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Railways, roads & transport, 1920

6,291 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

Pilferers' Protection What Railwaymen Fear BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 6

The attention of the Minister for Railways was directed to-day to the report of a prosecution of a railway employee for pilfering, in the course of…

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"Can Go to Hades" Angry Railway Union Attacks Queensland Minister BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 2

An order issued by the Railway Department to give preference of employment in metal work to members of the Amalgamated Society of…

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Fight at Newtown Tram Men Injured Police Make Arrests

The Sun · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 2

Two tramway employees, one attached to the Newtown depot and the other to Rozelle, were injured during a fight in the depot yards early last…

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The Indomitable Spirit of the Far West True Australians Who Have Faith and Energy a Picture of Bourke—On the Road to Queensland. Wonderful Droving Feat—A Lonely Constable

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 January 1920 · page 6

A little over thirty years ago the Government of New South Wales thought a lot of the river Darling. They thought so much of it that they went to the…

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Sir Ross Smith. Aeroplane Engine Repaired Good Work at Ipswich. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 6

About 200 members of the Institute of Engineers and the Automobile Club journeyed from Brisbane to Ipswich to-day to inspect the engine and propeller of Sir Ross Smith's…

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Road to Wombeyan Caves. Storms Cause Wash-outs

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 5

MITTAGONG. Friday.--Cyclonic storms have resulted in large wash-outs in the mountain portion of the road from Mittagong to the Wombeyan Caves. The principal damage is…

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British Trade. Road to Recovery. London, Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 7

The Board of Trade Journal estimates, that the invisible exports from the United Kingdom in 1919 amounted to £520,000,000 sterling, including £80,000,000 from oversea, investments…

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Railway and Tramway Service

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 7

The executive of the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway aud Tramway Service Association has passed the following resolution:— "That in the apparently certain return of a…

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Tram and Motor Collide Woman's Skull Fractured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 4

In consequence of a collision between a tram car and a motor car on Saturday afternoon, Vera Filmer sustained a fracture of the skull, and was taken to Sydney Hospital…

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The Painters' Page Trade Hints Motor Car and Carriage Painting (Continued from last issue) Smoothing and Levelling the Surface

Construction and Local Government Journal · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 18

Car and carriage painting consists in getting a surface, and this means an exhaustive outlay of surfacing work. The greater amount of work, in fact…

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Trams Collide Woman Injured

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 5

Owing to the presence of a place of wond of one of the ralls, a city bound tram was cred this morning near Enmore [?]…

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Off the Footboard Tram Men's Edict

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 4

The Tramway Union decided this morning to indulge in a strike against the practice of footboard riding on the part of passengers…

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Casualties. Fatal Railway Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 8

An accident involving the death of a woman occurred at St. Marys railway station yesterday. In attempting to alight from a train, Mrs. Hariett Hacket, aged 60, fell between…

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Motoring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 8

Mr. C. E. Morgan, secretary of the Automobile Club of Australia, ha[?] received a letter from Sir Ro[?]s Smith acknowledging telegraphic congratultions from the club…

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Co-operation. Railwaymen's Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 7

The railway and tramway employees, at a meeting held last week, representing all branches of the services, decided to reduce the present ever-increasing cost of living by…

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South Maitland Railway Resumption Urged CESSNOCK

The Sun · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 5

A meeting of citizens yesterday indignantly protested against the recent increase in fares and freights by the South Maitland Railway Company,…

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Queen's Square Motor Smash

The Sun · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 5

The condition to-day of Miss Vera Filmer, whose skull was fractured when she was thrown out of a motor car which collided with a tram near…

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Railway Fatality. Woman's Leg Severed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 4

Mrs. Harriet Hackett (60), a resident of St. Marys, had a leg severed below the knee, and died an hour later, in Parramatta Hospital, as a result of a accident at St. Marys…

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Accident at Prospect Child Killed by Father's Train

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 1

Elsle Waters, 12 who lives with her parents at Prospect Quarry, met with a shocking death yesterday afternoon lier fatter and brother were driving the…

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Departmental Delays Slow Methods of Lands Department. a Road Problem

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 3

A Carcoar (N.S.W.) correspondent of a Sydney daily newspaper complains of the slow methods of the Department of Lands. On October 3rd, 1917…

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