Victorian Aeroplane Accident. Victim Succumbs to Injuries. MELBOURNE
Miss Kathleen Charleston, one of the victims of the aeroplane accident at Smeaton, Victoria, yesterday, succumbed to her injuries some hours…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1930
825 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 42
Mail Train Robbery Guard and Escort Dismissed
It has been ascertained that two railway employees who were on the kludges mail train on the night of April 8, when it was robbed by armed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Prisoners Escape With Long Term. From Road Gang, at Beechworth. MELBOURNE, Tuesday Wight
Three long-sentence prisoners escaped from a gang which were repairing a road near Beechworth Gaol, yesterday afternoon, and made for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tragedy Ends Motor Race
Tragedy ended the attempt of two youths to break the Sydney to Melbourne motor car record on Monday. Both were killed when the car crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Motors Testing Petrol Consumption
It is often found that the petrol consumption gradually increases, there being no apparent reason for this, although the carburettor float is found to…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Cheaper Coal Railways Get 13 Per Cent. Reduction
The Railway Commissioners have accepted tenders for the supply of coal from Western and South Coast mines which show a fall in the price of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railways Safeguarding Public Assets
"REPRESENTING an expenditure of £118,000,000 of public money, the New South Wales railways must be placed on a paying footing in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Emus and Dingoes Taxation of Motor Vehicles Graziers' Requests
A deputation representing the New South Wales Graziers' Association waited on the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) on several matters of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Policy
THE State Government displayed common sense in removing from the Amending Railway Bill the clause proposed to impose an extra fifty per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Taxes £4,201,646 Revenue in One Year
In a statement presented to the Public Accounts Committee, which is inquiring into Tasmania's disabilities, by the Commonwealth Director-General…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rationing Railway Work. Four Day's Idleness. SYDNEY
Owing to slackness of work, the locomotive and carriage shops at Eveleigh, Newcastle, and Clyde repair siding will be closed all this week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rationing Railway Work. The Reason Explained. SYDNEY, Friday Noon
Chief Railway Commissioner Cleary addressing the National Council of Women, said it would be much move economical for the department to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Workshops Adopt "Rationing." Sydney, Thursday Night
The ballot which has just been completed of the railway workshops shows an overwhelming majority in favour of rationing of work as against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Clerk Attacked. Melbourne, Thursday Night
While working in the booking office at the Fawkner railway station, last night, a porter, Daniel O'Keefe (20), was attacked by a man who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cars Collide
When Mr. I. J. Lieschke, of AimaPark, was motoring home from Albury, through Burrumbutton, last week, his car collided with a car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways Organise Tour to Central Australia
THE sixteen tourists who will leave Adelaide on June 22 for the relatively unknown heart of our continent, will see the wonders of this part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charcoal for Motor Fuel (To the Editor)
Sir,—Writing in a recent issue of the "Pastoral Review," Mr. Paul Wenz famous not only here but abroad, says that australians are now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Smash at Hawkesbury. Kempsey Train Crashes into Fall of Rock. SYDNEY, Tuesday Noon
A train smash occurred near Haw-kesbury River station, early this morning, when a crowded Kempsey passenger train, bound for Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Why Motor Tyres Die Young Hints for Motorists
All tyres are constructed to carry a certain maximum weight; the total weight of the car and its passengers being distributed among the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALBURY & DISTRICT Railway Bridge at Albury
The Railway Commissioners have accepted the offer of the Albury Council to provide £10,000 towards the cost of in overhead railway bridge, and the…
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