Barrier Miner Saturday, January 27, 1940. the Road Hog
ALTHOUGH we in Australia regard Hitler as a world menace, we casually disregard a menace equally as great who is in our midst all the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
463 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 24
Colts Collapse Against Railway Town
A WEAKENED Colts team was dismissed for 89 runs when they met Railway Town at the Cricket Ground today. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comments of Readers The New Motor Monopoly To the Editor, Sir—
When will our people all learn that the world's trade is nothing more nor less than the bartering of goods, and that the paper credits (called…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Barrier Miner Tuesday, January 30, 1940. the Adelaide Road
It is a revalution to travel over the Broken Hill-Adelaide Road nowadays, That is, except for a small portion of about 30 miles from here to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Fails to Prevent Modernising of London Tube Railway London, January 29
In spite of the great calls the war has made on the Southern Railway Co.'s plan for modernising the Waterloo City Railway, the original…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Collision AndCoutitSequel Light Fine Imposed
A MOTORIST who failed to give way to vehicle on his right and was concerned in a colllsion at the corner of Bromide and Williams Streets on October 10, was fined £with 8/- costs by Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Men On Motor Cycle Two Fined in Police Court
HOW three men had ridden on a solo motor cycle in Bonanza Street on December 3 and the driver had allegedly given a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sped Along South Road Motorist Fined £2 By S M.
"SOUTH Road seems to be a speed track. I have warned motorists that I would impose heavy penalties, said the…
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APPRECIATION of the work done on the Adelaide Road by the South Australian Highways Department was expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girls Driving "Decent". Hoboes Off Roads Chicago, January 20
More than 5000 girl hoboes are roving the highwaysland railways of the United States, "driving decent itinerants from the road."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crossed South Hill at Grade Motorists Fined By Magistrate
Two motorists who crossed the South Hill at a grade were fined £3 and £4 respectively when they appeared before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today. The magistrate described the practice as extremely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorists Not Careful Sydney
Following observations made by R.A.C.A. officers over the week-end, the secretary of that organisation (Mr. Clyde Hodgings) today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waiving of Road Opening Fee Benefit To Some Citizens
TO avoid the constant opening of roads to repair pipes and to encourage citizens to lay copper pipes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ex-railwayman Falls 60ft.; KILLED
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Henry Musson, 79, retired stationmaster, fell 60 feet from the third floor of a block of flats at Manly early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Premier Appeals To Motorists SYDNEY
The State Premier (Mr. Mair) today appealed to motorists to take a few old bags in their cars when they were going to the country, so that they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ROADS and RAILWAYS
Being placed an it is Wilcannia can see the results of the stroke on the railway section between Ivanhoe and Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The Miner" Motor Sections Motoring Notes Conducted by Transmission Road Hogs Who Don't Give Hand Signals
YOU lead an interesting life when you represent the senior motoring organisation in Australia and you'd be amazed at the number of people Who ring me up or stop me in the street and say "Look here Carbon. Here's something the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Ambulance Likely For Infectious Cases
There is every prospect that Broken Hill will shortly have a new motor ambulance for infectious cese, said Mr. C. Brockhill, a member of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drove Along South Road Taxi Driver Fined £3
A TAXI driver who drove over the South Hill at 30 miles an hour and travelled at 60 miles an hour along the South Road at 1 a.m. on December 11, was fined £3 with 5/6 costs by Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist Cut Corner; Fined 30/
AMOTORIST who cut a corner and informed the magistrate that everyone did it in his street was fined 30/-, with 5/6 costs,…
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