, regarding the Commonwealth grant to the States for…

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City Courts Motorist Charged Collision with Cart Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 2

At the Parramatta Police Court' Sydney Charles Johnson was committed for trial on a charge of having caused bodily harm to Catherine…

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New Train Arrangements

Ariah Park News · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 4

As a result of the alteration in the train service between Temora and Griffith, particulars of which appeared in last issue, a…

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Motoring Notes Overheated and Underheated Cars

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 7

Overheating is a common trouble which besets many motorists. Some times it arises from an inherent defect in the design of the car, or its…

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Motor Cycling News Conoulty Again

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 3

At the Sydney Club hill climb championships last Saturday, Conoulty made the star, performance, winning ' the 31/2 h.p. solo…

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Main Roads

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 2

Our Gundagai friends, and all who assembled at the conference there recently, need not fear, as far as the cootamundra progress Association is…

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Murrumbidgee Bridge Conference at Yanco High School

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 2

Although 42 different associations and bodies on the Yance irrigation area and Eurolie were written to only eight bodies were represented at the…

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Motors and Motorists Keep the Car Looking Well

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 3

How much are the looks of a car worths Apparently a great deal, if we can judge by the way in which many of our readers have sacrificed…

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Motor Notes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

The American visitors—Seymour, Hepburn, Davis and Anderson—are now packing up their gripe prior to their departure for America on March…

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Cycling and Motor Cycling. Walker Or, [?]Order?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 6

The burning question that has been asked for some considerable time now as to Whom is the best all-round cyclist in the world will be answered on the…

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Wagga Motor Cycle Club

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 6

A committee meeting was held at Mr. B. Moore's shop last night the president Mr. S. H. Wright being in the chair. Affiliation with the Auto Cycle…

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Motoring what, and when, is Saturation Point

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 6

The term "saturation point," is one that the motorist frequently hears used, in trade circles, and the writer even knows of one raw amateur who…

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