Stock Board Rabbits on Railway a Grave Danger
In a letter to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board, Mr. C. B. Alexander, of Tocal, referred to the increasing number of rabbits…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1936
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Big Rise Customs Revenue Railways Too Canberra
At £27,396,521 for the first eight months of the financial year, Customs receipts at the end of February were £2,663,188 above the Budget…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sad Fatality Light Horse Sergeant Dies From Injuries. Thrown From Motor Lorry
Sergeant Leonard Noel Conrad Adami, attached to the Denman troop of the 16th Light Horse Regiment which was in camp at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Be Constructed Sandy Hollow-Maryale Railway
In response to Mr. J. M. Baddeley's personal representations, on behalf of the Kearsley Shire Council urging that a start be made with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Smash at Camel Creek Fireman Found Buried in Mud
Strict secrecy is being maintained by officials about the train smash which occurred at Camel Creek, about 60 miles south of Alice Springs, early on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TRAIN Sixteen Men Killed C.P.R. Fatality Vancouver (B.c.), March 2
Sixteen workmen employed by, the Canadian Pacific Railway were killed when the tender of a locomotive was derailed at night near Revelstoke,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Passengers Marooned Flooded River in Central Australia. Flying Fox Constructed. Melbourne
Owing to the flooding of the Finke River, in Central Australia, 16 train passengers, together with a number of railway employees, have been marooned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Decrease E.M. Railway Revenue
Although the revenue for goods traffic showed a favourable increase for last month at the East Maitland railway station, there was a decrease…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Traffic on Railways a Record Year Experienced
Following closely on the quarterly report of the Commissioner for Railways, giving figures to December 31, 1935, the department has made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Embezzlement Charge Railway Porter Sentenced. Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions to-day George Augustus Hassell Armstrong, aged 45, a railway porter, was charged with embezzling £105, at Hornsby, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death on the Roads
Figures released by the Commissioner for Road Transport yesterday show that during January and February of this year 82…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lucky Escapes Train Strikes Tram Wickham Mishap Newcastle
Sixty passengers, comprising mainly Steel Works employees, remarkably escaped injury when a tram on which they wore returning, to Newcastle from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →82 DEATHS State's Road Toll SYDNEY
The serious increase in fatal road accidents will be the subject of a conference of traffic authorities to be convened by the Commissioner for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Primary Producers Must Look to Railways Primary Producers Hail Chief's Views Official Opening of Maitland Show a Large Attendance
"I am most anxious to assure the primary producer that the department has the friendliest feelings towards him and is most desirous of co-operating with him in every possible way," said the Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. T. J…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Convicted Railway Trespassers
Two men, Walter Reginald John Warden and Ray Lambert, who appeared before Messrs. M. J. D. Austin and A. Ribee, J's.P., at the West…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ACCIDENTS Old and New Motors Recent Figures Sydney
The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Maddocks) has had figures prepared, comparing accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Factory General Motors Holdens Premier's Praise
Last Wednesday the Premier of Victoria (Mr. Dunstan) placed the first concrete in position for the, new factory of General Motors-Holden's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Stock Bridge
The stock inspector also reported that he had attended a meeting of Bolwarra Shire Council regarding the stock bridge over the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show Train for Merriwa
A special train will be provided for Merriwa visitors to the Upper Hunter Show at Muswellbrook on the 26th inst. The excursionists will travel to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Marooned Train Passengers Rough Ride Over Hills
An Adelaide message states that after a very rough side, 17 passengers who had been marooned at Finke River crossing since last Saturday, owing to…
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