Boxing Stars Train at Newtown Gym
AMONG boxers training at Ern McQuillan's Newtown gymnasium are Vic Patrick, Alf Gallagher, Charlie Ashenden, Les Fuller, Jack McNamee,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
6,390 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250
Road Fatalities Increase in S.A.
Deaths in South Australia last year from road accidents totalled 83, compared with 78 in 1945. Returns from the City Coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improvement in Queensland Main Roads. £1,591,793 Spent in Six Months
Expenditure on main roads in Queensland for the last six months of 1946 totalled £1,591,793, an increase of £703,366 on the corresponding period of 1945…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boon to Railway Men
A platform near the works, and an overhead bridge across the main railway lines, between Auburn and Clyde, for the use of Clyde Waggon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Employees Seek Hall
Clyde Waggon Works Shop Committee has applied to the Railway Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan) for an institute hall near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Port Line Motorship. Port Napier Launched By Mrs. Beasley
The twin-screw Motorship Port Napier, building at the Wallsend shipyard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eastern Railway Project Delayed. Legislation Not Yet Introduced
It is understood that the Railways Department will not be able to start the construction of the eastern Suburbs electric railway until late this year. This is because the State Government has not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hit by Motor Cycle
Leonard Alexander Salkeld, manager of Salkeld and Wallace, Lodge-road, Cremorne, suffered a fractured skull and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorists Seek End of Petrol Rationing
The Australian Automobile Association yesterday asked the Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator Ashley) to end petrol rationing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Como Railway Bridge
At the last meeting of Hursitville Council a communication was received from the Cumberland County Council, in answer to council's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Lorry Blocks Bridge
Traffic was held up from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. yesterday while a motor lorry hung half over a bridge at the intersection of Punchbowl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Motor Collision Ireland's Bridge Again
Once more a fatal accident has Occurred at the dangerous river crossing known as Ireland's Bridge, on the Hume Highway. Cabramatta, near Warwick…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fell From Train; Fractured Skull
Harry de Corsey, 45, of Twelfth-road, Castle Hill, who fell from a train crossing the Meadowbank bridge last night and fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Seat Plan for Train Travellers
The Secretary for Railways (Mr. S. R. Nicholas) yesterday announced a new plan for passengers boarding trains at Sydney, with reserved seat tickets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bid for Motor Markets British Makers' Obstacles
British motor manufacturers are fighting hard to overcome obstacles in the race for rehabilitation of their industries to meet pressing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinese Shot Dead In Motor-Car
MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —One Chinese was shot dead and another was critically wounded in Flinders Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horses Bolt in City Car And Tram Damaged
Two bolting horses attached to a milk cart frightened scores of people and damaged a car and a tram yesterday when they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclists Injured
Two residents of Kogarah were injured on Monday when a motor cycle went through a safety fence and crashed 20 feet down a bank on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Booking Change
FROM Saturday, booking of sleeping berths and seats on the Melbourne and Brisbane expresses (except via Wallangarra) will be extended from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charge Against Tram Conductor Dismissed
A charge of having assaulted a woman tram passenger, preferred against Robert Moffatt (50), tram conductor, 125 Unwin's Bridge Rd., was dismissed at Newtown Court today…
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