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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1936

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Motoring News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Car Radio Not Dangerous

The Independent · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 1

Special investigations have been made by the Paris police department into the question, of whether or not wireless on cars affects the…

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Railway Revenue Increase of $280. During February

The Independent · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 4

Revenue received by Deniliquin railway station during February showed an increase of £280, compared with the corresponding…

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Letter Bridge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 21

Using the methods of this game, you can perform many surprising changes. HEAT can be changed to COLD in four changes, as follow:—…

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Motor Accident Van Overturns on Hay Road

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 1

A motor van owned and driven by Mr. Pearl, a mabufacturer of sweets, of Colliogwood (Vic), overturned on the Hay road, a few…

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Rand-corowa Road

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 19

In a letter to Mr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., dealing with the application to have a route from Hopefield or Balldale to the Walbundrie-Daysdale…

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Retaining Bridge for Interstate Stock

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 19

Albury Pastures Protection Board forwarded, a copy of a letter sent to tho Ministers for Public Worts in N.S.W. and Victoria, in regard to…

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Elderly Man Run Down by Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 47

When stepping across the railway line at Shepparton (Vic.) station atncon on Tuesday, Alfred Philips, 72 years, of North Shepparton, was…

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Culcairn Shire Council Appointment of Engineer Cadet Tenders for Bridge Timber

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 4

There was a full attendance of Councillors at the monthly meeting of the Culcairn Shire Council on Monday, with the excep-tion of Cr. Lindner, from whom an apology was received. Four applications were received for the position of Engineer's…

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Motor Cars Make Work —For Science

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 27

Who makes a motor car comfortable? Not merely the mechanical engineer. Nor the physicist and chemist who produce the metals,…

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Motors Precision in Repairs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 28

Despite its dependability, the modem car is a highly complicated collection of mechanism, and the repairing and overhauling of various…

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Motor Vehicles Not Licensed Melbourne Firm Fined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 12

In the Wagga Police Court on Monday, before Mr. V. H. Wells, P.M., O. Gilpin Ltd., of Melbourne, was charged under the Transport Co-ordination Act…

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Motorist Fined Delayed Renewing Regis Tration

The Independent · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 3

For having failed to return an expired certificate of registration of a motor vehicle, Charles W. Tasker was fined 10/, with 8/ costs, in Deniliquin…

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Wheel Leaves Motor Car

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 3

There was some excitement at the interesection of East and Bolton streets, Narandera, on Monday afternoon, when a motor car travelling down the street…

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AIR - Conditioning on Australian Railways Installed in Trans-Continental Tram

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 21 March 1936 · page 4

Mr. Geo. A. Gahan, the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner, who has just returned to Melbourne after an official visit of inspection at Port…

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Uniform Railway Gauge Standardisation and Modernisation of Railways

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 21 March 1936 · page 4

Extract from report of Sir Fred-crick Stewart, M.P., laid on the table of the House of Representatives a Canberra on 13th March, 1936. (Sir…

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Road Tranport

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 2

At the Graziers' Conference a resolution from Hay Branch. That the coordination and supervision of all transport facilities should become a…

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Our Daily Train Service Commences on April 6

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 3

We understand that everything is being got in readiness, under the new time-table for a daily train service on the Corowa line, for the first…

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The Man Who Told the Truth About Toll of Road

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 2

It as rather a coincidence that, at a time when the alarming increase in motor accidents is receiving prominence, we should be visited by the writer of the most discussed and the most famous article that has ever been written on the toll of the road—J. C…

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Ford Motor Plant

The Independent · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 2

Production has already commenced at the new plant at Lidcombe of the Ford Motor Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. and the first car has already…

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Motoring News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. 2,300,000 Car Radios

The Independent · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 1

The total number of raido-equipped cars in the United States is about 2,300,000. During 1935 no fewer than 1,100,000 car radio sets were…

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