A Waggon Accident. Horses Frightened by Motor-Car
Startled by a motor-car, a team of horses attached to a wheat-waggon ran away at Milbrulong (N.S.W.) in the Lockhart district, and collided with…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1919
6,224 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250
How They Got Round by Jumping the Motor Lorries "Peter the Gunner" Gives Out Some Recollections of Joy-riding Days
"Lorry-jumping was an art much practised in France—an art whereby one moved from place to place without apparent means of transport…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Construction of Wooden Ships at Singapore. Are Equipped with Two Sets of Powerful Skandia Motors
On Sept. 23, 1918, there was successfully launched at Tanjong Rhu, Singapore, the first of two wooden steamships built by the Anglo-Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Congestion Commissioners' Admissions PARKES
Business people have complained for some time of the delay in the deliver of goods at Parkes railway station. The commissioners now explain that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Men's Troubles Mass Meetings at Newtown. a Temperate Opening
The discontent which has been apparent among a certain section of the employees under the Railway Commissioners broke out into open protest at…
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The St. George District Ambulance have employed Mr. Ernest Wrigley, a returned soldier, as the permanent man for the local…
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MUDGEE, Thursday.--Cocll John Jackson (30), a married man with two children, and general manager of Marks and Co.'s grocery and produce departments, was killed…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Mr. Hunter, Acting Premier and Acting Minister for Railways, to-day replied to criticism levelled at the action of the Railway Department in reducing services…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tram Scaling. a Dangerous Game. Mistakes That Are Made. Departmental Vigilance
Tramfare-scaling is an art. Not all can make a success of it. To those who can it brings its own reward. As in all artistic pursuits, most of its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Workers. Abolition of Contracts. Arbitration Favored
The election of officers to the railway workers' branch of the A.W.U. for the year commencing on June 1 next resulted:--President, Mr. J. B. Dooley; vice-presidents. James Byrne,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bullock on Railway. Excitement at Ashfield. Man Injured
Some excitement was caused between Ashfield and Summer Hill yesterday morning by the presence of a bullock on the railway line. An official, who went along the line to warn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MOTORING Traffic Regulatiosn What America Did The Commercial Aeroplane
It is stated on authority that about 300 cases weekly are heard in the metropolitan district for breaches of the Traffic Act…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →H.m.s. Furious, the British Navy's Most Notable Aerodrome Ship
Now that the war is over, the Admiralty is permitting; the publication of photographs of many vessels, the construction and appearance of which have necessarily been kept secret during the war. H.M.S. Furious Is one of the "Huss, hush" vessels about which so much has been heard. This enormons floating aud highly mobile naval aerodrome is one of the many strange vessels which the requirements of modern warfare have placed under the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →A Child Drowned. Alleged Defective Bridge
At the City Coroner's Court yesterday an inquest was held on the body of Adeline Douglas, aged 2 years and 4 months, lately living with her parents in John-street,…
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Alarm is being felt here in regard to the influenza outbreak in Melbourne, and many people who had been spending a holiday in the southern capital are coming home…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. Holman's Exit Leaves Melbourne To-day Special Train Chartered MELBOURNE
The Premier of N.S.W. (Mr. Holman), the Treasurer (Mr. Fitzgerald), the Minister of Works (Mr. Ball), and the Minister of Lands, who came to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tram Conductor's Claim Verdict Against Commissioners
A case of importance to railway and tramway employees was heard in the Small Debts Division of the Central Police Court…
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The Tramway authorities notify that on Monday the timetables in force in Sydney will be similar to week-days, with slights alterations between 5 and…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cuerent Literature. a French Tramp in War
We have heard a good deal of the French soldier, but very little of the French sailor, although his courage and devotion afloat have equailed those of his brother ashore. The…
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