Murray Bridge Race Finishes
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
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Mr. Gun's Comment On Train Service
"Towards the end of 1936, we were approached by local business people with a request for an improved passenger rail service to Adelaide,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electric Motor Passes
The Board of Examiners of Enginedrivers appointed under the Mines Inspection Act, 1901, have submitted to the Minister for Mines their report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The Miner " Motor Section Topical Motoring Notes Minimising Accidents Necessity For Hand Signal
One of the major causes of road accidents in which automobiles are involved is the lack of courtesy shown by so many drivers in not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Army Transport By Motor Trucks a Verage Speed of 25 M.P.H.
Recent happenings in Japan and Spain have served to emphasise the fact that, in modern warfare, speed is a decisive factor, and to-day all the great nations of the world are concentrating on the mechanisation of their forces. Vast Sums are being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Largest in World Ward Road Gaol In Shanghai
SHANGHAI'S Ward Road Gaol, evacuated by arrangement between the warring Chinese and Japanese, is the largest prison in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Collides with Train
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Lionel Thompson was fatally injured when a car was swept for 100 yards in front of the Mornington train at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Town Win Women's Cricket
Railway Town secured an outright win over Swimmers in the Ladies' Cricket Association, in the match which was concluded yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Town Lose To Ex-High
IN defeating Railway Town by 117 runs on the first innings, Ex-High caused a surprise on No. 1 wicket on the Broken Hill Cricket Ground on Saturday. Continuing their innings from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby Orphan Adopted Pooley Bridge's Win Brings Luck MELBOURNE
Jimmie, orphaned eight-months-old boy, of Bairnsdale, has been offered a home by the owner of the racehorse Pooley Bridge, Captain C. H. Dawson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pooley Bridge for the Australian Cup? Second Last Year-Returns To Form At Caulfield
INDICATIONS that Australia's champion hurdler Pooley-Bridge is going to have another crack at the Australian Cup were revealed when the Ornamentation gelding defeated the opposition in the Anniversary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Staging Was Not Strong Enough' South Road Work Hampered
WORK on the South-road has been hampered yesterday and to-day because of a breakdown in the Council[?]s, only steam roller. With the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japan's New Manoeuvre To Bombard All Roads To Canton Britons Warned (Special to "The Miner") Hong Kong, January 18
ROADS from the border of British leased territory to the Chinese mainland at Canton will now be constantly subject to bombardment. The Japanese have informed the British authorities of this so that Britons desirous of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists Observing New Regulation
Police officers report that Broken Hill motorists are complying with the traffic regulations imposed under the new Bill,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Floods in N.S.W. Murwillumbah Train Missing 9in. of Rain at Bellingen
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Torrential rains are falling on the North Coast. Last night the Tweed River broke its banks at Murwillumbah inundating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Railways Unlikely in North Australia
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The recommendation of the Payne committee that new railways should be built in North Australia is unlikely to be…
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The base course construction for the last portion of the South-road from the railway line near Garnetstreet to the bottom of South Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increase in Motor Registrations
SYDNEY, Friday.—New motor vehicles registered in Australia in 1987 totalled 80,712, excluding the unknown number placed on the roads…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3395 Deaths Due To Motor Accidents Average Of One In Every 2000 Australians
Despite the fact that the figures covering fatal accidents in Australia in 1936, recently issued by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, are just over 12 months old, the record contains features that are of more than passing interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"The Miner" Motor Section Topical Motoring Caravabs Popular In S.A.
Although thousands of motorists rely on Christmas holidays for their annual vacation, an unusually large number are at…
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