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Railways, roads & transport, 1934

9,505 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

JUDGMENT Best Results From Bridge Bids Long Suits

The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

THERE must be intelligent bidding in bridge if the best results from the cards are to be obtained…

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Ambush After Wreck Siberian Rescue Train Harbin

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 1

After the uninjured passengers from the Trans-Siberian Express, which was wrecked on Wednesday, had been…

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Danger Spot Light Standard On Ryde-road

The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 7

It has been reported to the N.R.M.A. Touring Department that a temporary danger spot exists on Ryde-road, between Pymble and de…

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Bus Men Would Mend Road Company Asked for Material

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Friday.--So bad are some stretches of the Maitland-Cessnock-Wollombi road that a bus company using it asked for material to…

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Railway and Tramway Men To Serve Counter Log Emphatic Protest Carried Fight For 30-Hours Week and Higher Mass Meeting

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

THE whole of the Railway and Tramway Unions affected by the new log of claims that has been served individually on…

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The Highway to Success Fruition of a Scheme Years Old Road to Rich Queensland Territory Sugar as a Magnet

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 7

Prince's Highway! Pacific Highway! And now Cook Highway ... There is a touch of picturesqueness about the name bestowed on the first section of what is hoped to be eventually an all-Australia tourist road from Melbourne to Mossman…

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Metro Motor Works

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

Mr W. H. Andrews, successor to Mr F. Schwarz at Met[?] Motor Works and Garage, corner of High and Station Streets, is continuing the…

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Retired Railway Men Annual Social and Re-union Big Gathering at Masonic Hall

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 6

That the function held annually in honour of retired railway men by the Penrith branch of the Railway and Tramway Institute is proving more…

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Plight of the British Tramp Owner

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

Tramp shipping is having a terrible time. Only those engaged in it can feel the daily pressure of its distress and can realise how near we are to a…

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Motor Car Overturns. Brewarrina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 16

Mr. G. Cork, of Cork Bros., met with an accident late last night, when the motor car in which he was proceeding from Brewarrina to Middleton Station, where shearing is in…

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Motor Cycling. Speedway Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 18

A diversified programme is promised at the Speedway Royal to-night when the dirt track motor cycle season will be continued Several match races between visiting Englishmen and…

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Dorset and Durham. New Motor Freighters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 9

The two new Federal S.N. Company's motor freighters for the Australian trade should make their malden voyages to Australia towards the end of the year. They will be…

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EXPLOSION Wrecks Railway Station. Safebreakers' Mistake. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 15

A violent explosion caused by safebrcakers wrecked the office of the Mount Russell railway station early this morning and a file, which followed, burnt the station building to…

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Railway Official Dies

The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

After five months' illness. Mr. James Bede Dwyer, formerly station-master at Granville, for four years, died at his home in Frederick-street,…

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Dishonest Passengers How Tramwaymen Are Victimised Case for the Union

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 9

THIS is from a tram-man:-- It is indeed an epoch making event, in tramway union history when a great paper sets out to show up a grave injustice. The thanks of every tram conductor is due to…

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Motoring Fred Berry Go Slow! Young Driver

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 14

No surer indication of the general return to normal economic conditions can be given than figures supplied by the various States in respect of registration of automobiles, and the fact that, during last month the total closely approached that of the boom period, some four years ago, should cause every Australian motorist to face the present year with confidence and optimism…

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Policeman Who Wanted More Work To Do! Making It Harder for the Criminal New System Of Motor Patrols Idle Police Stations Closed Down

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 10

CHANGING conditions and fast motor transport have made the criminal a problem to be tackled only with up-to-date methods. Slow-moving foot and mounted police are at a definite disadvantage; consequently the N.S.W. Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) has been…

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Special Race Trams

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

The Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways advises that in connection with Randwick races to-day, special services of trams will…

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When Yachtsman Plans a Comeback Motor Boat Doings New Members

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 2

WHEN during a Christmas cruise on the Miramar Mr. w. J. Dettman passed his former possession, Bona, he determined there and then…

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"Iniquitous," Says Secretary Union to Fight New Railways Log

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 9

"We will fight the issue in the courts, and if necessary will carry the battle into the transport industry itself," said Mr. J. F. Chappie,…

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