Sequel To Road Incident Damages Claim In District Court
THE story of an alleged head-on collision between a passenger service car and a motor car on the Mildura road about 23 miles from…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
412 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 21
21 Men In Creek; Bridge Crash
PORT GERMEIN. Thursday.— Twenty-one workmen were hurled into the bed of a creek 17 feet below when a motor truck crashed through the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Drastic curtailment of civilian travel will be discussed at a meeting of all State transport executives in Melbourne…
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Many of the mails were delayed because of the heavy and boggy state of the roads. The mails which found most difficulty in getting through were the…
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While the transfer of buildings is being made from the old to the new aerodrome, the Aero Club is sharing the Flying Doctor Service hangar…
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Whilst perusing your columns last night I noticed requests by petitions from various residents for the repairing of different streets. I quite…
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AN Australian soldier[?] Driver Arthur Roy Willis (50), of the Home Forces, and a veteran of World War 1, was found…
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There was a further rush today by people re-registering motor vehicles. The total for the fortnight is now more than 50. This is believed to be…
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MR. LEE PARKIN is the organiser of the telephone bridge evening to be held next Saturday, June 6, in aid of the funds which make…
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DRAGGED 40 yards along the roadway by an alleged hit-and-run motorist, a 10-months-old baby girl, which was being wheeled in its…
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SYDNEY,—A soldier and a civilian were killed and two soldiers injured when a pole, being unloaded from a railway truck in East Maitland…
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LABELLED, with an identity badge, I stepped into a vast factory where some thousands of men and women are producing Rolls-Royce and Merlin engines for Spitfires. Hurricanes, Wellingtons, Halifaxes, Beaufighters and other famous British warplanes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Concessions to Pensioners
Arrangement have recently been made with the Commissioner for Railways for an extension of the railway travel concessions available for country pensioners…
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On Saturday last the military service committee of the Y.M.G.A. held their second telephone bridge evening in aid of the military service fund. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Town Mothers' Club Sixth Birthday
The Railway Town Mothers' Club held a successful sixth birthday party at the school on Saturday. A large crowd attended. The Burke Ward…
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Although City Council employees are still engaged on Main Roads works in the 1941-42 programme, only about £1000 remains to be expended…
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ALTHOUGH the motor car in which they were travelling to Wilcannia last week end overturned several times after crashing off the road into a ditch the occupants did not suffer any serious injury. The car, owned and driven by Mr. H. S. Middleton, was badly damaged…
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ADELAIDE. — Lindsay Ernest Campbell, railway clerk, of Davenport Terrace, Wayville, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Police Court to charges…
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Four Broken Hill business own. Messrs R. E. A. Kitchen. H. Middleton. Bert Walker and E. Jones and a visitor from South Australia Mt. W. Host, were…
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It is apparent that [?] exist in the [?] of some [?] with regard to the National Secretary [?] of Sheep Regulations…
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