Tram Driver’s Dread Feared Traffic—Took Life Had Been a Mental Patient Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 August 1934 · page 1
A tram driver employed by the Tramways Board. Francis Arthur Barker, 44, a returned soldier, dreaded city traffic, according to his wife, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diesel Motor Trains Tender Let for Engines More Speed Is Aim Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 August 1934 · page 1
The delivery of the first two engines of the fast Diesel motor trains for use on country branch lines will probably be made by the contractors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railways Improvements Money to be Made Available Commissioner’s Announcement Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 August 1934 · page 1
The Commissioner for Hallways (Hr. Hartigan) to-night said the Government had made available £800,000 for expenditure, on railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclist Seriously Hurt Struck by Motor Lorry Police Investigating Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 August 1934 · page 3
Ernest Snell, 24, of Ingleburn, was seriously injured at Campbelltown tonight. According to the story related to the police, Snell was riding his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Items of News Aerodrome for Albury Suggested
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 2
The suggestion that Albury should furnish itself with an aerodrome through the avenue of unemployment relief moneys, was made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Campaign of Tree Planting Improving Appearance of Roads Main Roads Board to Help
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 3
The Department of Main Roads has taken a further important step towards the appearance of roads in the State, by embarking on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxi “War” Ending Standard Rates Likely Road Chief Intervenes SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 1
The end of the taxi cab fate “war” is in sight, as a result of an announcement by the Commissioner for Road Transport…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Traffic Growing in Middle East
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 5
The automobile is ousting the camel on the routes to Mecca and other age-old desert tracts, and the growth of motor traffic in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Break of Railway Gauge
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 3
Wagga "Daily Advertiser" states: "The importance of solving the problem of the break in the railway gauge cannot be overstated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.E. TRANSPORT Operators Seek Licences Railway Opposition MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 1
Applications for licences to transport general merchandise between Melbourne and north-eastern centres were heard before the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trespassers on Railways One Had Two Broken Legs Men Before Albury Court
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 3
John Harris, 10, William Leo Russell, 16, Norris Nicholls, 18, and George Watson 64, when charged at the Albury Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorist Injured When Car Somersaults
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 2
Mr. Bertie Lodd, 54 of West street, North Sydney, suffered two fractured ribs when his car overturned a short distance north from Holbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railwaymen’s Wages Little Chance of Full Restoration Judge’s Comments Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 2
During the hearing of the protracted railway case to-day. Judge Drake Brockman said it would be wrong if by giving railway men more liberal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waterloo Bridge
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 32
Critics who held that nine years was a long time in which to determine whether Waterloo bridge (London) should be reconstructed or…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Cattle Crossing Bridge
The Independent · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 2
Though it may not be generally known it is a fact that when cattle are to be crossed over the river bridge on the main road, the drover…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heard But Could Not See the Aeroplane Tumbarumba
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 20
Dear Uncle,—I was very pleased to see my last letter in print. We have a little lamb, and I should like you to please give it a name. It has rained…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Special Train for the Show
The Independent · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 6
For the convenience of exhibitors of live stock, etc., and visitors to the Deniliquin Show on Wednesday next, a special train has been chartered by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aeroplane Disaster Dr. Van Der Leeuw Killed Body Found in African Jungle Capetown
The Independent · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 6
The body of Dr. J. J. Van Der Lecuw, who was killed when his Machine crashed while flying from East Rhodesia to Tanganyika, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motoring News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Traffic Offences
The Independent · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 1
The criminal statistics for England and Wales recently published show that 45 per cent of all convictions were for traffic offences—thus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Energy Analyser
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 38
Motorists, and particularly operators of truck and car fleets, will be interested in a new device that has recently been imported from America…
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