Invalid Soldiers. Free Rail and Tram Passes
Major Shillington, M.L.A., has been notified by the A.L.F. Furlough (Privileges) Bureau that the privilege of free rail and tram passes which had already been grinted to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
6,291 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250
Fell From Tram. Perth
Charles Henry Thom, a Civil servant, while travelling by tram on Saturday, was carried past his street. He walked straight out of the tram while in motion and fell heavily…
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The loss of a kit bag containing jewellery worth £100 has been reported to the police. The jewellery comprised watches,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two World's Records New Motor-Cycling Times AUCKLAND
At the Auckland motor cycle sports, Coleman, of Palmerston North, broke the world's record on the grass by covering 15 miles 150 yards in 13min…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Show Ends. a Successful Venture
The Motor Traders Association is pleased with the unqualified success of the motor show in the Hall of Industries at the Royal Agricultural Society's Showground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commissioners and Staff. Conciliation in the Railways. Comparison with Banking Institutions
Speaking at the annual banquet of the Goulburn branch of the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association on Saturday night, Mr. Sydney Smith, general secretary of the Officers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fell Off Train
As the 5.28 a.m. train from Nowra to Sydney was passing Scarborough station yesterday, Edward Johnson, a lad who lives at Scarborough, fell oft on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land of Promise the Untapped Resources of the Southern Monaro. Railway and Port Needed
The need for decentralisation and railway facilities is being acutely felt by resident sin the south-eastern districts of New South Wales, and in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Land Settlement and Railways Soldier-settlers Complaints of Delay in Settlement at Parkes. Waiting for Land
At a meeting of the Parkes (N.S.W.) repatriation committee last week complaint was made of the delay in the settlement of soldiers on blocks of land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crushed Between Truces. a Goulburn Railway Fatality
A man named Thomas Bryant was killed at the South Goulburn (N.S.W.) wheat-stack on Thursday last. Bryant, who was employed at No. 2 cleaner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rabbit Destruction Injecting Poison-gas Into the Burrows. the Motor-car Exhaust
At a meeting of the Tamworth (N.S.W.) Pastures Protection Board last week the chairman (Mr. Payne) gave an account of experiment that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Crisis. Men Reject Offer. Ministers Confer. London, Jan. 11
The Railwaymen's conference has rejected the wages offer and referred it back to the executive for further negotiations with the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial Peace. Railway Service
Speaking at the annual banquet of the Goulburn branch of the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association, Mr. Sydney Smith (general secretary of the New South Wales Railway and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall From Railway Platform
James Randall, aged 18, who lives at Frederick-street, St. Peters, full between the platform and a train at Sydenham station shortly after 6 o'clock last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Carriage of Wool. Railway Rates
When it was proposed last mouth to increase the railway freights, the president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association (Mr. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C.) made representation to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railwaymen's Wages. Government Offer Rejected. London, January 9
The railway conference has rejected the wages offer, and referred it back to the executive for further negotiation with the Government…
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A workmen's train has been detailed near Caen, 83 miles from Cherbourg. Seven-men were killed and fourteen injured…
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At the Parramatta Council meeting on Monday evening Ald. Moss moved the adjournment of the standing orders to refer to the question of railway administration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on a Motor 'Bus
On Friday evening at about 9 o'clock, a motor bus, engaged plying between Ryde and Parramatta railway station, was observed to be on fire. The Parramatta Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Trouble Men Grow Milder Government Stands Firm London, Tuesday Evening
A most important interview, between Sir Eric Geddes and the committee of the railwaymen, regarding the latter's decision of January 9, took…
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