For Bridge Week Primrose Park Camp
The N.R.M.A. has completed arrangements with the North Sydney Council, through the Mayor (Ald. H. L. Primrose), for the use of Primrose Park,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
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Girls Arrested in Train. Goulburn
Two girls, who were wearing long trousers and sweaters, appeared in the police court to-day, charged with having travelled in a railway carriage from Moss Vale to Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Brisbane Bridge. Private Franchise Granted. BRISBANE
By an Order-in-Council which was made to-day, authority has been given to Messrs. W. J. Reinhold, consulting engineer, of Brisbane, and E. G. Wagner, consulting engineer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bridge Opening Mountain Representation Councils in Conference
Blue Mountains Shire and Katoomba councils are conferring with a view of having the Mountains adequately represented in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chatswood To Be Gay In Bridge Week
A combined committee of citizens and members of the Chatswood Chamber of Commerce is organising local celebrations to coincide with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coupling Held How Train Disaster Was Averted
AN irregular movement of the points is believed to have been the cause of last night's derailment of an electric train at Strathfield. Whether the irregularity was due to mechanical or electrical failure or human error has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jumped Clear Train Leaves Rails And Topples
An engine which was taking a string of empty cars from Central station to the washing sheds at Macdonaldtown broke through the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Corroboree & Hold-U Pageant Plans For Bridge Opening
THE fertile brain of Mr. D. R. Hall --chairman of the historic pageant to be presented in the grounds of Vaucluse House on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Talk of SYDNEY Watching the Bridge Grow
WHAT office in Sydney has the best day-by-day view of the Harbor Bridge? Possibly there are quite a batch of claimants for this honor. Few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Fares Let's Hope They Are Not on New York Scale
If traffic rates for the Harbor Bridge were to be fixed on the same basis as those for the four great New York spans, the lowest vehicular…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ferry Nearly Run Down Boats Mixed Up Near Bridge Cool Skipper
Passengers on the ferry steamer Kulgoa were panic-stricken yesterday when the vessel nearly collided with the big motor-ship…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carriage Leaves Rails. Dragged Between Divided Train. Thrilling Accident at Strathfield
One of the most remarkable railway accidents in the history of the State occurred at Strathfield yesterday evening, when, through fouling the points, an electric train divided into two sections and the carriage which linked them was dragged 150 yards along the permanent way. Only one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Do Not Covet Glory Bridge Workers Prefer Their Names on Pay Envelopes
The men who built the Bridge--keen-eyed, big-muscled artisans and laborers, and the men who are making the approaches --what are they thinking while argument rages as to whose name should go on the honor tablets?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road to Revival Trade Circles Are Elated Effect of Tariff
Trade circles in Sydney yesterday were elated over "The Daily Telegraph's" cable from London,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Smash But No Bad Injuries Electric Train Off the Rails at Strathfield Driver's Save Police Amazed When
Ploughing along the permanent way at Strathfield last night one carriage of an electric train had its front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vogue of Bridge Week Guest Contest Grows Humor, Wistfulness and Pathos Creep Into Frock Choosing Letters This Week's Prize Goes to Miss D. Blewitt, of Canberra
AGAIN -- and for the third time of asking -- our countrywomen readers, in every town and hamlet in New South Wales, have propped up the fashion page of "Smith's Weekly" before them at their writing desks and studied to the last detail the four frocks' submitted for their…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Clutching Hand on the Stock Routes Penalising the Graziers Government Uses Land Seekers as a Screen for a Ruinous Scheme Bolstering-up the Railways
THE proposal of the Minister for Lands (Mr. Tully) to alienate travelling stock routes and camping reserves alongside existing railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.S.W. News in Brief Motor Fatality
Muriel Helen Fishwick (17), of Roseville, was killed when a motor car in which she was a passenger overturned near Kiama at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transport Agt Stock Routes to be Closed to Force Graziers to Use the Railways Hardships Inflicted on the Community
Another disturbing feature of the iniquitous Transport (Co-ordination) Act has been revealed by the decision of the Government to attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motors and Motoring Thrills and SPILLS Motor Cycling Excitement at Wentworth Speedway
Most of the races at Wentworth Park speedway, Sydney, on Saturday night had close finishes and excitement reached a high pitch. The well-known racer, F…
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