A Narrow Squeak. Train Wrecks a Motor Car
A few days ago a party of motorists returning from Uralla to Armidale, had a sensational experience upon approaching a railway gate, at…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1916
7,678 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250
Maroubra-road Access
At a meeting of the Randwick Ratepayers Progress Association, held at Maroubra, the question arose of affording road access along the sea-front, and several members criticised…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Improving Bondi Road
The first molety of the £50,000 loan granted to the Waverley Council has been received, and the local council has started upon the work of tar-metalling Bondi Road, from Old South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miss Munger, Botany-road, Waterloo
This summer season has been a most un-favourable one for flowers. Owing to the very dry weather it has been almost impossible to get them to grow. It is only the…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Woman Killed by Train. Glen Innes
Mrs. May Ann Hornery, 51. the wife of a [?] was knocked down and killed by the Brisbane mall yesterday, two miles from town. She opened the railway gates as usual,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ash Field Fresh Fish Supply, Liverpool-road
J. H. Kreckler is the proprietor of that well-known fresh fish supply stores, Liverpool-road, Ashfield, and his fish is always of choice quality, and it is always fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Loan for Vaucluse. £25,000 for Roads. Appeal to Ratepayers
The Vaucluse Council intends to appeal to the ratepayers on February 2 for permission to borrow [?] for the purpose of the construction of roads, footpaths, kerbing,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hole in the Road Objections to a Dairy
Alderman Patten instanced at the last meeting of the Granville Council that as many as 200 cows were kept on half an acre of land at Waverley. These cows, he said,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With a Motor Ambulance Somewhere in France. a Battlefield Incident
A simply professed monk of Erdington Abbey, who is acting as a motor ambulance driver with the British Red Cross Society in France, writing to a cousin in a convent…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Samuel Bowen, Ltd. Railway-square, Sydney
The advice, "Study your pocket and support your own," is one that present-day troubles bring home forcibly to all the urgent need there is for, encouraging local…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →E. L. Kingsley and Co., Railway-street, Ltdcombe
To quote lowest prices and offer the best workmanship possible are lines which the general public like to see business run on. They consider there is something genuine…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Trampled on by Horse
John Stephen Brown, 54, a resident of L'Avenue, Newtown, was at the corner of King-street and Enmore-road on Wednesday, when he came into collision with a leader, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.s.w. Wheat. Stacked and Despatched. Rfports From Railway Stations. Despatched
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fish Company. Tram Conductor Loses His Money. Boxer Dave Smith Gives Evidence
On a charge of having obtained [?] William [?] by false pretences at Sydney, in February. [?] John Lowe [?] Eves appeared before Mr. Payten, at the Water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Tickets. Alleged Conspiracy. Toowoomba
In the police court to-day, Leslie Reuben Glover, railway employee, James Smith, licensed bookmaker, and Alexander H. M'Cleo[?], licensed bookmaker, were conjointly charged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Casualties. Tram Driver Injured
On Tuesdny afternoon John Henderson, 3[?], while driving a Mortlake to Ashfield tram, fell off the car when near the Applan Way, Burwood. He was picked up in an unconscious…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Cyclist Injured
A motor cycle and a motor lorry came into collision at the corner of Belmore and Ki[?] streets, St. Peters, about a quarter-past 6 o'clock last night, and the rider of the former,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The New Motor Steamer Kangaroo
Cable advices report that the Western Australian Governments new Diesel-engined steamer Kangaroo reached Capetown on the 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Wages Wanted Railway Men's Request
A deputation representing the executive of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, waited on the Deputy Chief Commissioner for Railways, and asked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Management. Government Proposals Criticised
The anti-Labor press is, as might be expected, opposed to the proposed amendment of the Railway Act. The “Daily Telegraph” says that under…
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