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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
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CONSIDERABLE surprise has been expressed that the Royal Automobile Club of Australia has had little to say on the suggested increase of 6d. a gallon on petrol. The reason is a simple one. There has been no official…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) said to-day that deaths from road accidents over the holidays totalled little more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERTH, Wednesday.—A woman and her 12-month-old son had an amazing escape from serious injury when they were knocked down by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A ban on the use of motor horns except in emergency is being sought by the president of the Victorian Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE secretary of the Australian Railwaymen's Union (Mr. Lloyd Ross) said last night that Broken Hill railwaymen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →POLICE and ambulance men had to climb 75 feet up a steep banking with two injured men after a motor car crash recently at Walkden, Lanes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—By smashing a window in a passenger train while it was travelling between Shepparton and Mooroopna yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although several motorists who reached Broken Hill from Adelaide today reported that difficulty had been experienced on the road, reports from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KEEN racing men have a prejudice against aged mares, but one of them, Lady Mancilla, was equal to defeating the hot favorite, Monvale, with Too Poo in third place in the Pellew Handicap, the winner's price being 7 to 1…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We are advised by Sergeant Smith of the local Police Station that on and after the 1st February, 1940 [?] will be taken against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) says that the Government is not going to scrap trams just because bus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Brisbane express which was delayed nearly four hour by flood waters which damaged railway lines around Tamworth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIGURES just made available by the Railway Department reveal that New South Wales steam locomotives travelled more than 28,274,000 miles last year, for an average cost of 3/5 a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 11.—Seventy people were injured last night when a railway station lift crashed at Birkenhead, and two electric trains…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In reply to a letter regarding construction of bridges at Marra Creek and at Rosedale Crossing, Mr. Davidson, M.L.A. received the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Editor, Sir— may I ask your favor of a little space in your paper are our roads. I have just returned from a trip…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Wilcannia Police Court on Thursday the following persons were fiend for breaches of the Motor Traffic Act…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN a motor-car carno into collision with a stationary "motor lorry in front of Pellew and Moore's Blende Street shop last night the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAST train in from Sydney until the settlement of the strike by members of the Australian Railways' Union between Broken Hill and 15 miles beyond Menindee will be the steam train tomorrow morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Joseph O'Connor was fined 2/-, with 8/- costs, by Mr. M. S. Moagher, acting S.M., in the Police Court today when he pleaded guilty…
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