Contract Bridge Opposing Bids Problem
It is a moot point whether opposing bidding more often helps a partnership to reach its best…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
4,268 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 214
Girl Fell From Moving Train
Falling from a moving train between Sydenham and Marrickville stations to-day, Beatrice Dixon, 15, of Phillip-street, Lakemba, suffered head…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fewer Deaths on Road
Preliminary statistics for 1939 reveal a substantial reduction in the number of road deaths compared with the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Deaths Drop In 1939
Road accident deaths in New South Wales in 1939 totalled 518, compared with 585 in 1938. The decrease was about 12 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bridge Tourney Final From A Ringside Seat
I had a ringside seat last night at a bridge tournament. The occasion was the final of the annual contest for the David Jones' challenge cup. organised by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Skates Ban New Menace Of Roads MELBOURNE
A ban on the use of children's skates, trolly trucks, tricycles and billycarts on public roads and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →29,000 Men to Train in Camps
Twenty-nine thousand men in New South Wales will each spend three months in military training camps before the end of next June. Nine thousand will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Cuppa-tea" Express. More Friend Than Train
As you lean from the train window and look back towards Alice Springs the mountains seem to follow. The McDonnell Ranges come comfortably in round…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Royal Motor Yacht Club At Rose Bay
Cruiser Handicap, 1½m. -- Heat 1: Constance (A. G. Collins) 1. Cravena II. (K. A. Morris) 2, Neryda (C. Weatherill) 3. Five seconds; six seconds. Heat 2; Cravena…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Full Pay for Tram Men Who Enlist
Tramway employees enlisting in the A.I.F. are allowed the difference between their departmental pay and the amount received by them from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Barriers To Settling Railway Strike
Mr. Hartigan, Railway Commissioner, is behaving most unreasonably, almost petulantly, in the Broken Hill line dispute. He is erecting continual petty barriers to discussion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anniversary Railway Excursions
Acting Secretary for Railways, Mr. S. R. Nicholas, said yesterday that there would be excursions within a wide zone next week-end, including…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fierce Air Battle Over Nazi Base British Planes Drop Bombs on Railway Lines Naval Fight London, Friday. Our Own Cable Service
ANOTHER terrific air battle between British and German planes occurred last night over the Island of Sylt, the Nazi air base near Heligoland, according to reports from Tondern, a nearby Danish frontier town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unfair to Tram Guard
A tramway conductor had been dismissed because the Department preferred to accept the word of a passenger who intervened in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burragorang road repairs
Motorists are advised by the N.R.M.A. touring department to exercise care when travelling to Burragorang Valley during the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Beware of flooded road
Visitors to the Lake Cargelligo district are reminded by the N.R.M.A. touring department that, owing to the heavy flooding…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →PHOTONEWS Water ballet; officers train Making Men
STRAINING with strong young muscles at tug-of-war at Wakehurst Camp, Camden. More than 60…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Schools should train girls as future wives
"Subjects designed to make a girl a good wife and mother should come before higher education, such as languages." The ex-president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Eastwood Road Ready February 3
Although the new main road, Epping to St. Leonards, is to be opened on, and will carry traffic, from February 3, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Road Hoardings Ban On Mountains LITHGOW
Blaxland Shire Council has decided to ban roadside hoardings in the shire. By the end of this year they will have disappeared…
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