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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
10,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250
A watering-place on Brunette Downs. There are similar bores every 25 miles across the tableland. Two men in a motor lorry patrol these regularly. The water generally is good, although it becomes slightly brackish towards the end of the dry season…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →S. G. Stenner and B. Shiels, members of the N.S.W. team in the Australian track and field games, training in Hobart…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—Being one of the few Australians who have keenly studied modern traffic regulations and systems in the United States of America, and having driven over forty…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ANOTHER name was added to the death-roll in motor mishaps last night, when John Thomas Hough, 81, of Mary Street, City, died in Sydney Hospital. Although only 14 days have elapsed in the present year, 16 lives are reported to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Slight damage was done to the nurses' quarters at the Ayr District Hospital, when the building was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm, which was accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A maniac recently stole a train near Baltimore (U.S.A.), drove it at full speed down the main line, crashed into a shed, and, after a series of terrific fights, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IF trade statistics afford any reliable guide to the prosperity of a State the motor figures for Queensland must indicate that the days of depression have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Buy a car in San Francisco and motor across the United States, is the advice of Mrs. S. W. Peterson to those who wish to see America thoroughly. Mrs. Peterson, with her husband, is on the way home to Wellington, New Zealand. MR. and Mrs. Peterson were able to…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Werri Beach, which lies just north of Seven-Mile Beach, near Gerringong, is one of the many delightful tourist resorts of the near South Coast. The scenery of the surrounding district is among the prettiest of the Illawarra. Green meadows dotted with trees roll down to the ocean shore, stone walls intersect the rich pastures, and here and there are patches of dense sub-tropical jungle, with the coastal range as an impressive background. The turn-off to Werri Beach is at a point about half a mile on the south side of Omega, on the Prince's Highway, and…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →THERE are seemingly frail women who handle their cars competently and with untroubled confidence, and turn up smiling after a day's run of three hundred miles or more without a…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →A remarkable accident, at Gerogery, near Albury, resulted in C. Potter, 21, of Goulburn, a railway fettler, suffering a broken leg. During the early morning a gang of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →NEW ZEALAND last year became the biggest overseas purchaser of British motor-cars. The Board of Trade returns, issued to-day, reveal that the Dominion imported 8225 cars, valued at £952,620--an increase of £344,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Lister Bunn, 45, motor mechanic, was committed for trial by Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at Central Police Court yesterday on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The corridor type of tramcar was introduced through the representations of tramwaymen, following a number of accidents through men…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Doris Leslie Guest, 24,of Manuka. who was injured in a motor smash on the Federal Highway, near Canberra, on Saturday night, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In reply to Sutherland Shire Council's request that the existing galvanised iron sheets on the Sutherland overhead traffic bridge be replaced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN honor of the approaching marriage of Miss Irene Strelitz with Mr. Ronald Levinger, Miss Gwen Rayner gave a bridge party at the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →The Main Roads Department informed Sutherland Shire Council at its last meeting that approval had been given for the re-allocation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A resident complained at the last meeting of Sutherland Shire Council of the number of large heavily-laden motor lorries which used his street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sutherland Shire Council has been informed by the Department of Main Roads that preliminary investigations had been made for bridging…
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