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Railways, roads & transport, 1935

1,981 stories in Riverina's papers · page 12 of 100

Run Down by Train Was Tunnel Badly Lit? Coroner Investigates Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 6

At the inquest into the death of Charles Henry Isaac Lee, a railway employee, who was killed by an electric train on January 14 in a tunnel…

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Motoring Notes Knee-action Triumph

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 7

Now long past its practical testing stage on the roads, it is claimed that the knee-action springing system adopted in various General Motors' car…

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Motor Registrations

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 7

Figures issued by the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. S. A. Maddocks) show that, at the end of December, there were 238,912 motor…

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A Walking Motor Car

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 7

A motor car that walks along has been designed by a continental manufacturing concern for use in snow-covered districts. Instead of rear wheels,…

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Next Excursion Train

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 7

The next excursion train, return tickets at single fare, will leave Leeton on February 27…

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Ardlethan Tin Mines’ Road. Special Shire Council Meeting

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 2

The Shire President, Cr. L. M. Redgrave, [?] over a special meeting of the shire council on Wednesday afternoon, asked for the purpose of…

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Girl's Body Found Below Hampden Bridge Funeral at Goulburn To-day

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 2

The body of Miss Nancy Fletcher, aged 18 years, who was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River on Monday afternoon at Wagga, was found about…

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Empire Airways May Be Extended to Hong Kong Delegation to Inquire Sydney Bridge Comparison LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 1

According to the Society of British Aircraft Constructor the joint Post Office and Air Ministry delegation, which left for Australia yesterday, will…

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Police Court Tuesday, January 29 (Before Mr. V. H. Wells, P.m.) Alleged Taking of Motor Car

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 6

Ernest W. Griffiths (25) was charged with taking and using a Studebaker motor car, without the consent of James Henry Tuckett, the owner…

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"When the Railway Commissioner Travels" Vicious Suggestion Repudiated

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 8

In this issue of the "Railway Advocate," published on January 15, appeared the text of the departmental document containing instructions that…

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Motor insurances. Third Party Risk

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 2

Failure by interested parties to agree to the exact form of the compulsory third party insurance on motor for vehicles in New South Wales has…

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Battle for Motor Car Owner and Brother Attacked by Three Men

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 8

Three men showed great audacity when they fought the owner and his brother for possession of a stolen car, in Glebe-road, Glebe…

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Rural Rehabilitaion and Unemployment Relief Farmers's Debt Reduction Standard Gauge Railway Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 4

The abandonment of its previous policy that it should control the distribution of its £12,000,000 grant to the States for rural rehabilitation was…

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Uniform Railways Scheme Dropped. Canberra

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 1

Apparently influenced by criticism which the proposal for the unification of railway gauges has aroused in several States the…

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Certified Motor Mechanics

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 2

At the last meeting of the General Executive Council, of the Primary Producers' Union it was decided that the council use its influence to have…

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Gelignite Discovered Buried Under Railway Line Prisoner's Confession Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 1

A quantity of gelignite, which has benn buried beneath the railway line, was found by detectives at Wolseley, in the south-west of the State, during…

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Railway Interstate Teams

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 5

Bill Clarke, of Junee, has been selected as wicketkeeper of the interstate railway cricket team to visit Victoria on January 18 and 19…

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Motor Cycling Speedway Crashes Match Won by N.S.W SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 6

There were several sensational crashes in the challenges match between New South Wales and England at the Showground Speedway last…

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Echo of the Tumblong , Motor Tragedy Supreme Court Case to Be Heard in Melbourne

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 2

This morning several Gundagai residents received subpoenas to attend the Supreme Court, Melbourne next Wednesday week, for the case Max L…

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Sunday Train a Success

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 2

The first Sunday excursion train from Junee to Wagga, which was run during the week-end, proved an un-qualified success both, from the point…

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