Empire Air Scheme Officers From Britain. Will Train Australians
Many officers in specialist categories are now in Australia on loan from -the Royal Air Force to assist in the carrying out of Australia's part in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1940
498 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 25
Scheme to Train Women. for Primary and Secondary Industries
The Women's Auxiliary of the National Defence League is formulating a scheme to train women to fill places in primary and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →200 Causes of Accidents. Excessive Speed Heads List. Careless Pedestrian A Menace. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
The question has often been asked: What is the most serious cause of the deaths in road accidents? Actually there are more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enlistments of Railway Units
The enlistment of five railway units comprising 931 officers and men started on April 1. The units comprise a headquarters railway construction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Soldiers Killed In Motor Accident
Two members of the 2nd A.I.F., John McLean (aged 19 years) and Garnet Smith (aged 18 years) were billed when returned to camp near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Railway Services. Affects of Coal Strike. No Trains Wednesday or
The New South Wales Department of Railways has been forced to conserve existing supplies of coal, and, as a result, Condobolin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Closing of Mails Through Train Alterations
About the only outgoing mail matter affected by the altered running of the trains in consequence of the coal strike is that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cowra Road
Farmers were thankful to receive a splendid fall of rain last week, registrations of about two inches being general…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Services Curtailed
Commencing yesterday until further notice the State's train services have been curtailed. A rail motor will leave Cowra for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Rules for Bridge
Pick up your cards, one by one as dealt; you will then be ready to bid ahead of the others. When you have a poor hand, signal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Road Is Danger
On the evidence of the road accidents figures for the first few months it is likely that 1940 will go down in history as the year in which accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. First French Motor Road
The Rou:o de I'Ouest, the great French motor road, now ia course of construction, will soon be open to traffic. A party of journalists from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Services Drastic Curtailments Effect of Coal Strike
Owing to the coal strike; drastic curtail[?]nts of train services have been made throughout the State. The daily train to West Wyalong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mechanical Spiders. Weave Steel Web. £1,600,000 Indian Bridge
The £1,600,000 Howrah bridge now being built by British engineers at Calcutta carries the third largest cantilever span--1,500 ft.-- in the world,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Services Reduced Again
Beginning to-day still further reductions have had to be made in the train service between Parkes and Ivanhoe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further Train Restrictions Altered Mail Services
Further restrictions in regard to the N.S.W. train services have caused alterations in the running of the Forbes "mixed" between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tall Order Repair Road 25 Miles Long
A letter from Mr. E. A. Wilder, Hon[?]rary Secretary of the West Wyalong Progress Association, which was ta[?] [?] at the monthly meeting of Bland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three New Schools To Train Pilots Nartomine. Wagga [?] (By Wire) Sydney
The Minister for Air, (Mr. Fairburn) announced last night that three new flying schools, under the Fmpire Air Scheme, are to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cowra Road
In common with all other parts of this district this locality has had another very beneficial fall of rain, the general registration for the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Entire Railway Train Removed in 8 Minutes
Setting a tracklaying record by methods which combined railroading experience with motion picture ingenuity, a film company moved an…
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