Posed As Sergeant Then Stole Motor Car Accessories
STANLEY Herbert Kirk, 22, was fined £10 by Mr. Williams. S.M. at Kogarah Court for having assumed the designation of a police sergeant at…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
8,292 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250
Bondi Tram Block Steam Roller On Line Car Hits Man
THE Bondi train service was disorganised shortly after 9 a.m. to-day, when a steam roller broke down, blocking both lines broke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Tour
Mrs. G. Bruce-Smith, accompanied by her daughter Nancy, and Miss Merle Holmes, of Rose Bay, will leave by car for Melbourne on Friday. Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Cycle Gossip Vic. v. South Aust
CHIEF attraction at the Exhibition Speedway (Melb.) next Saturday will be an interstate teams, race between Victoria and South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Australian 2-Lap Championship Hastings Win at the Motordrome
ABOUT a, short and morry Australasian championship of two laps, at the Motordrome (Melb.):—The fight between Duckett, Bryant…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →N.S.W. Railway Commissioners. May be Rationed
A proclamation was issued at Sydney last Wednesday night extending the provisions of Sec. 8 of the Industrial Arbitration Act to the Railway Commissioners of…
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FIVE men in the employ of the Government were unpleasantly surprised on Friday to find their pay had been reduced. They were the drivers employed…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Railway Rationing
A RISING out of a decision of the State Cabinet that there would be no interference with the Railway Commissioners in connection with the system of rationing…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"Work-or-starve" Fight. Thousand Dockers Trample on Mates
Twelve dockers were injured in a "worker-starve, scramble by nearly 1000 men at the West India Dock, Limehouse (London), on December. One was trampled…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Confessions of a Motoring Prospector
Economy, the possibility of profit, and complete seclusion from such worries as newspapers and political wrangles were the motives which prompted our party to make the Christmas vacation a combined motoring and prospecting trip. That the profit has still to be won, and that a radio set ill-advisedly included in the baggage of one member of the clan quite destroyed the illusion of remoteness from depression and worldly strife, are but small matters when weighed against the enjoyment and general recuperation of health and spirits which were…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Motoring Notes Motor Vehicles Registrations in N.S.W. Falling-off During 1930
THE N.R.M.A. announces that the registrations of motor vehicles in force in New South Wales on December 31 last totalled 239,025, as against 249,560 at the…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →English Railways and Radio Its Development and Success
As long ago as May 27, 1924, the Radio Society of Great Britain, in co-operation with the L.N.E.R., carried put a series of wireless tests to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorship Aground. Bound for Australia. New York, Jan. 20
The motorship Yomachichi, which left New York on January 14 for Australia with a crew of 35, is reported to be aground with her engine completely disabled off Cape Mays[?],…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →RATIONING. Railway Men's Complaint
About 400 employees of the car repair section of the Chullora workshops carried a resolution at a stopwork meeting yesterday protesting against rationing and the 1/ in the £…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Charges of Fraud. on Railway Department
Four persons were brought before the Central Police Court yesterday charged with frauds on the Railway Department. Albert Wiggins, 28, salesman, was put…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Bus Taxation
In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet at the annual meeting of the White Transit Co., Ltd., yesterday, the chairman of directors (Mr. C. H. Hicks) expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor Boating. Anniversary Regatta
Entries for the motor boat section of the An[?] v[?]ry Regatta programme next Monday were [?] numerous than at any previous fixture. Altogehter 56 nominations have been dealt with by the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Head Crushed by Motor Lorry Boy Fatally Injured
William Doe, 12, of Souter Street, Kogarah was fatally injured when a motor lorry ran him down in Prince's Highway, Blackhurst yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dangerous Bridge
The N.R.M.A. has been informed by the Main Rounds Board that special warning are to be erected on either side of the overhead railway bridge on the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Road Money How Shall It Be Spent? Main And Minor Roads
The councils throughout the State have been circularised recently by the Shires Association, Sydney, in an apparent effort to gather support for a claim for the…
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