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Railways, roads & transport, 1925

13,896 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Railway Commissioners

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 4

Sir, -- The appointment of the assistant Railway Commissioners has created much discussion in the columns of the daily Press and it has been…

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A Motor Smash Police Court Sequel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 7

The collision which occurred between two motor cars on the Lane Cove Road, Wahroonga, on Christmas Day. In which ten persons were…

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Melbourne's Official Motor 'Buses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 5

Showing the type of motor 'bus that has been adopted by the Melbourne Tramways Board for public service…

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Motor-driver Charged Conflicting Evidence

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 10

Unusually dissimilar stories were told at the Central Police Court yesterday when Clive Edwards, an auctioneer, was charged with having…

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Motor Train

The Land · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 9

The Railway Commissioners have decided to establish a daily motor train service between Yanco, Leeton, and Griffith in the place of the…

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Main Roads Chairman

The Land · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 12

Mr. John Garlick, Under-Secretary to the Local Government Department, has been appointed chairman of the Main Roads Board…

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Main Roads Board

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 3

The Premier announced this week that Mr. J. Garlick, Under-Secretary for Local Government, and who has been a resident of Doll's Point, Sandringham,…

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Bridge. Silence Is Golden

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6

ALTHOUGH many pames of bridge are lost through under-bidding, a greater number of calamities occur through inability to say "No."…

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Preparing for the Bridge

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6

Mr. P. A. Fildes, M.I. Mech. E., Chief Inspector under the Scaffolding and Lifts Act, yesterday discussed with Messrs. Martin, Muir, and Ferguson,…

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Auburn Fell Off Train

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 3

Joseph Lawes (21), a cordial maker, fell off a train at Auburn, on January 2, and his forehead was cut and bruised. He was treated at St. Joseph's Hospital…

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Main Roads. Mr. Carlick, Chairman

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 29

Mr. John Garlick, Under-Secretary to the Local Government Department, has been appointed chairman of the Main Roads Board…

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Main Roads Board Request to Minister

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6

Two members of the Local Government Engineers' Association, Messrs. F. V. Wikner (president) and A. L. Horniman (secretary), waited on the…

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Main Roads Board. The Chairman appointed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 7

The Under-Secretary to the N.S/W. LOcal Government (Mr.John Garlick) has been appointed chairman of the Main Roads Board at…

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Roads Board Engineers' Plea State Preference

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 1

Mr. F. V. Wikner, president of the Local Government Engineer's Association and Mr. A. L. Horniman, secretary, to-day urged on the…

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Grand Prix Road Race

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11

Conditions of the great road race of the year for motor cars, the Grand Prix, have now been issu[?] and considerable argument has been canned amo[?] the racing motorists and their supporters by [?]…

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Motors and Motoring Motor cars and Tractors for the work on the farm, Haulage on thwe Road "Running into town" or on Pleasure Jaunts. the Motor Age a Trip to Newcastle Dangerous Roads

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 12

At the beginning of last week, at 8'a.m.; a little party of four of us on pleasure bent, act out o one of the latest English 11.9-h.p Star cars…

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Shires' Powers re Fires on Roads, etc

The Land · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

J.H.H. writes:—Living in a pastoral arid agricultural district the danger of fires is great, and the way many people make camp fires on…

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"They're Damnable" Government-made Roads Lidcombe Kicks

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

Will the roads laid down by the Government Constraction Branch, owing to the diversion caused by the new Lidcombe-Cabramatta Railway, prove to be…

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