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Railways, roads & transport, 1931

1,275 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 64

Road Purchase Application

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

Clive Abbot Hayes, parish of Calafat, county of Wynyard. William Henry Sheather, parish of Kimo, county of Clarendon…

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Sydney Harbor Bridge Final Stage of Steel Work

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 6

The last pair of "hangers" from which the Harbour Bridge decking on the north side is suspended and the last cross-girder…

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Midsummer Railway Excursions

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1
Also in The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser, The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review, Adelong and Tumut Express

Country people are given opportunity for cheap railway travel in a series of excursion trains which will run during the second week in…

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Railway Employees Working 44-Hour Week Liable to Salary Reduction SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Many railway employees who benefit by the 44-hour week are now liable to the 8 1-3 per cent. reduction provided by the Public Service Salary…

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Railway Men Not Leaving Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

The "Cross" says: It is incorrect to say that men sent to Junee from Harden have been returned to that depot. Two men were last week sent…

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Items of News Trespassed on Railways

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday before Messrs. I. Beavers and W. J. Blake. J'sP. James Frederick Williams aged 25 years pleaded guilty to a…

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Motoring Notes Fluctuations in Oil Pressure

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

There are many motorists who cause themselves endless worry toy imagining that a falling-off in oil pressure as the engine reaches the higher…

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City Roads. £ 100,000 Contract Offer

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 14

Australian Roads, Ltd., has offered to take over the Sydney council's road constructor programme on debentures or other securities maturing…

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Another City Bridge to Cost £153,000

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 14

A bill is to be introduced into the Legislative "Assembly next week to give Ryde Council power to construct a bridge across the Parramatta River…

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Motor Ship Re-floated Injured Seaman's Death Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

The English motor-ship Enton, which was stranded on a reef near Noamea, has sailed again. A seaman, who had his leg severed when the crash…

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Train Wrecking Near Katoomba Crowbar on Line Katoomba

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

What is believed by the police to have been a deliberate attempt to wreck the Dubbo mail, was made near the Katoomba railway station early…

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THe Cootamundra Railway. Accident, January 26, 1885

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 3

"Blue Gum," in the Tumut "Express": The rain which set in this Saturday evening (January 24, 1931), reminds me of the phenomenal fall of…

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Express Train Service No Curtailment Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1

The proposal to reduce the express train service between Melbourne and Sydney by eliminating the Sunday train from Melbourne has been…

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Sydney Harbor Bridge Reported Huge Loss to Builders London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1

Referring to reports in the British technical press that Dorman, Long, and C. Ltd. have lost a sum of £1,000,000 in the construction of the Sydney…

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A Silent Motor Cycle

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2

At the motor cycle show at Olympia, a few weeks ago, there was exhibited a remarkable new motor cycle, which has been kept a secret by a…

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