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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
8,292 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250
CONFLICTING evidence was tendered at an inquest held by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) into the death of a woman who was killed at the Toongabbie level crossing on November 22 last…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Felled by a 32 calibre bullet in Station Lane, Newtown, last, night, Norman Mulhearn (32), Phillip Street. St. Peters,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Vice-Commodore's Ball, which will he held at the Royal Motor Yacht Club House, Wunulla-road, Rose Bay, on Saturday, January 17. promises to be one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"I AM satisfied that this man's act was unwarranted and unreasonable. He fairly lost his temper because someone came on to the punt without headlights.... "I THINK the evidence for the prosecution is overwhelming. What's more I think that this man is unfit to be in charge of the ferry!"…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Holiday touring, high speed, and the hot weather have taken a heavy toll of the tyre treads of most cars. All around the city, cars with badly-worn tyres are noticeable; evidence of the hundreds of miles covered by drivers who took advantage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →It was pointed out at the last meeting of the Holroyd Council that although a council may not collect the rate of /0½ in the £ for the Main Roads Board it has to remit…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →DIVING into 4 feet of water from the Narrabeen Bridge yesterday, Charles Pavne (21), Darghan Street, Glebe, received concussion and a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A man and his young son had a very narrow escape from death on the main Northern-road near the Hawkesbury River on Saturday, when a train crashed Into their motor lorry. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →IN the darkness of the carly hours of this morning an express train from Shimonoski to Tokyo was derailed while crossing the bridge at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A woman believed to be Mary Shephered, 60, of Ebley Street. Waverley, was killed outright when she was knocked down by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two brothers, Colin and Leslie Smith, of Lansdowne-street, Merrylands, were critically injured when their cycle and a bus collided in Parramatta-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →STRUCK by one tram u he stepped from another. In George-st West, near Mountain-st, city, this afternoon, a man, who is believed to be C. T…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE N.R.M.A. amount [?] revenue collected under the [?] Motor Traffic Act during [?]£1,745,760, as against £1968…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DRUCE LANE 19, laborer, was sentenced at North Sydney Court to-day to six months' gaol on each of ten charges of having taken and used…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hedley Travis Michell, 22, motor mechanic, died from injuries when he was thrown from the motor cycle he was riding on the Armidale-road at Coutt's Crossing this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →David Battle, 11, died from injuries he received when he was crushed between the buffers of a railway truck and the dead-end post of a line at Mount Morgan yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Dick" Case the Queensland international, who rode prominently in England last scoson and as a member of the representative Australian test team competed for the first Hine at the Wentworth…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,— I have read with much interest the letters from "Practical Observer" which have recently appeared in your columns under the above heading. Your correspondent seems…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—The suggestion by your correspondent "Deregistered" that a petrol tax should replace the present weight tax on motor vehicles in order that motorists might be obliged to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the motor boat section which was controlled by officials of the Royal Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales, using the palatial Miramar, Mr. Stuart Doyle's big motor yacht, as their headquarters,…
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