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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1941

19 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Country Roads Board Wages Can Be Garnisheed

Delegate Argus · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 3

Mr. Justice Lowe has ruled in a judgment in the Third Civil Court that wages of Country Roads Board…

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Railway Excursions in February

Delegate Argus · Thursday 30 January 1941 · page 2

Word has been received from the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, that the next general series of excursion trains…

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Railway Excursions in March

Delegate Argus · Thursday 20 February 1941 · page 2

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has decided that the next general series of excursion trains will be run…

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Railway Excursions in May Coinclding With School Holidays

Delegate Argus · Thursday 24 April 1941 · page 2

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has authorised a general series of excursion trains, to coincide as…

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Ambulance Girls Train for British Empire Duty

Delegate Argus · Thursday 22 May 1941 · page 4

A long pull and a strong pull by girls of the Women's Mechanised Transport Corps in Britain, members of a party of 58, training for Ambulance duties in Kenya…

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Victoria N.S.W. Motor Traffic

Delegate Argus · Thursday 22 May 1941 · page 3

From "Cooma Express" report of Snowy River Shire Council meeting of 13th inst.: Mr. W. W. Hedges, M.L…

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Railway Home Guards

Delegate Argus · Thursday 22 May 1941 · page 4

With fixed bayonets, their blue uniforms discarded for khaki, three railwaymen go on duty—to guard Britain's railways 200,000 of them have voluntarily come forward to keep a 24 hour watch on Britain's 20,000 miles of main and brunch…

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More Railway Excursions in June

Delegate Argus · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 2

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has approved a general series of excursion trains which will be tun…

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More Railway Excursions in July

Delegate Argus · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 2

Country residents will have shortly another opportunity for travel at reduced fares, the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J…

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Australians Train in Britain

Delegate Argus · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 4

These men showed, when training in Britain, that they could adopt themselves with equal readiness to European conditions…

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Preferred Horse to Motor Car

Delegate Argus · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 3

When asked at the Bairnsdale court yesterday what expenses he claimed, a young witness from Dargo, who had…

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Railway Excursions in August Coinciding with School Holidays

Delegate Argus · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 2

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has authorised a general series of excursion trains to coincide as…

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Ready for another call to action, the Czecho-Slovakian Squadron of the Royal Air Force waits at its aerodrome in Britain. Although only recently formed, they have, led by two British flight commanders, already had a number of victories over the German defilers of their homeland

Delegate Argus · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 4

Abyssinians have been burning for an opportunity of throwing off the rule of their hated Italian oppressors, and their resistance is swiftly growing. Abyssinians are now in training with the British forces in the Sudan. In this picture a British N.C.O. is giving instruction to Abyssinian troops in the use of an anti-tank gun…

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Store Railway Excursions in September

Delegate Argus · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 3

Country residents will have shortly another opportunity for travel at reduced fares. Word to that effect was received , from the Commissioner for…

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More Railway Excursions in October

Delegate Argus · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 3

Continuing the policy of providing country residents with an opportunity for travel at reduced fares once every month, the…

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From Engineer's Report. Bendock-clarkville Road

Delegate Argus · Thursday 16 October 1941 · page 4

I have discussed the matter of improvements to this road with officials of the Forests Commission, and think there is a…

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Official Correspondence Winchcombe Home, 52 Bridge Street, Sydney, 22nd Oct., 1941

Delegate Argus · Thursday 30 October 1941 · page 4

Dear Mr. Seiffert, I refer to your personal representations on behalf of Delegate Hospital in the matter of the…

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The Burma Road is China's Lifeline

Delegate Argus · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 4

Recent press reports have suggested that Japan it toying with the idea of attempting to end the five-year-old China incident by…

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Border Road Question of Route

Delegate Argus · Thursday 25 December 1941 · page 2

Snowy River Shire Council (N.S.W.) is making another attempt to obtain Federal assistance to complete the construction of…

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