Zinc Train Returning Due At Sulphide-st. Tonight
INHERE were 20 carriages on the Zinc Corporation Picnic Committee's special train which left Adelaide at 7.2 a.m. today. The train is…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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Boy Perishes in Fire at Railway Town
TWO fire in one of which a five-year-old boy was burned to death, gloomily ushered in the New Year in Broken Hill, ine first fire, which damaged Urbani's tailor shop, occurred early on New Year's Eve. and the other shortly before midnight…
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Albert James Pontifex (20), of California-street, Nailsworth, was severely injured when the motor cycle he was riding was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The body of a man was found on the rocks 30 feet below the cliffs at Maroubra this morning. Some hours earlier a woman…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) indicated today that a new bridge would have to be built over the…
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Nearly 600 pasengers, including women and children, but comprised mainly of men employees of the Zinc Corporation mine returned to Broken…
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LONDON, January 3.—As part of a campaign to reduce the toll of life and limb in road accidents, police motor patrols…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freak Storms in South Australia Wheat Sheds Unroofed; Trams Delayed ADELAIDE
FREAK summer storms struck Adelaide and various parts of the State yesterday culminating in a fierce line squall which swept through a comparatively narrow belt in the Eudunda district, unroofing wheat sheds and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Three Men Injured in Railway Smash
ORANGE.—Three men were injuied, 2 critically, when a fast stock train crashed into a stationary stoek tiain at East Fork…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Making Motor Cars In Australia MELBOURNE
Pengana Motor Industries Pty. Ltd. was registered yesterday with a capital of £50,000 to manufacture motor cars in Australia. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorist Killed; 5 Injured Car Crashes Down Mountain Side Melbourne
ONE man was killed and five others were injured last night as the result of a truck crash down a mountain side…
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A utility truck owned by Mr. Thomas Andrew Rosman, of 105 Thomas-street, was severely damaged by fire on the Stephens Creek road…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A woman's foot was found last night on the new read over Black Spur about 12 miles from Healesville. It was found by…
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For the convenience of those who were unable to take advantage of the excursion trains run in connection with the Christmas and New Year holidays…
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SIX persons were injured, one fatally and three critically, when a motor car, after leaving the Angelsea-road, near Geelong, about 4 p.m. yesterday,…
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SYDNEY, Monday,—Mrs. Robin Foster (25), who recently came to Sydney from' Orange, and has been living in.Palmer-street, Darlinghurst,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Negligent Driving Of Car Motorist Ordered to Pay £12 Magistrate Issues Warning
"THIS court takes a serious view of all cases in which motorists indulge in driving which might be injurious to the public," said Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court today. "The court will not stand for people who…
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The general store of Mr. Frederick Hamlyn, in 137-139 Ryan-street, Railway Town, was destroyed by fire shortly before 12.30 a.m. yesterday…
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Leslie Cornelius was fined 5/- with 5/6 costs by Mr. R. Donaldson; S.M., in the Police Court today for failing: to-return expired. number plates…
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AN open finding was returned by the Coroner (Mr. R. Donaldson) today when he conducted an inquiry in the Coroner's Court into a fire which destroyed a utility truck owned by Thomas Andrew Rosman, general…
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