Crushed Under a Train. a Woman Horribly Mutilated near Glen Innes
The body of Mrs. Henry Priest, wile of an old-age pensioner, was found on Tuesday last on the railway line half a mile from Glen Innes (N.S.W.)…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1919
6,224 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 250
The Rise of the Western District Convicts in Chain Gangs Set to Work to Construct Good Road Across the Blue Mountains. Charles White's Interesting Series
For some time before the completion of the railway (1875-6) the Bathurst road was kept in a tolerably good state of repair, although the traffic, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor License at 75
An instance of the hardihood of country pioneers is indicated by Mrs. Isaac Wren, of the Cranbury district, a farmer's wife, 75 years of age, who…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Cycle 24 Hours' Trial Starts To-morrow
To-morrow afternoon at 6, the big field of entrants for the first annual reliability trial of the Northern Suburbs Club, over two rounds of the clock, will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycling
To-morrow the Newcastle Motor Cycling Club will hold a 360 yards last hill clumb at Bull's Gardens at 3 p.m. The starting and timing will be governed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Views on 'Flu Masks in Trains and Trams
"Traveller" has a railway grievance.—The Railway Commissioners have framed a very excellent by law making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land Settlement and Railway Development Soldiers' Settlement at Its Best the Path of the Settler Made Smooth by the Patriotic Helpfulness of Neighbors and Townspeople. Narrabri's Example to Australia
Mr. N. White, a returned soldier, who has selected land under the government scheme, was interviewed by a representative of the "Farmer and Settler" the other day, and related an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inhaling Chamber in a Tramcar
Two tramcars fitted up as inhaling chambers were sent to the Cricket Ground yesterday, to treat the quarantined troops. The photograph shows the interior of one of the cars. The compressed air which works the spray is taken from the brake reservoir. The bottle containing the disinfectant is seen on the left of the picture…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Service. Proposed Electrification
In reply to the deputation from the various St. George councils, associations, etc., which recently waited on the Chief Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Pay. Grievance of Tramway Employees. Threat by the Union
Mr. A.C. Warton general secretary of the Tramway Union, states that the union recently Secured a magistrate's order compelling the Commissioners to pay for holidays worked. in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yanco's Promised Railway
Mr. C.W. Ziele. Leeton, writes in reference to the efforts of the settlers on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Settlement to get the Government to honor its promises to build a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Allies and Russia. Siberian Railway Control. New York
It is announced from Washington that the United States has accepted Japanese proposals for the restoration of railway traffic in Siberia. The Allies are establishing a board of directors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Traffic Congestion. Says Railway Commissioner
The Chief Railway Commissioner has forwarded a report to the Minister of Public Health, showing that certain assertions that the Railway Commissioners had reduced rall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seven Hills Roads
Ex-Councillor G. Best wrote to the Blacktown Council meeting as follows:-"Will you kindly bring under the notice of your council the necessity of making provision on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Road's End
These lines were written by a Sydney soldier to his mate, with whom he had chummed in France for three years:--Fer three long years we trod the same old…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Good Roads Policy. Big Metal Order
The scheme initiated by the Mayor of Hurstville (Ald. E. H. Baker) and Ald. O'Neill fort acquiring metal for that municipality wan brought to fruition on Thursday night, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Have You Read? The Bough Road (William J. Locke)
This has all of Mr. Locke's wonted vividness of treatment and originality in character and incident. If we are not mistaken, it will prove perhaps the very best piece of war…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Railway and Tramway Union
At the annual smoke social of the Esk-bank branch of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Union, held in the Trades Hall on Saturday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Swung a Battle Axe Fight at the Cross Roads John Complains of Jessie
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Bridge in France Damaged by the Huns, and Repaired by the Allies
This fine photograph was forwarded by Llentenant W. T. Anderson, of the Electrical, Mechanical, Mining and Boring Company, A.I.F., together with others, to his father, Alderman Anderson, of North Sydney, who courteously lent it for publication…
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