RAILWAYS Early History Dislikes and Prejudices Difficulties That Were Overcome
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3
The early history of railways formed the subject of a very interesting address, which was given by Mr. Fielding Darby at the weekly luncheon of the…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 4
More than 1000 railwaymen, their wives and children attended the annual picnic at Tamworth. Over £50 in prize money was distributed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Review Germany's Handicaps Army Short Of Officers Railway System Strained Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 5
Of all the cruel and brumal acts by which a barbarous people has horrified the world none has created such a feling of revulsion as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety Council Branch For Grafton Public Meeting To-night
Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 March 1940 · page 4
It was not until 1935 that the severity of road accidents, and the serious wastage of human life caused by them, focussed public attention on…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 4
Clarence River residents who wish to visit Lismore to-morrow and return the same day may take advantage of the special train which will leave Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Branch Formed Road Safety Council Public Meeting At Grafton Address by Commissioner of Transport
Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 4
"This meeting of citizens of Grafton and district recommends that in view of the increasing number of road accidents throughout the State…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 5
Torrential downpours have again occurred in the far north, and this morning rivers and creeks between Cairns and Innisfail were in flood,…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 5
A sensational denunciation of the "mock funeral," the presence of the Communistic element in the railways and the alleged control of Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Erosion Near Nymboida Power-House Water Causes Damage Letter From Main Roads Department
Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 6
A the monthly meeting of the Nymb[?] Shire Council at South Grafton yesterday morning the Divisional Engineer of the Main…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Smashes Drink And Speed Interviews with Death. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 3
In the file of the Road Safety Council there are some amazing stories of violent deaths, and yet all of them have explanations that are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freighter Damaged Struck By Motor Ship Russian Sailor Feared Dead. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 5
Efforts to-day by the crews or two tugs saved a 3000 tons Union freighter from sinking, after it had been struck amidships by an 11,000 ton Blue Star…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Danger to Public" Stallions On Road Their Destruction Requested Orara Shire Council Meeting
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 2
At a meeting of the Orara Shire Council held at South Grafton yesterday morning, a letter was received from H. S. Martin, of Tucabia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work to Cease on Railway Siding
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 4
About a fortnight ago a gang of men commenced work on a new siding at Sawtell, and with much of the work completed, the men were given notice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ambulance Road Signs?
Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 4
Bellingen Shire Council, at the request of the District Ambulance, has decided to bring before the Main Roads Department and the Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Criticised "Worst In Commonwealth" Grafton-lawrence Highway Lawrence P.P.U. Complain to Shire
Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 6
The Grafton-Lawrence road was described as the "worst main road in the Commonwealth" by the Lawrence P.P. Union in a letter which…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2
The Shire Engineer (Mr. E. J. Smith) drew the Council's attention in his report to last meeting to rapid deterioration of the gravelled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Railway German Coal for Italy. Rome
Daily Examiner · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 5
Italy and Germany have reached agreement for the shipment of coal to Italy by railway. It is officially stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Driver Killed Car And Tram Collide Woman Fatally Injured. Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 1
Robert Mann, 30. of Surrey Hills, was killed instantly when a car he was driving crashed into a tram at South Yarra shortly before midnight on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Railway Line Woman's Headless Body Found Near Newcastle. Newcastle
Daily Examiner · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 4
Mrs. Dulcie Whitton, 22, of Mary street, Cardiff, was decapitated by a train, near Cardiff railway station, early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Spectacular Landing Airliner At Coff's Harbor Aerodrome Under Water. Coff's Harbor
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 4
Landing amidst a cloud of fine spray this afternoon, the south-bound Stinson airliner from Brisbane, in charge of Pilot Pollock, made a…
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