"Callous" Action Trams and Procession
A serious complaint against the tramway authorities was made by a couple of aldermen at last night's meeting of Newtown Council. The…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1923
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Retrenchment. Railway Foremen's Clerks
M. L. G. Smith, acting-secretary of the Australian Clerical Association, stated yesterday that the policy of retrenchment adopted by the Railway…
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In presenting a report of the proceedings at the Spit Bridge conference at Manly to the Willoughby Council, the Mayor (Aldeman Clarke) said that the council was not…
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The question of improving conditions on the present route to Ryde from the city boundary at Glebe Island,via Weston Road (Balmain), Bridge Road (Drummoyne), and Gladesville…
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The aldermen of Manly Council are in earnest in their efforts to have the bridge over the Spit constructed with the least possible delay, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country Roads Local Government Protest
The necessity for the development of country roads was stressed by a deputation from the Shires Association of New South Wales to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge Tax. City Council Protest
An intimation was received at the finance committee yesterday from the Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department stating that the North Shore bridge tax of [?]d in the £…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Bridge Objection to Rate
The aldermen of Hornsby Shire Council with a unanimous voice protested against the North Shore Bridge tax being imposed on the rateable lands…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Disappears Lahore, January 17
It is feared that a grave disaster has overtaken the mail train on the run to Colombo from Jaffna. A section of the northern area is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plan Favored for the Spit Bridge
The design, as shown in the illustration, consists of three 152ft. steel truss spans, with an electric opening span of the bascule type, affording a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Roads Grant Cut Down. Albion Park
The Shellharbour Council has struck a ge[?]ral rate of /2½ in the £ on the unimproved capital value, and a special loan rate of [?] in the £ on the same. At a meeting [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sulky Collides with Moving Train. Lockhart
Yesterday morning a peculiar acc[?]ent [?]curred at Milbrulong as the train was entering the railway station. Miss Grace Rawson and Miss Joan Rawson, of Riverhall, were in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Run Over by a Train. Brisbane
The body of a man named R. Cormack was found yesterday near Avondale crossing gates, 15 miles north of Bundaberg. The man had been run over by a train. The head was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tale of the Road Entertaining Bushrangers
Even in the good old days, when anything was likely to happen, it did not often occur that the ordinary citizen had to give shelter for two succeeding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Where All Roads Lead. The Youth of the Church
When the Master-Builder spoke apprehensively of the younger generation knocking at the door, it certainly never occurred to him to apprehend that it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cheap Excursions Why Western Train Fails. LITHGOW
It is considered that the failure of the western cheap excursion train to make good is due solely to the fact that the tickets were of too short…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Disaster Feared. Missing Mail Train. Lahore, Jan. 16
It is feared that grave dis[?]ster has overt[?]en a mail train on the run to Colombo from Jaffna. A section of the northern area of Ceylon is seriously flooded, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road to Success. Can You Be Friendly?
Why are so many seemingly able and alert men occupying obscure positions to-day? A big man in the East who has had occasion to observe, sums it up in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Design for the Spit Bridge by the Public Works Department
The above sketch of the proposed Spit Bridge, prepared by the Public Works Department, provides for a structure 700ft long, £150,000 being the estimated cost of the work, inclusive of the approaches on either side. The design consists of three 152ft steel tru[?] spans and two [?]8ft 4in plate girder approach spans, with graded approaches on either side, with an electric opening span of the bascule type, affording a clear waterway of 70ft, the same as at Pyrmont Bridge, for the passage of Vessels, and a clear headway of 20ft above high water, spring tide, the same as at Iron Cove and Gladesville bridges, to allow of small craft…
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