Silverton Tramway Employees' Association
Mr. S. R. Merrett presided over a well attended meeting of the Silverton Tramway Eeployees Union held at the Trades Hall on Monday night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
771 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 39
Strange Predicament Of Flood Bound Driver Of Motor Lorry
THE strange predicament of a flood-bound mail driver, whose passenger died as the lorry was crossing the Queensland-South Australian border, was revealed by an urgent call received at the Flying Doctor Base today…
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An urgent call received at the Flying Doctor Base at Round Hill yesterday, revealed a tragedy on the road between Karmona Station (Queensland) and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Weeks' Holiday Not for Railway Employees Sydney. February 25
The Government has no intention of giving effect in the resolution passed some time ago by members to the draft legislation providing railway employees with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vandals Active at Railway Town Playground Closed in Hillside Park
BECAUSE damage has been caused to lawns and other equipment at the children's playground now under construction at the Hillside Reserve it has been closed until the official opening. The Town Clerk (Mr. C…
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An all power driven grader of the latest design is to be used by the Public Works Department for work on the Cockburn Road, which is to…
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Council last night accepted Mr. A. J. Keast's offer, namely, that the Council will carry out improvements to the road surface in Gypsum street opposite the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Modern Motoring Aircraft T[?]ler Australian Producing Wins Wolrd-wide [?]
WHEN the lockheed Hud[?] were due to arrive in Australia [?] means had [?] Sevised in[?] the tremming from the ship's side to the Aircraft Lenors…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—It was stated at a deputation today from the Railway Workshops Committee which waited on Messrs. Matthews, Cahill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italians Swept From African Skies South Africans Blasting Roads Of Retreat Bulk Of Six Somaliland Brigades Shattered LONDON, February 27
The British Air Force has swept the Italian and Eritrea skies, and the South African Air Force is blasting Italians from the roods of retreat from Somaliland to Addis Abbobo. English and Allied land forces are hourly bringing near the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rall Chiefs Tour Of North-west Railways SYDNEY
THE Commissioner for Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan) on his return to Sydney after an extensive tour of the north-western portion of the State embracing a distance of nearly 2,000 miles, expressed his complete satisfaction with the uniformly good condition of…
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Members of the Railway Town Progress Association were active again on Saturday afternoon last when another busy bee was held for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nibbling Moves At Keren Strange Hide and Seek Duel Mountain Roads and Paths
A PART from the rapid advance in Italian Somliland, which has led to the capture of Villaggio d'Abruzzi (Villaggio Duca d'Abruzzi) an important agricultural centre 80 miles along the railway line from Mogadishu,…
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LONDON, March 3.—David Hutton, 10, of Carlisle, was trampled to death when a crowd of nearly 100 people stampeded to catch a bus in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work on Cockburn Road
About 16 miles of the Adelaide road between Broken Hill and Cockburn has been graded and scarified by the Public Works Department, the…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.— Once work is begun, Senator Foll, Minister for the Interior, does not expect the new road to connect Western…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Visitors Injured in Road Accident
Two visitors to Broken Hill were injured and one was later admitted to Hospital when a motor utility driven by Francis Josiah Arthur, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Modern Motoring Can Still Do 90 Famous Buick Racer Reconditioned
RESURRECTED after nearly 30 years of illeness the Buick "Bug" races was second oned, and given a few modern furbish ags priror to its display in the New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Lorry Overturns
On its way to Broken Hill from Adelaide at 6.30 o'clock last evening a motor truck turned over twice when about one and a half miles out from this city…
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Members will conduct another busy bee on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of delivering trees and guards to residents in Cornish Street, between Gypsum and…
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