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Railways, roads & transport, 1937

9,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

Package Thrown From Train Two Women Knocked Down

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 24

How a man knocked down two women who were standing on Roseville Railway Station by throwing a 14lb. carton of apricots from a train…

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Plea to Abolish Bridge Tolls Traffic At George's River Crossing

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 22

Th Government should take over the remainder of the original cost of George's River Bridge abolish the tolls, and treat it as a national…

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Relieving Congestion at King's Cross Committee Approves New Road

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 13

A PROGRESSIVE move towards relief of traffic congestion at King's Cross was made to-day by the City Council Town Planning Committee. Approval was given to the construction of a by-pass…

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Road to Mt. Keira, overlooking Wollongong, N.S.W.

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 10

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Toll of the Road Man Pinned Under Cart Auburn Collision

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 6

PINNED under his horse-drawn cart after a collision with a motor lorry near the corner of Parramatta Road and Milton Street,…

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Hold-up in Pachabo Bridge Test Judges Are Waiting for Parties to Agree

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 24

JUDGES in the bridge bidding contest in which Mr. A. E. Whitelaw has backed his Pachabo system for £50 to nothing against each of five players, will not give a decision until playing conditions are' agreed to by all…

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Haste in Airmail Plan Ten Months to Prepare for Service Pilots to Train and Bases to Find

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 2

Immediate developments in the flying boat air mail scheme will be: The provision of bases, radio direction-finding, and night lighting of the route from Singapore to Sydney, establishment of…

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The Moving Camera Clicks Along the Road From Sydney to the Lachlan Last of Series : The Homeward Journey

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 17

But did look for, and found, a cairn marking the site of one of the camps of the Oxley-Evans party in their first western exploration — 29th July, 1817. Twenty miles out we called at Dunn's Plains to photograph…

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Economic and Social Reform. Victorian Tramway Union's Proposals

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 6

A COMMITTEE has been appointed by the Executive of the Victorian Branch of the Tramway Employees' Union to consider proposals for economic and social…

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Motoring Abroad Ways and Means for Australian Drivers Who Wish to "Go Foreign"

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 55

AUSTRALIAN visitors to countries overseas, and particularly visitors to the Coronation, may be divided broadly into two classes, those who are content to place themselves unreservedly in the…

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Wilhelmsen Motorship

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 8

Messrs. Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Tonsberg, have placed an order with the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Amsterdam, for a…

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Motor Cycling. Grand Prix Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 19

The Auto Cycle Union of New South Wales has arranged to hold the 1937 Grand Prix road race on the Vale circuit, Bathurst, on Easter Saturday (March 27)…

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Railways Cricket. N.S.W. Beats Queensland. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 21

Saved from defeat by Queensland by a partnership worth 152 runs between Power and Dale, New South Wales won the first of the Interstate railways' cricket matches by 33 runs…

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Tenders for Motors Officers' Advice Is Rejected Water Board Job

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 13

THE Water Board to-day deferred decision upon tenders for certain induction motors following criticism of officers'…

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Thinking Too Late Cause of Motor Accidents

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 19

MOST drivers who cause accidents do not think of others until they, or their victims, are in hospital, says…

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Appeal Is Upheld by Consent Hire Of Motor Car Case At Manly

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 23

By consent, the appeal of Charles Keith Walker against his conviction at the Manly Court on January 7, on a complaint of having, on…

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Tram Conductor on Three Charges

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 24

Gordon Ambrose Powell, 43, tram conductor, was charged at Newtown Court to-day, with scandalous conduct and also with two acts of…

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Railway Station for Quay Traders Favor An Open Competition

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 16

All the best technical brains should be enlisted to advance ideas for a worthy Quay railway station and superstructure, the Circular Quay…

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Dulwich Hill Motor Cyclists

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 3

Dulwich Hill motor cyclists conducted a novel race last week-end, members being required to ride across the sandhills from Kurnell to Cronulla…

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Pete the Tramp-- (Every Wednesday and Saturday) --Fair Exchange

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 16

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