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Railways, roads & transport, 1920

6,291 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 250

Victoria. Railways. 17th March, 1920

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 15 March 1920 · page 3

Hoop pine log timber (Queensland or New South Wales), supply of (Close 11 a.m.) Particulars Controller of Stores, Sydney…

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Railway Policy

The Sun · Monday 15 March 1920 · page 7

The railway authorities state that at the refreshment dining room tables full rates are charged all persons occupying seats. Food however, can be…

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Motor Fuel Position in Australia. Prime Minister's Intentions. Encouraging Local Production

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1920 · page 4

The vital necessity to Australia of a free and cheap supply of motor fuel was emphasised by the Prime Minister yesterday. Referring to the recently-cabled report of…

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Weeds on Roads

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 4

The Ma[?] State Council (Wellington) discussed the destruction of aexious weeds on roads. The Amaroo Shire wrote asking the council to…

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For Better Roads New Association's Good Start

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 4

The National Roads Association has taken offices at No. 4 Bridge-street. The previsional council elected at the last general meeting has completed all…

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A Labor Candidate Travels a Bad Road

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 1

Mr. F. F. J. Lagerlow, a Labor candidate for Cumberland, speaking at Hoxton Park, said that he had come to that flourishing centre on one of the…

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Railwayadvance a Developmental Line for Northern Australia. Construction Proposals

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 3

In connection with the movement in Western Australia to develop the northern part of that state, as reported in the "Farmer and Settler" recently,…

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Land Settlement and Railways Soldier - Settlers Leasehold Farms in the Federal Territory. Blocks Available

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 3

In order to popularise the Federal capital territory at Canberra (N.S.W.), arrangements have been made for blocks of land to be made available for…

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Pilfering From the Railway. £10,000 Lost Last Year

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 4

In giving evidence at the Goulburn (N.S.W.) police court, in a case in which a man named Percy Cowling pleaded guilty to stealing goods from…

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Improving Tram Service

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 4

The Cremorne Progress Association has written to the tramway authorities enclosing a sketch advocating, a trial [?]rvery of the proposed tram extension down…

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Claim for £2000 Collision Near Lyne Park Railway Commissioners Sued

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 5

Francis Egerton Barraclough, Deputy Master in Lunacy, on behalf of Alfred Stanley Mitchael, a patient sued the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales…

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Stranded Diggers Unable to Find Work The Molong-Dubbo Railway MOLONG

The Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 3

There is indignation among a number of returned soldiers stranded here. They say they were induced to come here by reports of the turning of the first…

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Vacant Railway Land Council Objects to Lease

The Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 7

Some time ago the Willoughby Shire Council wrote to the Premier and the Railway Commissioners protesting against the proposed lease of vacant…

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Molong-dubbo Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 5

The Acting Director of the State Labor Exchanges has been advised by the engineer-in- charge of the Molong to Dubbo railway construction works that the prospects of an early…

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Holbrook-jingellic Railway. Denials by Mr. Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 5

CULCAIRN, Monday.--It was stated by Mr. Bull (Minister for Works) this afternoon that a statement that he had promised the people of the district an extension of the Holbrook to…

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State Motors and the Races

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1920 · page 5

The Premier, referring yesterday to Mr. John Storey's challenge that he was prepared to put up £50, to be devoted to Sydney Hospital, If Mr. Holman could prove his assertion that…

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Current News. Liverpool Roads

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 2

Some 200 men are wanted for work on the main roads of Liverpool under Mr. Holman's scheme for the utilisation of unemployed labor. The work will be under…

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Destroying Rabbits on Roads. Shire Council's Libilitt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 9

DUBBO.—The intention of the Talbragar Shire Council to fight the Dubbo P. P. Board on the question ot destroying rabbits on roads must be futile in view of the decision of the…

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Daceyville Complaint of Bad Roads "Long Sufferer" writes: --

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 6

In view of the fact that a campaign has been launched for the purpose of awakening the civic sense of the people to the necessity for "good roads," and…

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Can Walk on Roads As Well as Footpaths

Evening News · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 6

The works committee of the City Council declined to have anything to do with a proposal [?]ting from the Chief Secretary's Department that pedestrians…

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