The Warragamba Work "Can We Do Up Your Roads at Our Expense?" "Rather," Says Penrith Council
Penrith aldermen experienced a pleasant sensation at Monday night's meeting of the Council, when the following letter from the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
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High Street Ratepayers "Word" the Council. Gutters. Motor Cars, and Street Watering
It is good to find the ratepayers taking an native interest in the doings (or neglect) of their Council, and whatever merits there may be in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Restless Railwaymen Wages Trouble Threat to Suspend Traffic LONDON
The underground railwaymen breaten to suspend the Easter holiday traffic unless the Railway Fares Bill immediately passes the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Little Bertha. War Trophy. Unveiling Ceremony in Railway Reserve
The story of the capture by the Australians of the 11-inch German railway gun, which was recently unshipped from the Dongarra— has already been told—the story of how, for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →St. George Second Motor Ambulance. Dedication Service
The seating accommodation proved inadequate Sunday last on the occasion of dedicating St. George Motor Ambulance to the fallen heroes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MOTORING Condition of Anzac-Parade More Repairs
Slowly, very slowly, the general public is awakening to the increasing cost of bad roads. Each time a direct appeal is made to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Railways Easter Holidays. Interstate Holiday Excursion Fares
Holiday Excursion Tickets will be issued to and from Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia (Including Broken Hill), at stations at which through tickets are held…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motoring. Tariff and Cheap Fuel
To those who have been watching developments in motor fuel, both in Australia and overseas, the best news which the tariff contains is the provision lifting the excise duty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Control. London, March 23
Sir Eric Geddes (Minister for Transport). In his presidential address before the institution of Civil Engineers said that only England and America based their railway policy on a regime…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Paris Fashion Notes Frocks by Aeroplane PARIS, January 5
Frocks by aeroplane! Such is the latest craze stimulated by a rivalry between women whose one ambition in life is to be the first to wear each little…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →New Tourist Road. Shorter Route to Newcastle West Maitland
The proposal of the combined progress associations and miners' lodges of the Maitland coalfield to have a tourist road opened up between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thrown Out of Train Sydney Resident Attacked by Intoxicated Passenger WAGGA
Mr. Arthur C. Calvin, of Sydney, while travelling on the Sydney-bound express this morning, found himself in uncongenial company, which nearly cost him…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motoring Don't Overload Trucks Correct Loading Best
Experts who handle motor trucks believe in capacity loads, and capacity loads only, for the longer life of the truck. Every piece of machinery has its…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Melbourne Tramway Trouble
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The conference between the representatives of the Tramway Board and members of the Victorian branch of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railwaymen's Strike Threat
LONDON, March 24.—The men of the London underground railway system threaten to go on strike and suspend the Easter holiday traffic unless the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine Engineering Work Difficult Railway Deviation
The work of duplicating the line from Waterfall to Wollongong, has been in progress some years now. The section Waterfall to Otford is open for traffic,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over the Zig Zag Motor Falls Over 500Ft. Seven Men Injured Katoomba
A sensational smash occurred on the Jenolan Caves-road early this morning, when a car going up the famous zigzag went over the side at one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Railways Agitation for Resumption West Maitland
In consequence of the heavy increases in the fares and freights on the railways of the Maitland Coalfield, which are owned by the South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirteen Killed Terrible Train Smash Railway Oars Hit Express ROME
Eight railway carriages which became uncoppied from a train at Pontebba, a village on the old Austrian frontier, descended as steep incline and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed by a Train. Fatality at Central Station
Martin William Busbnell Broderick (28), commercial traveller, who served at the front, was terribly injured at the Central Railway Station yesterday afternoon. He was…
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