Premier Lang and the Railway Commissioners
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4
The Railway Commissioners of New South Wales, and the rest of the States, were appointed to take the management of the Railway Departments out of the hands of the politicians. Political management of public utilities, all over the world, has proved such a failure that…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 9
The State Railway Commissioners have decided to dismiss from the railway service Mr. C. J. Goode, Goulburn Area Commissioner. This action has been taken as the result of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motoring Mechanical Transport. Relation to Oversea Trade
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 5
Mr. G. M. Gillett, Parliamentary secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade in England, has written an appreciative article on the importance of mechanical transport in…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 6
The tramway rationing case, which was to have been heard in the Federal Arbitration Court yesterday, was postponed owing to Judge Beeby having been recalled to,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 9
Mr. Frederick Williamson, 40, was killed in a motor accident near here this evening. He was a member of a party that set out at 6 p.m. for a run in a motor lorry, driven by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Blow for Motor Transport Goode's Hand New Act's Provisions
The Sun · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 15
Drastic measures to protect railway and tramway revenue are provided in the Transport Bill which the Premier has just sent…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor Boats at High Speeds Walder Cup Race at St. George Regatta
The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 3
REGATTA day of the St. George Power Boat Club at Kogarah Bay next Saturday will be one of the biggest motor boating galas of the…
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The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 6
YESTERDAY, the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners dismissed from the service, Mr. C. J. Goode, Southern Area Commissioner, following a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Man in the Street Why Trams Don't Pay
Daily Pictorial · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 6
One of your correspondents, I think Marie Fox, J.P., recently referred to the number of inspectors and ticket examiners encountered on a tram…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country News Motor Mechanic Killed in Car Crash
Daily Pictorial · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 14
KYOGLE, Wednesday.--Thomas Fitzgerald (21), motor mechanic, was killed when a car skidded and overturned on the Wiangaree Road…
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The Biz · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 6
Mr. William "A. Jacques, of Parkroad, Cabramatta, suggested in a letter to Cabra-Vale Council or Monday night, that council adopt…
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Evening News · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 7
R. C. H. Darlinghurst: (1) I should say that in Sydney majority bidding is distinctly more customary than values bidding. It is matter for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hospital Bridge Party
Evening News · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 7
Mrs. M. Lake is president of the hospital committee of the Council of Jewish Women, which arranged a patty at David Jones yesterday at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRIDGE Singletons (2)
Evening News · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 7
Reverting again to the subject last week of singleton leads, it may be said that the bidding may often be an indication of a good lead…
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Daily Pictorial · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 3
NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- Flood waters on the far North Coast have severed railway communications between Sydney and Brisbane via the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State of the Roads
The Sun · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 7
The N.R.M.A. advises that the North Coast Highway from Sydney to Grafton is in good condition, but as Lismore is flooded it is not…
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The Biz · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5
A discussion took place at Liverpool Council with reference to the closing of the road from Goulburn-st. to Cabramatta…
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The Labor Daily · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 9
Emma Purcell, 50 of Bastable St. Croydon, alighted from a moving train at Central Railway Station yesterday, and fell heavily to the platform…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 14
Attached to the decking of the bridge, from below, the new gantry is now in use on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It will facilitate the work of the painters, who will be permanently employed…
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The Labor Daily · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5
A report received yesterday morning by the N.R.M.A. Touring Department states that owing to the very heavy rain throughout the far north coastal districts…
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