Main Roads Board Last Year's Expenditure
Since its inception in 1924, the Main Roads Board has spent £7,599,537 in the construction of 102 miles of road in the County of Cumberland, and 1354…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250
Auction Bridge Rescuing Partner Rare Occurrences
Beginners seem to find as much difficulty in the corollaries to the simple principles of auction bidding and play as the unmathematical school boy finds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Industry. Recent Progress. Good Roads in Other Lands
Mr. J. Symonds, general manager of the Commonwealth Cement Co., who returned to Sydney yestorday by the Aorangi after several months abroad, said that great…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Foot Cut Off Fell Under Train Tweed Heads [?]
ATTEMPTING to [?] the wheels and [?] his right leg [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bayswater Road Work Will Soon Be Finished
Complaints that are [?] of Bayswater-road in concrete has been in hand on [?] long time are denied by the Civic Commissioners. The work is going ahead and for the job of its [?] will be finished in good time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Foot Cut Off by Moving Train Tweed Heads
Trying to board a moving train at m Coolangatta railway station this afternoon. Clifford Doyle. 40. of Dungay, Murwlllumbah. slipped between the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brand New Big Train Depot Immense Sheds Home for 400 Electrics
Trains, like humans, need shelters where they can be housed, rested, washed and generally attended to and kept fit for their strenuous work. So…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Radio on the Motor Bus
The first radio-equipped coach in Australia now runs between Sydney and Goulburn. The receiver is a five valve, the aerial being hidden in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Skidding Motor Cycles
About 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday two men on motor bikes returning from Penrith Speedway, skidded and capsized opposite Brell's Tannery. The rider of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor World N.R.M.A. NOTES
Motorist in Florida last year paid an average of £5/10/- a head in petrol taxes, the highest figure of any State the tax being five cents (2½d.) a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifty Years' Service. Queensland's Railway Engineer. Brisbane
A long period of valuable service has been rendered the Raliway Department by the Chief engineer, Mr. R. E. Sexton, who, on Wednesday, completed 60 years service. He…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motoring. Fixtures To-day
After the rush of the past fortnight there is a lull in motoring fixtures in Sydney, and apparently only two of the motor boat clubs will decide races this alternoon. The St. George Motor float Club announces its…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Noisy Motor Cycles. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Several correspondents have lately drawn attention to the intolerable nuisance of the noisy motor cycle, which has been so roundly condemned on all sides, and shows…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Motors in Collision. Macksville
Two motor cars and a motor lorry collide, to-day at a sharp bend In the Nambucca Heads-road. Francis-Joseph Jenkins, a Main Roads Board contractor, who was occupying…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Railways. Drastic Changes. Ministry's Policy
Drastic changes are contemplated by the Government early in the New Year In regard to the administrative control of the railways and the tramways…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Girl Attacked. While on Motor Trip. Arrest of Suspect. Newcastle
Investigations by Newcastle police into statements that a vicious attempt had been made to assault a 20-years-old girl in the bush near Swansea on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Obsolete North Aust. Railway Antique Engines
For the first time since the Commonwealth took it over, the North Australian. railway earned in 1927-28 more than its working expenses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Building Collapsed Motorist's Close Shave
A large brick building at Mortdale, which had been completed save for the roof, collapsed during the storm, and a motorist had a remarkable escape…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Expelled A.w.u. Railway Workers Appeal to Convention
Asked to-day if it was correct that certain members of the Railway Workers' Industry Branch of the A.W.U. had been expelled, the secretary (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Killed in Motor Smash Eleven Injured Parbamatta-rd. Collision
A woman was killed when two motor cars collided in Parramatta-road, Flemington late this afternoon…
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