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On Monday morning an aeroplane, piloted by Robert Somerville who was accompanied by L. Milgate, mechanic, made a forced landing in the paddock of Mr. Alfred C. Smith, a well-known farmer, of Coinwallis, near Windsor, who was chipping weeds in the field, and was struck by the machine, being killed instantly. The plane burst into flames, and was soon destroyed. Somerville (who was…
Continued on Trove, page 56 →MOSMAN Council decided last night [?] of the harbor to join to a request to the [?] to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Characterising it as "an iniquitous return to mediaevallsm," Mr. W. A. Smith, of Miranda, protests, in a letter to the Editor, against the proposed toil on the George's…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →By proclaiming Punchbow.-road a main road, the Main Roads Board has created a highway for Ryde through Strathfield, Burwood, and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A frightful aeroplane fatality occurred at Cornwallis, near Windsor (N.S.W.), on Monday morning. A Moth machine, carrying Pilot-Sergeant Robert Somerville and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sir,—Dr. Bradfield's statement, published in to-day's "Herald," that trams will not cross the harbour bridge, leaves many North Shore residents with serious misgivings. There is a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE M[?] for Works and Railway, [?] Buttenshaw, said to-day that [?] with the Premier, Mr [?] regard to the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Why should we have to pay for this [?] Did the people of Strathfield, the [?]tocracy, pay for their bridge?" asked Ald. Baldock at Cranville Council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At last, after many months of preliminary work, the massive structure that is to span Sydney Harbour from Dawes Point to Milson's Point is beginning to look like a bridge. Last week several huge steel members were placed in position, and at the time our photograph was taken half of the first southern panel was complete. The photograph actually shows the end post, the first section of the lower chord, and the first diagonal in position, forming a triangle. Each panel of the arch will consist of two of these triangles, to which the diagonal will be common. The length of each panel will be 58ft 11 in, and it will take 28 of them to form the complete arch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Piloted by Lieut. Gardner, the Victorian Aero Club instructor, a new "Moth" 'plane, built to the order of Sun Newspapers Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE principal thoroughfares of Sydney are, as is well known, also rights of way for what is really an electric railway system, in the form of trams. The longer that system operates in Sydney the more it stands in contradistinction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The George's River bridge at Tom Ugly's Point is rapidly nearing completion, and it is hoped that traffic will be passing over it by Easter…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The huge pall of smoke rose hundreds of feet and was visible many miles away. The firefighters had an anxious time…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →WHAT will be by far the largest suspension bridge in the world, a £15,000,000 structure, spanning the Hudson River between Fort Washington, in New York, and Fort Lee,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fran[?] Bettinger, the German who was shot in a train near Strawberry, on the Midland railway, on Friday night, died in hospital this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A comedy of misunderstanding between a motorist who was chased on suspicion of being a car thief by men who be though intended to rob him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The report ivy the Railway Commissioners against the suddeasted construction of a railway line between Liverpool and Mulgon is pointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →So appallingly bad has the surface of the roadway approaching Rosevllie bridge from the Sydney Hide become that a number of motorist have in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The announcement Unit the toll on motor-cars passing over the new George's River bridge, after its opening. probably at Easter will not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia's first motoring Grand Prix, a road race of 200 miles, will be held on the course at Phillip Island, Victoria, on Monday, March 18. The Victorian Light Car Club will be in control, and have finalised the conditions governing the race. The course is over 6½ miles of winding, billy…
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