The Cross-Roads
United national effort was recently asked by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in an appeal to Australians. Another notable Sydney man, in a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
412 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 21
Road Accidents Decline
In the first quarter of 1941 road accidents in country towns and rural areas declined by 24,2 per cent., from 578 in the first three months of 1940…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven South American Railways Are Using British Brakes
Up-to-date apparatus for brakes and signalling have been dispatched from the Westinghouse works at Chippenham, England, to several of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Tickets Must not be Transferred
We have received the following from the Secretary for Railways: Recently an advertisement appeared in a New South Wales newspaper…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bicycles and Motor Cycles--£41,000,000 British Makers Celebrate a Jubilee
The makers of British bicycles and motor cycles, whose Union has just completed fifty years work, have sent £41,000,000 worth of their products…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bren Gun Carrier Crashes Through Bridge Near Bathurst One Killed--Two Injured
One young man, 23 years of age, was killed instantly, another critically injured, and a third seriously injured on Saturday when a Bren…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cowra Road
Miss Bertha Pontt, of Young, has been visiting the district us the guest of Mrs. Roy Brown. We are glad to report that Mrs. W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Ostrich Of The Road (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
we laugh at the ostrich because he pokes his head in the sand when there is danger ahead. But how very like the ostrich is the man who pulls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl Seriously Injured Struck by Car on Orange Road
Following an accident which occurred on the Orange Road, about one and a half miles from town, late on Wednesday afternoon, Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Railway Excursions In June
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, Las approved a general series of excursion trains which will be run in the second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cowra Road. Empire Day Celebrations
On Friday, 23rd May, the children, together with some of the parents and friends, gathered at North Brundah School and took purl in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East-west Road
The Government has decided that the important work of re-conditioning the East-West road between Port Augusta and approximately Norseman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Railway Excursions in June
The commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has approved a general series of excursion trains which will be run in the second week of June…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Accidents Pile Up Again
Seven persons are known to have been killed and scores injured in road accidents in New South Wales during last week-end. These are only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car Hits Post On South Condobolin Road
Mr. W. Curteis, Agricultural Instructor of Forbes, had a lucky escape just after nightfall on Wednesday when the car he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DISTRACTION Big Cause of Smashes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Most of us can remember the tune when motorists involved in an accident lost their temperts and heatedly accused each other of being the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motorists Corner. Official R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon" Reprieve!
My little "jay-walking episode has ended happily, and I am now free from the shadow of gaol. Fortunately, the Police Superintendent of…
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The P.P. Boards' Conference carried a Condobolin motion that the Act and Local Government Act he amended to allow local governing…
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