Windsor Motor Fatality
WINDSOR, Tuesday.--An inquest was opened by the District Coroner (Mr. J. B. Johnston) on the body of Martin John Schneider, of Parramatta, who was killed in a motor car…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1918
4,879 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 244
The Golden Fleece. Railway Restrictions Removed
The Railway Department has issued a notice that in future there will be no restrictions upon the quantity of wool transported by rail. Weekly to Sydney. The railways will now…
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The N.S.W. Railway Commissioners have issued their quarterly report for October-December, 1917. There are now 4580 miles of railway over which traffic is run, and the earnings were…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →Little Railway Things. Lads Who Forget the Water
There is laxity on the part of some of the railway officials on a few of our branch lines Travellers know all about it, and so do townspeople. For example, on the train from…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Railway Centre. Muswellbrook Becoming Important
The importance of Muswellbrook has been greatly added to by reason of the fact that the new railway line to Merriwa branches off there. Muswellbrook promises in the near…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Honeysuckle Point. Alterations to Railway Workshops
The Railway Commissioners during the past five years have spent £20,000 on buildings, and a similar sum on machinery, at the Honey suckle Point workshops, Newcastle. ln…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor and Cycling
A new feature in English motor car bodywork design is a single door 29in wide, giving access to the front and rear seats. This idea is carried out by having a Tin section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Sensational Motor Smash. A Parramatta Man Killed. Car Takes a Double Somersault. A Warning in a Strange Dream
A most serious motor-car accident In the Windsor district, on Sunday, resulted In tho death of Mr. Martin John Schneider, of Aird-stroet. Parramatta, and the injury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market. Regular Supporters Sidetracked. Emphatic Protest From "John Bridge."
"We have never failed, when the true interests of wool growers have been assailed, to utter timely warning and to assert our active opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Sydney Wool Market. Regular Supporters Side-tracked! Emphatic Protest by "John Bridge."
John Bridge and Co., Ltd., write:— "We have never failed, when the true interests of wool growers have boon assailed, to utter timely warning, and to assert our…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Work for Prisoners 30,000 on the Roads Tilling the Soil London, Wednesday Night
In the House of Lords last night Lord Newton stated that out of 50,000 war prisoners in the United Kingdom 30,000 were employed mostly on work such as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Mutilated Body. Found on Railway
Early this morning Percy Tuck, of Toongabb[?] was [?]ing along the railway line between Seven Hills and Blacktown when he came [?] the body of a man, much mutilated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pin Bosses' Wages. Who Is to Pay? Railway Commissioners or Coalowners? Temporary Shipping Block. Newcastle
A dispute arose between the Railway Department and the steamship owners' agents. resulting in the holding up ot eight large steamers in this port. Most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Motoring Accident. Moruya
A motor car was proceeding to Bodalla, driven by Mrs. Jermyn, containing the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Macartney Noake and son, Mrs. R. L. Dawson, and Miss Jermyn. When opposite…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death on the Track Another Railway Fatality Young Man Run Over
After having apparently been run over by a train, the body of a young man was found on the railway line between Seven Hills and Blacktown about 3 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country School Facilities. a Motor-train Service
It is proposed to establish, a motortrain service for the conveyance of pupils from outside districts to the Mudgee (N.S.W.) High School. The services will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aeroplane for New Zealanders. Wellington
A Wanganu[?] resident, Mr. Rayney Jackson, has given £1600 to a patriotic society for the [?]mmediate purchase of an aeroplane fer use by the New Zealand forces…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Wool Market Supporters Side-Tracked! Emphatic Protest From "John Bridge."
"We have never failed, when the true Interest of woolgrowers have bren assailed, to utter timely warning and to assert our active opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Father and Son Romance of the Road a Grim Coincidence How Two Men Died Bathurst
Eight years ago Driver Ha[?]sworth, in charge of the mall train, climbed out on the engine platform to attend to some defect. The train was nearing Penrith at the time,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor Fremantle-sydney Record Broken by Nearly Two Days Interesting Incidents of the Journey
The motoring record for tho run from Fremantle to Sydney, a distance of 2586 miles, was broken to smithereens during the week. On Tuesday, about a half-hour after noon…
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