Jammed Between Trams. Motor-car Smashed
A two-seated motor-car was almost smashed to atoms at the corner of George and Hunter streets at about midday to-day, but the occupants. Thomas Neale and J…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
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Waterloo Motor Fatality
Lawrence Ryan, [?] a laborer, was knocked down by a taxi cab outside the Clifton Hotel, in Botany-road, Waterloo, and died in South Sydney Hospital from a fracture of a skull…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Tram Track. Laid Along Harris-street
The work of relaying about a mile and a quarter of double tram fines along Harris-street, Pyrmont, has just been completed. These new rails replace the old tracks, which have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motoring. a Presentation
On the eve of his departure for America, Mr. A. J. Knowles, managing director of the Co operative Motor Society, Ltd., was presented by Mr. Treeve on behalf of the staff with a pair of field-glasses…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Produce. Railway Market. Chaff Firm
The usual week-end sale was carried out with somewhat unusual results. Wheaten chaff was firm, and realised Friday's top rate, while oaten went up 1d, making the current rate 5/1…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Wages Boards
At the last meeting of the No. 1 (Sydney) branch of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association a discussion arose as to the delays in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coast Railway. Good Progress Being Made
WINGHAM.—It is a generally recognised fact that the North Coast railway [?] the terminus of which is at present at Taree, will not attain its full meed of success and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nurses and Bundy Clock. Trouble at Sydney Hospital "Making Us Like Tram-guards."
If the nurses of t the Sydney Hospital continue their present opposition to the installation of a bundy clock in their quarters and the directors of the institution stand to their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Tram Block. Delay of Nearly Two Hours
Owing to the derailment of a car which was being shunted into the Randwick tram sheds last night through traffic on the Coogee lines was held un for the best part of two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cricket. Railway Accountants' Club
On Saturday next under the management of Mr. W. C. Melville, the following players of the Railway Accountants' Club will leave by the Brisbane express for Murrurundi…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baths and Overalls. Railway Union's Request
At a meeting of Sydney No. 1 branch of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association it was moved--"That the Chief Commisioner be asked to provide baths for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Red Tape. Employees' Grievances. How They Reach the Chief
For a railway employee of the rank and file to get correspondence speedily before the direct notice of the Chief Commissioner is, according to a statement made at the last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scorching Motor-cars. Danger in the Park
Complaints of the dangerous speed at which moter-cars are permitted to scorch through Centennial Park are made from time to time. Already a good many accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motoring. Regulation of Carburetter
The correct regulation of a carburetter is rather difficult if the car is required to be speedy as well as economical, as a maximum speed calls for rich mixtures and economy for poor ones. One must either make up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Excuse for Labor Now. Legislation to Help the Workers. Railway Workers' Picnic
The city branch of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Association hold a successful picnic on Saturday, at. Clontarf. Five hundred members of the association…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Drummoyne Tram Service
At the last meeting of the Drummoyne Progress Association it was announced that the Chief Commissioner for Railways had declined to alter the present tram stop at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Sleepers for Sydney
EDEN, Saturday.--The steamer Bermagul sailed last night for Sydney, with 3950 sleepers, equalling 106,000 superficial feet. As showing the value of the sleeper trade to the district…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trans-australian Railway. the Contract for Locomotives
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The suggestion made by Mr. Scadden, Premier of West Australia, that the Federal Government had given an extension of time to the contractors for the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glebe Island Railway. Work Progressing
The new goods railway from Wardell-road to Glebe Island Is beginning to put on a businesslike appearance. At Enfield Park tents of all sorts and sizes are to be soon. The park has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Soil Light Railways. Work for Shire Councils. to Lighten Producers'
Settled districts, which lie 10 to 20 miles from a railway in New South Wales have, under our present system of railway building, to look forward to a future which will remove…
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