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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1933

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S.a. Railways Deficit Lower

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 47

The report of the S.A. Railways Commissioner shows a reduction of the railway deficit by 24 per cent. compared with last year. Compared with…

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The Right of Way When Motoring

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 47

Pleading guilty for Owen Dally on a charge of failing to give way to traffic On the right, Mr. G. M. Stedman stated that most motorists were under…

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Albury Police Court Sheep in Motor Lorry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 47

The first prosecution of its kind was heard at Albury on Monday, when Edward Harrison La Fontaine was charged with conveying sheep without…

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Motors Unusual Coincidental Faults

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 28

The quick and accurate diagnosis of roadside troubles always demands clear thinking and some power of imagination; yet even the best of…

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Commonwealth Railways Improved Live Stock Tratfic Longest Passenger Runs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 19

The Commonwealth Railways Commissioner (Mr. George A. Gaha), who has just returned from a visit to Port Augusta, announced that traffic on…

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More Motor Vehicles

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 12

The upward trend in motor-vehicle registration's which has been evident in New South Wales since June last year still continues. According to…

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Alleged Larceny. From Motor Coy's Office

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 4

At the Court of Petty Sessions, before the P.M., Mr. Johnstone, on Tuesday, William Michael Gallagher was charged for that on the 23rd…

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Concessions Withdrawn. By Railway Department. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 1

A statement which has been issued by the Railway Department announced that owing to the general improvement in conditions and to…

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Crash Into River. Motor Driver's Escape. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 3

Crashing through the gate of the vehicular ferry on the Manning River, at Tinonee, to-day, a huge petrol waggon, loaded with over 500 gallons of…

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Railway Picnic

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 5

The annual picnic of the Southern District Railways will be held in Corowa on Monday, October 16. Corowa people rightfully feel…

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Motoring Fatality. Inquest Into Broadford Smash Truck Driver Committed on Manslaughter Charge

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 5

An inquest was held at the Melbourne City Morgue on Tuesday into a collision between a heavily laden motor truck and the Corowa…

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Competing Railways Riverina Traffic Concessions

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 2

A message from Albury states that although there is considerable sympathy for the effort being made by the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr…

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Daily Motor Service Starting Next

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 1

The Great Northern Motor Service (Mr. W. G. Perrow, proprietor) announces that, commencing from Tuesday next, the motor service between…

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Road Transport

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 2 September 1933 · page 1

Mr. J. A. Lawson, M.L.A., has received the following letter from Mr. Maddocks, Commissioner of Road Transport:—…

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Fatal Train Accident. Football Excursionists. a South African Fatality. Cape Town

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 September 1933 · page 3

Seventy were killed and nine injured, when an accident occurred to a train conveying excursionists to witness the fourth Rugby League Test in…

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Motor 'Bus Overturns. Grafton District Accident. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 September 1933 · page 3

Twenty people were injured, four seriously, when a motor bus conveying a picnic party overturned near Grafton on Saturday…

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Tramp Who Was a "Trap"

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 September 1933 · page 2

Some time ago a tramp wandered along Victoria road, West Ryde (near Sydney), and pitched his tent on a vacant block of land close to the main…

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Railway Conversion League Encouraging Report from Deputation

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 September 1933 · page 3

The President of the Tocumwal-NarandCra Railway Conversion League (Cr. M. D. Horgan) presented an encouraging report to a meeting of the Executive on Saturday last, in regard to the reception accorded the deputation that recently waited upon the Minister for…

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The Latest in Trains a Motor Worm Joins the Iron Horse

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 September 1933 · page 4

A giant worm skimming along the ground at 110 miles on hour. That's how it might appear to the astonished beholder getting…

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Taken to Hospital in Aeroplane Man with Fractured Spine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 14

Russel Napper, aged 22 years, one of 20 persons who were injured when a motor-lorry overturned near Maclean (North Coast) on Saturday afternoon,…

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