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Railways, roads & transport, 1932

10,046 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

N.s. and Bridge Local Effort Ball Proposal

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 8

The North Sydney committee of the Harbor Bridge opening ceremony has decided upon going ahead at full speed with local arrangements…

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Bridge Celebrations. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 4

Sir,—The Lord Mayor, as president of the Harbour Bridge Celebrations Committee, has stated very plainly the financial position. This must have given a good many of us a sharp…

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Bridge and Badge. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 4

Sir,—In to-day issue of the "Herald" a correspondent suggests that all people who are paying the bridge rate should receive some sort of a badge which would enable them to…

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New Bridge Campaign Urgent Need Of Cash For Opening Celebrations

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

A new campaign for funds to cover the cost of the Harbor Bridge celebrations will be launched by the committee in a few days. OF the £10.000 asked for last…

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Pushing On For Cohar Bus Train Almost at Goal Many Fires Still Raging Help Needed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

DUBBO, Sunday.--Spirits rising as each mile brings them nearer to the fight with the western fires,…

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Struck Post Motor Cyclist and Passenger Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Milton Hicks, son of Mr. Joe Hicks, Western-road, Prospect, was seriously injured on Saturday evening when the motor cycle he was riding skidded and crashed…

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Too Much Liquor Motorist in Trouble

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Herbert Edwin Butler, at the Liverpool Police Court last Friday, pleaded guilty to a Charge of having driven a motor ear while under the influence of…

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PROTECTION Motor Transport in Australia

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 6

It it a matter of common klnowledge that it most well developed countries of the world in which railway and tramway systoms have long been in use, the…

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Tossed Into Air Two Victims of Motor Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Struck by a motor-cycle as he was walking between two companions in Dunmore-street, Wentworthville, on Friday night, John Cotter, 24, skinner, of Lindsay-street,…

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Border Motor Traffic. Transport Act Inconveniences. ALBURY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 8

In regard to the proposal to test, in the interests of Victorian tourists, the right of New South Wales to exercise certain powers over interstate motorists under the Transport…

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Motor Accidents. Naval Man Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 10

Alexander Donaldson Roberts, 21, a naval rating on the books of H.M.A.S. Australia, is in Lewisham Hospital in a critical condition, having been injured in a collision between his…

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Motorship Arrives From Russia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 12

The Norwegian freighter Eli, which reached Sydney on Saturday from Odessa. Officers brought interesting stories of Soviet conditions…

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Motor Record. Norman Smith's Attempt. How Speeds Have Increased

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

The history of the world's land speed record, which Norman Smith will attack in New Zealand this month, extends over 34 years, during which it has increased from 39.24 miles an…

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Tram Leaves Rails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 9

Passengers in a city-bound tram from Vaucluse received a bad shock yesterday morning, when it left the rails at the corner of Hopetoun-avenue and New South Head-road,…

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Pot Luck! Tramps Boiled Billy Over Gold Hoard

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

TO discover--too late--that they had boiled their billy over a small fortune of gold, was the heartbreaking experience of two sundowners in the Queensland bush, who unwittingly camped over the spot where a gold thief had…

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On Line Women Stop Trams N.Z. Food Riot

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. An attempt to run trams through the crowd in the Duneedin streets during the food riot…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Hurt in Crash

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 1

Alexander Hendry, 24, of Fitzroy Street, Marrickville, suffered a probable fracture to the skull, incised wound to the forehead, and…

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Tram Bolts at Rose Bay Down Incline Into Gutter Missed Electric Pole

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

PASSENGERS and crew, of a city bound tram had a narrow escape from injury when the vehicle left the lines and rushed down an incline…

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Three People & Baby Hurt Motor Cycles Collide

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

Three people and a seven-months-old baby were injured when two motor cycles, one with a sidecar, collided on the corner of Malakoff Street…

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Aeroplane Damaged. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 4

A Moth 'plane owned by the Queensland Aero Club, and licensed to carry passengers, crashed at the Dalby aerodrome. The machine was in charge of Pilot Robert Cyril…

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