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Railways, roads & transport, 1936

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The Paringa Aeroplane Search Statement by Vincas' Quartermaster Believed That Ship Foundered Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 2

The Federal Government to-day decided to make an aeroplane search between Cape Everard and Wilson Promontory for the missing ship, Paringa…

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Railway Working Employees' Suggestions 22.3 Per Cent. Adopted

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 3

Out of 2151 suggestions made by railway employees for the improvement of the service, the department adopted 480, or 22.3 per cent…

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Aeroplane Engines Allegations Against French Firm Paris

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 1

An official inquiry is to be held into the allegation that a French firm sent aeroplane engines to Italy, via Hamburg, in contravention of the…

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Air Mail Delays Rain Damage to Baghdad Aerodrome London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 1

The India-bound mail 'plane which left London on December 24 has been delayed at Rutnah Wells for three days because the aerodrome at Baghdad, the…

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Petty Officer's Death on Howlong Road Car Somersaulted

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2

With his neck broken, the body of Percival G. Jones, about 28, a petty officer of H.M.A.S. Cerberus, was found lying close to a damaged car on the…

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Gangster Crime Constable Shot in Forehead Near Central Railway Station Brush with Gang Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 1

Shot in the head by a suspect whom he was chasing in the city early this morning, Constable John Terbutt, attached to the consorting squad, is now…

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Motor Horns Barred Hobart

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2

The new regulations restricting the use of motor horns here will be enforced from to-day. Motorists are prohibited from sounding horns between…

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Child Straying on Railway Line

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2

Teddy Power, aged about two and a half years, was found straying on the railway line with his tricycle, near the Wagga railway station, yesterday…

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Thames Floods River a Mile Wide at Windsor Many Roads Impassable London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Floods due to recent heavy rain, are still increasing in seriousness and extent. The Thames continues to rise all along its course from Oxford down…

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Wagga Militiamen In Motor Accident on Hume Highway Six Reported Injured None Seriously WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Falling to take a bend in the road, a car, in which six members of the Wagga milltia were returning to Wagga from a shooting match at…

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Railway Traffic Heavy Bookings in Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Heavy railway business during the Christmas holidays is reflected in the revenue figures of the two main city booking offices, Central Station and…

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Red Hill Railway Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

The third section in the new Red Pill railway scheme will be started next month, and will consist of widening the track between Port Augusta…

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General Motors-holden's Enterprise

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

General 'Motars-Holden's Ltd. claims, that it is one of the great manufacturing industries and the largest Private employer of labor in…

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The Year in Motoring

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

Reviewing motoring in 1935, the president of the National Roads and Motorists' Association (Mr. J. C. Watson) stated that the Year had been one…

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Motoring Notes Neglected Springs Many Like Solid Beam

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

An inspection of motor cars and tracks pulled into the kerb in the streets of Wagga reveals that the average motor owner pays little or no…

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Wagga Militiamen in Motor Accident on Hume-highway Six Reported Injured None Seriously

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

Failing to take a bend in the road, a car, in which six members of the Wagga militia, were returning to Wagga from a shooting match at…

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Leg and Arm Severed on Railway at Marrar. Man Falls Between Trucks

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

About 1.30 o’clock on the morning of 25th December, the Wagga Ambulance received a call to the Marrar railway station. A little while before…

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The Motor of To-Day. (BY “High Tension,” N.l.a.m.) High Compression Engines

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

The rapid [?] in the compression rating at [?] to the past six years has been one of the most, importing [?] in improving…

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Ganmain Railway Yard Wheat and Chaff Figures for 1935

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

The total wheat received at the Ganmain railway yard for the current season, up to December 31 amounted to 138,411 bags, ogf which amount…

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Motoring Front Tyres Come First

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 5

Sometimes you will hear two motorists arguing in a friendly way as to whether the better pair of tyres should be placed on the front or the rear…

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