Sydney Harbor Bridge
The Australian Worker · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 17
The gigantic creeper crane on Sydney Harbor Bridge moves, out for the first time. It is the largest and most powerful crane ever in use in Australia. It is now in position to lift the first span of the mighty central arch of the bridge. A.W.U. members have played their part in the construction of this gigantic national undertaking…
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Sydney Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 48
MOTORISTS and others in the Hornsby district have expressed impatience at the delay in effecting badly-needed repairs to the road between Hornsby and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 16
Members of a specially conducted tour, under the auspices of the New South Wales and Victorian Government Tourist Bureaux, yesterday morning in[?]pected the Sydney…
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The Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 12
Henry Farry, aged 61, of Frederick- street, Ashfield, died at the Auburn District Hospital at 5.15 a.m. to-day, as a result of injuries received last…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 18
Henry Farry, of Frederick-street, Ashfield, was frightfully injured at the Clyde railway station shortly before 8 o'clock last night. when he was run down by a train…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 18
Officials of the Jemalong Shire are apprehensive for the safety of Fitzgerald's bridge, which spans the Lachlan River near Forbes. At the last meeting of the shire the engineer…
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The Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 3
"A heavily-loaded vehicle will go through Fitzgerald's Bridge at any time. I consider it most dangerous." This statement was made by the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4
The world's biggest aeroplane is being completed at the Caproni works, here for the Italian army. It weighs 15 tons, and is designed to carry a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Maroubra Road Across Beach Front
Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4
MARINE PARADE, Maroubra, is to be extended right across the beach frontage and linked up with Fitzgerald Avenue, which will be constructed to…
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Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 12
STRATHFIELD Council decided last night to concur with the Main Roads Board's decision to proclaim as a main road, from the northern suburbs to the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Car Smashed by Train Driver Jumped Clear at Gates
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Thomas Froome, of Guyra, had a narrow escape when his car crashed through a level crossing gate and was smashed…
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Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 17
Through desert and jungle, Mr. G. S. Bouwer, a South African racing motorist, has travelled an average of 250 miles a day for 9000 miles on…
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The Australian Worker · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 7
A QUESTION seriously engaging the attention of the different Governments in Australia to-day is that of transport, and the "part which the railways and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 18
At the annual meeting of the Picton branch of the Railway and Tramway Institute, the following officials were elected:—President Mr. R. Gyde; vice-presidents, Messrs. R…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Both Legs Cut Off by Train Amazing Pluck of Old Man
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 5
Run over by a train, which cut off both his legs, last night, Henry Farray (61), of Frederick Street, Ashfield, showed amazing pluck…
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The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 1
FALLING under a moving train at Clyde shortly before 8 o'clock last night. Henry Farry, a middle aged man. of Frederick Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Hurt When 'Bus Left Road Twenty Others Had Lucky Escape
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 3
ALBURY, Monday.--Four men were taken to hospital, and 20 others escaped injury when a motor 'bus on the way to Hume Reservoir overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Graceful Kings of the Road All Types Help to Make Wonderful Display
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 10
When nobody Was looking an artist got into the Motor Show. He used his brush lavishiy, and made it a fairyland of color…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Circular Quay Railway "Procrastination is the Thief of Time'
Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 15
The time for the completion of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is pressing on and every week brings forth further evidence that the contractors, Dorman Long and Co. Ltd., have the…
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Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 10
THE motor ship Zingara, which left Hokitiks early to-day, broke a chain controlling the steering gear when she was on the bar, and was washed ashore…
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