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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1929

700 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 35

Car Overturned Near Corowa Motorist's Lucky Escape

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 April 1929 · page 3

On Saturday evening last, while driving himself home in a single-seater Chrysler, which he had borrowed from Mr. Tony Williams, of Corowa;…

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The Motor Death Roll in U.S.A. A Week-End Total. New York

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 1

At least 38 persons were killed and scores injured in motor accidents during the past week-end. The most serious accident in a local district was…

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Last Year's Motor Casualty List. Sydney, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 3

During last year, 332 persons were killed and 7.124 injured in motor accidents in New South Wales. In the metropolitan area alone, 179 were…

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Motor Notes. Primer and Auxiliary Air Valve

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 4

A convenient means of priming the engine may be made by tapping the upper side of the intake manifold and extending a tube from the manifold…

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Railway Clerk Assaulted Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 2

William James Endycott, 16, clerk at MacDonladtown railway station was found lying last night in a [?] conscious condition in the [?]…

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Motor Thefts Amazing Figures

The Pastoral Times · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 4

According to reports made to the police there has been an amazing increase in the number of thefts of motor vehicles recently…

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Progressive Benanee Various Advances Made Railway Extension Badly Needed

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 1

A very large number of renders of "Sunraysia Daily" are interested in "what's doings" in the Benanee dry farming area on the New South Wales…

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Euston to Lette Railway Work to Be Pushed on

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 3

Impressed with the urgent need for relief measures to aid the large number of unemployed men in the Robinvale Euston district on the Murray,…

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Expenditure on Roads The Country’s Share

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 3

The Minister for local Government Lieut.-Col. the Hon. M. F. Brux[?] states that considerable Brisap[?] on appeared to exist in…

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Is Corowa Doomed? No Action to Be Taken Regarding Rand Line Railway Bridge to be Advocated

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 3

A large number of Corowa people, representative of most of the business concerns in Sanger-street, met at the Literary Institute, on Thursday evening last, in response to an advertisement which appeared in the "Free Press," last week…

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Fitznead's Mud Roads Compliment From Lady De Chair

The Independent · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4

Shire Councils, [?] and the public generally have for the past three years been [?] in their praise of the "mud" roads in the…

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Rand-corowa Road Discussed by Representative Shires

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 3

A meeting convened by Urana Council in connection with a proposed developmental road from Rand to Corowa, was held at…

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Austral Pictures. Wednesday, May 8, 1929 "The Road to Romance" and "The Wheel of Chance"

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 3

Two well-known screen favourites will be seen in two pictures of special merit at Austral Pictures on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening. Ramon…

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Railway Employees. Proposed Revision of Award. SYDNEY, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

The Railway Commissioner of New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania intend, during the present week, to serve logs on their employees…

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Motor Accident Car Driven into River Occupants’ Lucky Escape

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 2

A Falcon motor-car, owned and driven by J. Lockhart, who was accompanied by another man from Kyalite, was travelling down River…

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Looking for Work Man’s Long Tramp

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4

After tramping hundreds of miles in Victoria and South Australia in a desperate and unsuccessful search for work, John Ball, of Ross Street…

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Nowranie Railway League

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Messrs E. D. O’Dwyer and M. J. O’Neill attended the Riverina Developmental League’s annual conference in Wagga on 2nd inst…

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Nowranie Railway League

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

A deputation from the above league waited on the Victorian Minister for Railways at Oaklands recently to urge that the…

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Blighty Railway. Meeting of League. the Guarantee Question

The Independent · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

At a meeting of the executive of the Deniliquin Blightly Railway. L[?] yesterday it was decided to ask the Victorian Minister to send a fine…

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Country Edition Telegrams. the Railway Hours. Statement by Commissioners. SYDNEY. Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

A statement issued on behalf of the Railway Commissioners regarding the report that a ballot was being taken among the employees, on…

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