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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Visiting Pilots Critical of Local Aerodrome

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 7

Pilots from the illawarra Flying School who visited Crookwell last Saturday and Sunday week were…

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Hit by Train: Man's Condition Satisfactory

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 1

A man who was struck by a railway engine near Breadalbane yesterday is in a satisfactory condition…

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Derailment Causes Train Delay

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 1

Derailments of a goods brake van at Medway Junction, between Tallong and Maru[?]an, on Tuesday night…

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“Japan at Cross Roads” Missionary’s Interesting Film

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 2

Mr. Eric Brown, Australian Secretary for the Slavic and Oriental Missionary Society, will visit Yass next Monday…

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Sheep Impounded From Dog Trap Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 1

The president, Cr. G. Johnson, said at last Goodradigbee Shire Council meeting that he had directed the impounding officer to…

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Grand Junction Road Sewerage Mechanical Excavator Saves £455

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 6

By using a mechanical excavator there will be a saving of £455 on the sewerage extension to the…

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Goulburn Motor Cycle Club Notes

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 2

Sunday's weather at Wolongong was ideal for the motor cycle races held at the new Kemb[?]a Grange…

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£2000 Railway Haul in Secret Room of Home

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A Kempsey detective and railway investigation officers last night allegedly found £2000 worth of goods in a secret room in a house at South Kempsey…

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Shire Roads No Deviation On Binalong Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 4

Goodradigbee Shire Council at its last meeting decided not to agree to the proposal of the Main Roads Department for a…

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Inquest on South-west Train Shooting

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: A C.I.B. Scientific Bureau constable described in the City Coroner's Court to-day how he had found the body of a C.S.I.R.O. scientist lying in a pool of blood on the seat of a railway carriage…

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Train Crash

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: First, reports from Buenos Alres say that 21 persons were killed in train crash to-day near the city of…

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Crookwell Road Car Crash

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

A man was injured when a car overturned on the Crookwell Road at the week-end. He is Francis Eric Conolly, 24,…

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Plea For Better Crookwell Train Service

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

The Cahill Government would have to allow its railway chiefs to serve the public better by altering train…

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Evidence on S.-west Train Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A C.I.B. ballistics expert told the City Coroner, Mr. E. J. Forrest, to-day that stains around a bullet wound in a dead man's forehead could have come from a shot fired from a distance of about eight inches. Det. Constable Ross, of the…

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Detective Tells Of Alleged Confession: Train Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Detective Fred Krahe, of the C.I.B., told City Coroner, Mr. E. J. Forrest, to-day that he had heard a man confess to the killing of a 40-year-old C.S.I.R.O. scientist. The Coroner was continuing…

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STANDARD “8” Road Test “Hums Along Effortlessly”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 3

Mr. Colin Williamson of GARAGE 83, who road-tested the Standard “8” while in Sydney last week has these observations…

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Railway Needs 2000 Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Railways Department needed 2000 men and the Transport Department several hundred, Transport…

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Two Death on the Roads

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Two men have been charged with manslaughter following fatal road accidents at Wollongong and…

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Hints to Motorists

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 8

Here are some N.R.M.A. hints to motorists: Smooth tyres can be dangerous. When the treads have worn…

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Frogmore Serviceman Sues Ex-Cowra Man Claimed £84 Owing On Motor Bike Sold At Cowra

Boorowa News · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 6

A Frogmore serviceman, Clarence William Wilson, unsuccessfully sued a former Cowra man, Leslie Arnold Thompson, in the District Court at Cowra last week for an amount of £84 which he claimed Thompson owed him for a motor…

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