Horses & Drays for Council Road Works
Horses and drays are to [?]e used by the engineer's department of the City Council for roadworks in order to save petrol supplies; the City…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
412 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 21
Damages Awarded To Motorist
ADELAIDE, Monday. — Finding that the measures taken by the Commissioner of Highways to warn traffic of an obstruction on the…
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Blinded by the morning sun a motorist knocked down a 14-year-old girl in Beryl Street. He was William John Hughes (66), of 292 Wilson…
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PLAYERS of the North Football Club will starts training for the 1942 season on Tuesday, April 7. The first match of the season is set down…
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ALTHOUGH an engine was derailed and two brake vans and a carriage were badly damaged, only three people were injured…
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AS the Melbourne express was racing through the darkness at Yerong Creek, 50 miles from Albury, at 6.30 a.m. today two carriages burst into flames and were completely destroyed. The flames were noticed by…
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A HEROINE of the fire that destroyed two carriages of the Sydney-Melbourne express was a Chinese nurse, Ah Sum. She saved the life of an 18-month-old child. The baby was Madeline Barclay,…
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The big road repair job at Palgamurtee is well advanced now. The last one and a half tons of cement for this work was delivered by Bottom and Clarke this…
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The travelling public in this Western Division are long-suffering. It may be said they suffer to a certain extent every time they venture out with their…
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Ton additional men are to be employed by the City Council on road work under the Main Roads programme. This is being done so that…
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There was quite a rush at the motor registration office at the Central Police Station this morning when seven motor vehicles were registered…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—When an electric train crashed into the rear of another in a tunnel at St. Janes Station today six peoole, including…
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The Silverton Tramway Company has advised that there will be no extra train on Thursday night, of this week as is customary on the night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Darwin's 8th Raid Japanese Attack on Aerodrome Alert In Queensland MELBOURNE
DARWIN had its eighth raid yesterday afternoon, the attack being directed at the aerodrome, but neither damage nor casualties has yet been reported. Enemy aircraft on reconnaissance over Port Moresby yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Resist In Burma Bloody Battle with Japs British Bombers Busy Over Roads (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, March 30
THE Chinese are still holding part of Toungoo, in Burma, and are resisting fierce pressure by the Japanese, but some of the Chinese forces have apparently been withdrawn to the north…
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Attention is drawn to an advertise, ment in this issue for tipping trucks for Mildura aerodrome. Full particulars are available from the shire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—To enable an examination to be made by police and other experts, the railway carriage which caught fire while the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—While a train was stopped on Hawkesbury River bridge early this morning, a 15-ton truck of merchandise for Gosford was…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. — Wandering from his home in Wentworth Road. Toongabbie, today, Kenneth Bell, aged 18 months, was struck by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inquest Opened Into Death Of Railway Man Other Men Escape Injury
THE lighting of a cigarette probably cost the life of Ernest Dodd (50), railway employee, of Young, who was fatally injured at the transhipping yard yesterday. According to eye-witnesses. Dodd had turned his back to light a…
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