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Railways, roads & transport, 1930

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Railway Farewell To Assistant Chief Inspector Mat Kirley

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Approximately a hundred railway men, from various parts of the South, assembled at the Town Hall Assembly icon, last Friday night, to…

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New Year Resolutions for the Motorist

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Everybody makes resolutions for the New Year—nearly every body breaks them. Why not a set for the benefit of motorists?…

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Junee Nervous Rumors of Railways Re-organisation "To Be Reduced to an Ordinary Station" Railway Officials Anticipate Development Rather Than Reduction

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

According to our Junee correspondent, "some wild rumors gained currency in Junee on Saturday last to the effect that there were to be…

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Railway Smash Trucks Topple Into Creek Adelaide

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

A serious railway accident occurred near Outalpa to-day, when, as a result of a washaway, the line collapsed, and 19 trucks toppled over…

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In City Traffic Wagga Motorist Caught Melbourne

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

At Chelsea police court today, Louis Vaughan Ingleburt, salesman, of Wagga, was fined £3 for having driven a motor car in a dangerous…

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Motorists Fined Dangerous Driving

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

Several motorists appeared yesterday before Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., at Wagga Police Court. James Atkinson Stobo, motor…

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Railway Inspection

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The Town Clerk, Mr. R. Emblen, has been notified that the new chief Railway Commissioner, Mr, W. J. Cleary, will visit Wagga on January…

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Naming a Bridge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

The Illabo Shire Council desired to name the new bridge over Houlaghan's Creek at Wallace Town, the Lord Bridge as a compliment to the work of…

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Harefield Road Government Offer to Illabo Shire

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 2

The Illabo Shiro Council held its monthly meeting at the shire offices. Junee, on Saturday. The president, Councillor Lord, presided…

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Old German Bomb Found at Kent Road London, Jan. 6

The Daily Express · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 1

An unexploded German plane bomb was found embedded in a box of soft earth on the roof of an Old Kent Road cottage by workmen…

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Motors and Mptorists Motoring Notes More and More Eights

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 8

That the growing popularity of the right cylinder motor car in a world-wide development is emphasised by the number of eight cylinder cars exhibited…

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Record Motor Trip

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 8

P. Donnelly left Sydney at 4. 30 a.m. on Sunday, and readied Bourse at 2.28 p.m. on the same day, thus completing the 512 miles in less than 10…

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Gin Drives Motor Car

The Daily Express · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 5

"The early bird catches the early worm," says the' Narromine "News." Lately the "News" proprietor has been creeping into his editorial den…

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Holiday's Tragic End Race to Hospital Lands Car in Macleay River Three Children of Schoolmaster Drowned with Wife, a Victim of Burning, Distressed Husband Takes Wrong Road to River Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 1

A shocking tragedy occurred at Jerseyville, near Kempsey, last night, when three children were drowned through a car, which was…

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Two Road Pests

The Daily Express · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 4

There are, according to the N.R.M.A., two road pests each of whom scores 100 per cent, as a double-barreled, altogether-awful weariness of…

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Run Down by Train Porter Killed Instantly Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 4
Also in Cootamundra Herald

John Fry, aged 68 years, a railway porter, of Redfern; was killed instantly when he was run down by an electric train at the Central Station…

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Hillston-Roto Railway

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 6

On Saturday the Mayor wired to the Minister for Works to ascertain when the work of constructing the line would…

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Touring Motorists

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

Fired at by Bedouins in the French Syrian desert, and a narrow escape from being thrown into prison in Turkey are some of the experiences…

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Speed Motoring "Wizard" Smith in N.Z. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 3

Norman ("Wizard") Smith, who is in New Zealand, where he will make an attempt on motor speed records, writing to a friend in Sydney, says that…

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