The Motor Safety First Advice: the 1917-18 Year Book
Every motorist should procure a copy of the 1917-18 Year Book now being issued by the Automobile Club of Australia. It contains a number of most interesting and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1918
4,879 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 244
Motor Cycling Coming Competitions : First a Reliability Trial
The Motor-cycle Club of N.S. Wales last night held a meeting to arrange competitions for the near future. In all probability the first event for decision will be an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Car on Fire
At [?] this morning a motor-car owned and drives by [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Zetland Tram Service Waterloo Council Protests
"It is a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Land Settlement and Railway Development. Soldier Settlers a Statistical Summary Providing Homes for N.S.W. SOLDIERS
The thirty-eight annual report of the N.S.W. Department of Lands states that under the scheme initiated by the Government for providing homes for widows or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ministers and Motor-cars. An Extraordinary Scheme of Economy
There has been a great outcry in Victoria against the music of the Commonwealth Government's motor-cars by Ministers and departmental officials. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Women Motor-Cyclists an Invaluable War-time Development. Mastering the Machine
In pre-war days women did not seem inclined to favor motor cycling, but since the pressing demands of war work have involved travelling as expeditious as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Increased Railway Revenue
The report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ended December 31 last shows a revenue of £2,422,751, as compared with £1,996,335, for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thefts on the Railway
A number of thefts of valuable packages have occurred on the railway goods trains lately, and as the regular detectives employed by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dazed and Burnt Railway Electrician's Plight
Suffering from burns on both hands and shock, the result, it is surmised, of having received an electric shock, Frederick Strom, aged 28, an electrician employed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Child Killed by Motor Car
Harry Curtin, aged 5, who lived in Prospect-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down by a motor ear in Crown-street, near Campbell-street, Surry Hills, this afternoon, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kogarah Motor Smash
A collision between two motor cars occurred in Rocky Point Road, Kogarah, on Monday afternoon, when one of the cars was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Railway Control. New York
The Senate Committee has adopted an amendment to the Railroad Bill, providing for Government control, to terminate a year after the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aerodrome Bombed London, Friday Night
An Admiralty report states that naval aircraft bombed the Engel aerodrome and munition dump. Direct hits were made, and fires were started. All the machines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Roads
Rydelmore Council is in receipt of a letter from the Under-Secretary Local Government Department enclosing voucher for £100, grant for main roads in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motoring Road Neglect Hampers Industry
Rough weather conditions tend to make bad roads worse. This fact has again been realised since the advent of the rain. To call the attention of the public to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overhead Bridge Granted
Mr. Bruntnell, M.L.A., has received word from the Railway Commissioners, in reply to his continued representations, that, after further consideration, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Local Government and Roads
There are some passages in the annual report of the Local Government Department which should be read with deep interest by every motorist. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Land Speculators and Roads
"Holder of Six-foot Lot" writes to "The Argus":—" 'Since the council interested on the vendors ballasting and blue meeting the roads in their subdivisions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Dangerous Road
Mr. A. Taylor, Dural, drew the Hornsby Council's attention, by letter to its last meeting, to the condition of Cartor's-road, Dural. The heavy rains this season, he…
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