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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1935

2,093 stories in Murray's papers · page 34 of 105

Training Horses for Farm or Road Work Development of a Fast, Even Walk

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 3

In farm or road work the fast, even walking horse covers more miles in a day than one of erratic gait. It is not only a pleasure to sit behind a fast…

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Accident After Funeral Petrol Lorry and Motor Car Collide Auckland

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 3

When a petrol lorry and a motor car collided at Taupo, Hugh Gillies, 19, a prominent athlete. was killed, and four occupants of the motor car,…

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Lorry and Motor Car Collide Case in Albury Police Court Common Informer Cannot Prosecute

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 2

On the information of Gregory Booth, of Albury, mill manager, Robin McDonald, of Lavington, near Albury, was charged with that being…

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Racing Motorist Killed Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 5

An inquiry into the death of Leslie James Cram[?] 24, process engraver, of Vickery Street, Bentleigh, who received fatal injuries when his…

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Ballast Train Derailed

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 4

A ballast train was derailed near [?] on the Urana line yesterday. No serious damage was caused and no one was injured. Traffic, however,…

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Diggers Incensed Will Board Train, is Challenge Anzac Day Mix-up Leeton

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 1

Incensed at the refusal of the Railway Department to alter arrangements for transporting returned soldiers to Sydney for Anzac Day celebrations…

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A Fatal Collision Bicycle and Motor Car Lavington Resident Killed Accident in Mate Street

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 1

Jack Meades, 30, laborer at Hume Reservoir, was killed when his bicycle struck a motor car, when returning to his home at…

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Car and Tram Collide Three Men Injured Two Seriously Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 1

When a motor car and a tram collided with great force in King street, St. Peters, this afternoon three men were injured, two seriously…

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Victorian Railways Writing Sown Capital Government’s Proposal Criticised MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 5

The justice of writing off £30,000,000 of railway capital was questioned today by Mr. F. W. Eggleston, former Minister for…

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Tasmanian Railways Preference to Unionists to Operate Hobart

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 5

In accordance with its election promises, the Government has decided to introduce the principle of preference to unionists in the Tasmanian…

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Award for Railwaymen Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 8

About 23,000 railway and tramway workers employed in daily paid wage grades are affected by an award issued by Judge Drake Brockman…

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Ex-soldiers Annoyed Train Facilities to Sydney Anzac Day “Invasion”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 5

Considerable dissatisfaction exists among returned soldiers as to the method employed by the Railways Department following…

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Motor Show Abandoned Owing to Rain

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 3

Owing to the heavy rain on Friday night and Saturday, the motor show which was to have been staged at Jerilderie on Saturday…

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Trammen’s Wages And High Court’s Judgment Transport Chief to Appeal Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 1

The Commissioner for Road Transsport and Tramways to-day took action to contest the ruling of the High Court that deductions of tramway…

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Aeroplane Mishaps Forced Landing at Culcairn

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 5

A [?]evesd landing was made by the pilot of an aeroplane at Culcairn late on Tuesday afternoon, after he had been flying between Culairn and…

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Fatal Plane Crash At Werribee Aerodrome. Pilot Egerton Killed. Melbourne

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 4

While the pilot desperately tried to free his parachute, the Air Force Wapiti plane, with one wing broken loose and folded back against the…

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Leeton Diggers' Threat to Board Monday's Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 5

Incensed at the refusal of the Railway Department to alter the arrangements for transporting returned soldiers to Sydney for the…

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News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. North African Roads

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 28

The Governor of Italian Libya, Marshal Balbo, has been given instructions by Mussolini to build new coast roads to join Tunis and Egypt…

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Two Men Killed Motor Cycle Crashes Into Tram

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 33

Travelling at high speed, and apparently unaware of the presence of the tram, two motor cyclists . were tilled in Sydney when their cycle…

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East-west Railway South Australia May Accept New Plan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 2

Despite the opposition which has been expressed in South Australia to the Commonwealth Government's alternative proposal for eliminating one…

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