Topping of fruit

Poor quality and rude service prompted "Old Digger" to write: "Sir, I hope the new Sydney City Council aldermen will do something about the topping of fruit by the barrowmen in the city streets. This morning I bought four apples and on examining them I found only one that was sound. My money was returned with a few sarcastic remarks, and although I am 66 years of age I was addressed as 'little boy'."

Sydney fruit barrows were the subject of complaint. Credit:Fairfax Archives

No new trams for Sydney

The Minister for Transport, Mr. E. Wetherell, announced that the Department of Transport would buy no more trams, and existing tram services would gradually be replaced by buses. The main factor, he said, was the high cost of replacing old tram tracks. "Buses the world over have proved themselves the most modern and efficient type of public transport, and have superseded trams in all important overseas cities," he said.

New speed radars

Senior police and government officials will watch secret trials of a radar speed-checking device, it was reported. The device, being tested for the first time in Australia, will register speeds of vehicles on main highways. The Chief of the Traffic Branch, Superintendent W. Salmon, said it could check the speed of vehicles travelling at up to 60 miles an hour, and was being used in the United States for this purpose.