Elusive City. Tourists Get Lost in Canberra. Motorists Pass It By. Canberra
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 10
About 100 visitois to Canberra each year become lost after entering the city, because of the absence of adequate roadsigns. This statement was made at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Vehicles. 276,712 at End of 1936. Great Increase Since Depression
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 17
The Premier (Mr. Stevens) said yesterday that there had been a consistent and substantial increase in motor traffic during recent years. Figures which he nad received from…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Shaft Mystery. Search for Motorist Travelling in N.s.w
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 17
New South Wales police have not yet been able to trace Mr. A. P. Greenaway, who, the Victorian police believe, can identify the man found dead at the bottom of an…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Unprofitable Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 6
Sir,—With all due respect to Mr. Arthur Griffith, for whom I have a high regard, as also for and of his opinions geneially, I cannot resist saying that his contention that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Law Report. Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman.) Railway Electrical Trades
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 6
An application was made on behalf of the Electrical Trades Union for variation and/or interpretation of the New South Wales Railways (other than traffic) award. It was asked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Union Objects To Soldier Preference. Railway Work
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 11
The State secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Mr. Lloyd Ross, stated yesterday that the union had protested to the Government and to the Railway Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Unpaid Railway Fare
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7
Robert W. Boyd, 31, labourer, was fined £2 with £1 costs, at the Central Police Court yesterday for having travelled in a train between Lithgow and Sydney without paying his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motoring Conversion of Rolls Royce. Pleasing Lines. Rebuilt 1930 Model
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7
The car illustrated on this page is extremely interesting as showing what can be achieved with a fairly old chassis of very high quality fitted with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motorists and Straying Stock
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7
In answer to numerous inquiries, the Royal Automobile Club of Australia advises motorists of the regulations applying to moving and straying rattle and stock…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Exhaust Fumes Cause Infant's Death. Leak in Motor Exhaust. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 11
Carbon monoxide fumes rising through floorboards from a leaky exhaust pipe caused the death'of Joyce Ellen Rees, aged 2 years and 9 months,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New British Motor Freighter
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 17
The Queen Victoria, a new British motor vessel of 4900 tons, which arrived in Sydney on her maiden voyage yesterday, averaged 11 knots on the trip across the Pacific. Crossing the Atlantic the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Rail & Tram Workers Demand Share of Prosperity Federal Conference Paves Way For United Action FOR 25 Per Cent. More Pay and 40- Hour Week
The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1
SYDNEY, Jan. 15.—A decision to demand that the governments introduce a 40-hour week with a 25 per cent, increase in pay for all railway and tramway workers in Australia, and that all other transport workers do the same with their employers,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s.a. Strikes “Truce” in Motor Dispute
The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 4
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.— The splendid organisation and solidarity among the strikers in the Fisher body plant in Flint…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Abolish Grievances Protest March by Tramwaymen
The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1
SYDNEY, Jan. 15 To cooperate with the Tramways Union in the proposed demonstration to be held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Of Railway Shop Committees
The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 4
SYDNEY.—The Central Council of Railway Shop Committees, at its meeting on January 9, decided to make representations to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Deputation Asks for Railway Premier Promises Thorough Consideration
The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 15
WITH a large bound volume before him of nearly 20,000 signatures of petitioners for an Eastwood-St. Leonards railway, the Premier (Mr. Stevens) said to-day that the Government would give the project the most thorough…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →40-Hour Week in France Huge Wage-Bill Rise On Railways PARIS
The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 15
President Lebrun has signed a decree, enforcing a 40-hour week on the railways from January 25. It is expected to result in work…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Hitch in Motor Strike Parley Detroit
The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 15
After a brief meeting with officials of the General Motors Corporation, a union leader announced that the conference had been suspended and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Drink Test for Motorist "20 p.c. Below Par" Said Doctor
The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 14
One test for drink put to James Mullane, 50, a motor driver, by a doctor on November 30 was to stand up with eyes closed and arms…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →'Best Contribution to Public Welfare' Emancipation and the Modern Motor Car
The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 8
"THE modern car offers to its purchaser and to his family a value in safety of life which was not approached a few years ago. "We think it is the best contribution our industry has ever…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →