Railway Entrance
A request for an additional entrance to the Westmead railway station was recently made by Blacktown Council. At the meeting last Thursday the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
7,611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250
Motor Boating. Cettien Reappears. Fast Run by Newsletter
Cettien, Mr. H. McEvoy's powerful hydroplane, which holds the Australian speed record, has been reconditioned and appeared in a St. George Club's race at Kogarah Bay on Saturday. Cettien was…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Stole Wife's Motor Car
Ernest W. Campton, 38, salesman, was charged to-day at Central Police Court with having on January 1 obtained £40 from Percy Corbin King…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Exhibition in Glasgow Railway Coy. Orders Two Launches London
IN connection with the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow, opening in the Spring, for which a large number of oversea visitors are expected in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Curve-line Tramp Is "Mae West of the Seas"
DESCRIBED by her mate as "the Mae West of British tramp steamers," because of her curves, the Auretta arrived yesterday from Tampico, Gulf of Mexico. "She has curves a Hollywood…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall From Bridge. Wagga
Frank Brennan, 34, while swimming in the Murrumbidgee River, climbed the under structure of the Hampden Bridge, with the intention of diving from the bridge. He slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Better And Wider Roads, Says Board
THE Hawkesbury River Bridge, the Eastwood-St. Leonards road (and bridge), and the resumptions for widening…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Train Cooks and Waiters Melbourne
To raise the standard of service in the hotel, catering and food trades in Victoria, and to provide more efficient cooks, waiters and waitresses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anzac Day. Train Schedules for Ex-Servicemen
Free railway passes will be extended to all ex-servicemen living in New South Wales to enable them to attend the Anzac Day march and celebrations Details of the days on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Convict & Slavery Days Recalled Relief Workers Forced to Work on Roads
THE transfer of Auburn relief workers from the municipality to bush camps was described by Ald. W. H. Lamb at Auburn Council last night as one of the most drastic and vindictive attacks the Government had made upon relief workers, and one calling for protest in the name…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl's Plane, Train And Bus Dash For Games AUCKLAND
VIOLET MONTGOMERY, one of Canada's 80 competitors for the Empire Games in Sydney, is fortunate to be with the party which arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi today. She missed the train at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Road Test. 1938 BUICK 8-40. Greatly-improved Car
Certain revolutionary changes in the design of the Buick 8-40 make it one of the most interesting of the 1938 models, and the opportunity of making…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motorists' Tests. No Periodic Trials. Authorities Like Present System
The agitation for regular periodic tests of motor drivers will not have the support of the traffic authorities in New South Wales. Inspector Hooper,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motoring. Motor Horns. Use and Misuse. Signal for Emergencies
That essential part of a motor car, the horn or warning signal, is rather under a cloud at the moment, and rightly so, because, as many authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Unions' Appeal
An appeal to railway workers and employees to support the industrialists in their fight against Mr. Lang has been issued over the names of 52 executives, shop delegates, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Too Few Workers, Too Many Bosses Worker Indicts Railway Chiefs
A new system has been enforced by the Railway Commissioners on the staffs of the S. M. and Parcel Agent at Sydney station…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Editorial That Lecture To Erring Motorists
The suggestion that the first 300 motorists who were booked for exceeding the 30 m.p.h. speed limit will be assembled and lectured by the police on road safety is highly interesting. Apparently the police really do believe that education will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railwayman's Death Goulburn
As he signed off work at Maru[?]an, where he was employed as relieving railway night officer, Henry Ernest Tooth. 48, of East Goulburn. became…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Everyday--And--Everybody Movies, Motors, Money
MOTORS and movies appear to be the avenues of employment into which one should enter in U.S.A. Incomes for 1936, revealed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Critically Injured by Tram
Struck by a tram in George Street, near Market Street, City, last night, Miss D. Howes, of Ramsgate Avenue, Bondi, suffered a fractured skull…
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