Bridge and Mah-jongg
That people never seem to tire of bridge and Mah-Jongs is proved by the number of card afternoons arranged each week, in aid of various charities,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1926
15,962 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250
Man on Railway Line Epileptic Patient Rescued As Train Dashed by
A case in the Burwood Police Court came to an abrupt termination through a man taking a violent fit. Alfred Mooney was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dragged Off Railway Line Escape From Train Took Fit in Court
HOW a constable picked up a man from the railway line at Strathfield just before a train rushed through was told at Burwood…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Built His Own Good Road
A week-ender at Church Point laid down these two strips of concrete from the main read to his cottage in order to afford easy access for his car…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Main Roads. Federal Grant. Basis of Distribution Challenged
At a meeting of the executive of the Shires Association of New South Wales yesterday the president (Councillor H. J. Bate) submitted a special report…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Like the Roads of Flanders Ordeal for Diggers
That Diggers in their "little bits of conveyances," driving home to the soldiers' village along the southern section of Anzao Parade…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Road Transport Union. Three Organisations Amalgamate
Proposals for the formation bt the Amalgamated Road Transport Workers' Union of Australia were finalised at a conference between the Federated Carters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constructional Harbor Bridge Suit.—Dr. Bradfield's Ability Unchallenged
According to Mr. Ball, ex-Minister for Works and Railways, a further tribute is paid to Dr.Bradfield's efficiency in the papers connected with the law suit threatened by Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.s.w. Wants More Main Roads Grant Position Warrants It
Now that the Commonwealth Government has decided to provide £20,000,000 for expenditure on main roads, at the rate of £[?],000,000 a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£20,000,000 for Roads Where Does N.S.W. Come In? Shires Claim a Voice
The Federal Government proposes to spend £2,000,000 a year for ten years on roads, but it apparently does not intend to allot the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Loss of £1755 on Rosebery Tram Waterloo Startled
A BOMBSHELL dropped in the midst of Waterloo aldermen last night. It was in the form of a letter from a local firm, forwarding…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tramway Links Randwick Seeks Them
Randwick Council was advised last night that the Public Works Committes would hold an inquiry next week regarding the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motoring the Grand Prix Conaulty and Records
Anniversary Pay It to ba celebrated In a "true blue" British way by the management of the Maroubra Speedway. The directors have selected January 25 for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Show Accessory Side
Many interested in cars and trucks have expressed the wish that they could spend an hour or two examining all the accessory stocks of some of the big houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£900 Motor Car Two Men for Trial
Cyril Browning 26, agent, and Roy Fenton, 19, [?] were committed for trial from the Central Court to-day on a charge of having stolen a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Cyclists' Grand Prix at Maroubra Big Motor Show in Sydney Speed Boat Racing: Northern District Sport
Motor cyclists will have Maroubra to themselves on Anniversary Day, when the Australian Grand Prix, which has attracted fine entries, will…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Underground Railway Workers. Reduced Hours Wanted
The underground workers of the Sydney City Railway made representations to the N.S.W. Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Baddeley) last Wednesday that their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricket Motor Show Tennis
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motoring Sydney's International Motor Show
It is five years since New South Wales has seen a motor show, and the onlooker who on Saturday last journeyed out to the Royal Agricultural Showground might well have thought that those responsible for the present exhibition had merely been holding their hands all these years in order to stage a "monster production." OF course, it is now common knowledge that…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Petrol for the Country How the installation of bulk handling has brought down the price of motor spirit in the country to par with that of the city, due to the British Imperial Oil Company's all-British system of country depots
OIL RULES! Oil is almost the be-all and end-all of transport. Oil is carrying comfort to the man in the country, pleasure to the man in the city, and providing the means…
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