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Railways, roads & transport, 1937

9,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Sequel to Fight in Train

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 5

When Robert William Richards, 22, was fined £5 by Mr. Oram, S.M., at Hornsby Court yesterday on a charge of having behaved offensively in a…

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Design in Hand Peat's Ferry Bridge

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 8

A DESIGN for a £385,000 bridge across Peat's Perry has been prepared to the order of the N.R.M.A…

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Enforce Road Rules Club's Suggestion For Safety

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 8

Action by the police, who, it is asserted, would more effectively promote road safety than enforcement of speed limits, is suggested in a…

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Two Can Play Bridge No Partners in New System

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 24

IT is possible for two people to play contract bridge without partners. They can enjoy all the thrills…

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J. Medica Did Not Train First Swim Was in Title

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 9

So warm and enervating was the water in Brisbane that Jack Medica was not permitted to train for the 1500 metres national title…

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Combined Growers' Tobacco Manufacturers' Company Ltd. Commercial Road, Valley, Brisbane, Q.

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 6

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Drivers Must Do 40 m.p.h. Fixed-speed Road In U.S.A.

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 8

In America, where traffic deaths have reached appalling proportions, a concrete road has been constructed, and on it motorists must drive…

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Blanket of Hail on Road Terrific Downpour In Bathurst District Vivid Lightning Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 5

ALL traffic on the main' roadway near Wallerawang, on the Bathurst-Lithgow road, was held up this afternoon for a…

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Aust. Is on High Road to Victory One Run Short of 300 LEAD Bradman Was The Hero Carried Team Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 1

ONE run to-day will give Australia a lead of 300 runs in the fourth Test. Australia has six wickets in hand and is on the high road to victory…

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The Moving Camera Clicks Along the Road From Sydney to the Lachlan No. 5 — In the Country of the Bushrangers. Next Week: The Homeward Journey

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 46

The country here is beautiful as well as fertile. It is difficult to demonstrate the fact on paper, but this yellow box by the roadside seemed to me to symbolise the idea. Setting out from Bathurst, discovered and named the…

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Hot-weather Motoring: Consideration for Man and Machine

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 43

At this time of the year, when summer has reached its hottest period, motoring can be rather uncomfortable unless the car is a type in which arrangements can be made to counteract the oppressive effect of the temperature, while an abnormally hot day can induce unexpected troubles in the car itself unless steps are taken beforehand to guard against their occurrence. In so far as the comfort of the driver and his…

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Tramp Shipping. Payment of Subsidies. "Saved From Collapse." (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Feb. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 16

The House of Commons approved a financial resolution yesterday, extending by 12 months the period for which subsidies are payable, and making provision for payment up to an…

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Preference to Soldiers. Railway Policy. Union Dissatisfied

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 6

Mr. Lloyd Ross, secretary of the Australian Railways Union, said yesterday tiiat the union had received a reply from the acting secretary for railways giving terms of an…

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District Court. (Before Judge Thomson.) Car Damaged by Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 10

M. Simonson Proprietary, Ltd., of Kent-street, Sydney, sought to recover from the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways £75 for damage to a motor car…

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City Railway. Claims for Increased Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 16

An application has been made by the United Labourers' Union to the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. G. J. Baker, to have 48 men who work on the heading at the Harrington…

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Motor Cycling. Metro 50 Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 19

After checking and revision of the controlling officiais' reports, the Eastwood and District Club yesterday issued full results of the third annual metro 50 series of open road races, which were…

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Constable Killed. Accident with Disabled Motor Cycle. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 10

As a result of head injuries which he received when a police motor cycle overturned at St. Kilda Junction yesterday, Constable Leonard Carden Rymer, 28, of Oakleigh, died…

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Motorist Charged Christmas Eve Accident

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 16

ALLEGATIONS that a motorist, while tinder the influence of liquor on Christmas Eve, had knocked…

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For Quay Railway

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 6

Part of the machinery- now in use at Circular Quay preparing the foundations for the new Quay Railway Station, which, it is stated, will take three years to build…

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£3550 for Loss of Reason Sequel To Smash In Motor Car

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 6

MR. JUSTICE FINLAY at Man- Chester Assizes recently entered judgment by consent for £3550, which includes special damages and costs…

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