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Railways, roads & transport, 1935

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Swimming Andrew Charlton to Train Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 6

The former Olympic swimmer, An drew Charlton, announced to-day that will leave for Sydney at the week end to undergo intensive six weeks…

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Extension of R.a.c.a. Road Service

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

Owing to a number of applications from motor garages from all parts of the State to act as road service stations of the Royal Automobile Club of…

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News and Notes From N.r.m.a. Improved Road

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. Touring Department has been advised by the Kangaroo Valley Tourist und Progress Association that the road surface on…

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Yass—canberra Early Start to Be Made on Road Heavy Expenditure

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 1

An early start is to be made on the reconstruction of the Yass-Canberra road, and a first-class road is to be built…

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Transport in Victoria Some Railway Lines May Be Closed

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 1

The Victorian Minister for Transport (Mr. Kent Hughes) indicated in Melbourne on Wednesday directions in which the law might have to be…

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Railway Gauges Federal Cabinet Proposals for Further Unification

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

The Parliamentary Secretary for Re-employment (Mr. Stewart) has submitted proposals to the Federal Cabinet for the unification of…

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Motoring Position of Vital Controls

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

It is unfortunate that for a variety of reasons manufacturers have found it impossible to adopt a com[?] standard practice with regard to…

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Motor Service Owners

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 4
Also in Daily Advertiser

The Government Tourist Bureau, wishing to make available to the travelling public complete details of fares and times of arrival and…

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Railway Passes for War Veterans on Anzac Day Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 1

The State Government has dcided to grant free railway, passes to every war veteran in New South Wales on April 25 to enable them to participate…

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Victorian Railway Commissioners Criticised by Judge Delay in Arbitration Proceedings Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 2

Criticising what he described as procrastination on the part of the Victorian Railway Commissioners, Judge Drake Brockman, in the Federal…

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Motor Body Export

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

There has been much activity lately at Port Adelaide, where ships, such as the "New Zealand, have been loading complete motor car bodies for use in…

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Motoring Notes Dashboard Lighting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 3

It is surprising that automobile manufacturers have not made provision for illuminating the whole of the engine and back of the dashboard, so…

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Progress of the Motor

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 4

SO MANY of the components of a motor car have become standardised and a commonplace that few motorists ever pause to…

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Orange Aerodrome Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 3
Also in Daily Advertiser

The Minister for Works (Mr. Weaver) left Sydney last night for Orange to discuss with the Municipal Council the question of exchanging an…

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Train Crash Russian Expresses Heavy List of Injured Frozen Signals Responsible Moscow

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 1

Frozen signals are thought to be the cause of the sleeping cars of the expresses from Leningrad to Tislis and Leningrad to Moscow crashing on…

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Position of Railwaymen

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 2

The Junee Sub-branch of the Australian Railways Union carried the following resolution: "That the Junee sub-branch of the A.R.U. views…

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Motor Service Owners

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 2

The Government Tourist Bureau, wishing to make available to the travelling public complete details of fares and times of arrival and…

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Left Nervy and Sleepless Result of Motor Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 4

"Eight years ago I was involved in a motor accident, which left me in a low depressed condition," states Miss. G.S.R., of Haberfield, N.S.W. "I got…

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