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Railways, roads & transport, 1932

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Motor Notes

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 3

Hard-working motorists are advised to relax after a tiring day at the wheel these hot humid days, to seek a comfortable chair and listen…

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Premiers' Conference Railway Deficits Conference Of Transport Experts MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 2

The Loan Council to-day dealt with the railway de[?]. It was stated that in every State, with the exception of Western Australia, some move…

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Mr. Lamb, K.C. Loss of Railway Retainer Follows New Guard Case Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 2

The State Government to-day instructed the Railway Commissioners that in future they must not employ Mr. Lamb, K.C., to appear…

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Motoring Notes Australian Car and Driver Break 10 Mile Record

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

It is pleasing that after so much harassing delay because of the state of the 90-mile beach, Mr. Norman ("Wizard") Smith has been able to…

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Cootamundra Aeroplane Not Airworthy Pilot Makes Forced Landing

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 6

At the Cootamundra aerodrome about 7 o'clock yesterday morning Captain W. L. Pittendrigh, when testing for airworthiness a monoplane…

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Fastest Train in the World

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 8

The story of the progress of the British railway companies during 1931 is striking. The title of the fastest train in the world…

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Struck by Train Unemployed Man's Death Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 1

Daniel Hallahan, aged 40 years, white crossing the railway line near Dulwich Hill station this morning, was struck by a train and died…

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Harbor Bridge Lottery First To Queanbeyan Second to Newcastle

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 21

The Harbor Bridge Lottery was drawn yesterday before a record crowd. It was announced that the 34th lottery would be drawn on…

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Goods Train Derailed Guard Taken to Hospital Lithgow

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 1

Following the derailment of four trucks and two oil tanks of a goods train between Lithgow and Wallerawang this morning, W. Richards, the…

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Junee Central Railway Gates

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 4

The Railway Department at Junes has issued instructions to the effect that from to-day any person crossing the central railway gates on foot is to…

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One Railway System Premier Call a Conference Commissioners to Report by March 1 Corporation On Lines Of A Private Company Now Proposed

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 3

The creation of a corporation on the lines of a private company to control all the railways in Australia is a recommnendation to be…

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Plunged Into Creek Shire Road Plant Goes Over Side of Bridge YOUNG

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 1

When the tractor, grader, and roller belonging to the Burrangong Shire Council was crossing the Bulla creek bridge, at the 15-mile Grenfell road,…

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Are Ours Safe? Bridge Collapses at Young

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 2

Perhaps Councillor Hyndes will hammer his point harder than ever now—he has always declared that the Shire bridges must be kept in a fit…

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Ship Damaged Strikes Pyrmont Bridge Funnels and Mast Snapped Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 1

When the Pyrmont bridge closed on the coastal steamer Tyalgum late on Friday night, the funeral and after mast were snapped off, and two large…

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Local and General the Railway Has the River Water

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 2

The river Water was made available to-day to tho railway, at Cootamundra—weeks earlier than expected. There are millions of gallons. It did not…

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Railway News

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 4

The new S.M., Mr. P. O'Sullivan, from Harden, has completed his first half year in Cootamundra, and fluda himself associated with quite a lot of…

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Woman Motorist Dives to Rescue Drowning Woman Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 4

A woman who jumped into the Yarra from the Anderson-street bridge last night, was resumed by a fashionably dressed woman, who…

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Trams Collide Five Persons Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 3

Five persons suffered minor abrasions and shock when two trams collided head-on at Broadway, Glebe, this morning. There were many passengers…

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White Flash Motor Spirit

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 3

In order that you may get every single degree of horse power that your modern motor was built to develop, treat it to a modern fuel. It…

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Harbor Bridge Control of Transport Cabinet Decision Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

The State Cabinet to-day decided to bring down a bill to hand over the control of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Transport Co-ordination Board,…

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