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Railways, roads & transport, 1936

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Railway Excursions for May School Holidays

The Independent · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 1
Also in The Corowa Free Press, The Pastoral Times

The Secretary for Railways, N.S.W., notifies that excursion trains will be run to and from Sydney for the bene­fit of scholars, teachers, parents and…

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Railway Excursions. For May School Holidays

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 2

The Secretary for Railways notifies that excursion trains will be run to and from Sydney for the benefit of scholars, teachers, parents and others…

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Motor Cyclist's Death Accident at Mulwala Evidence at Inquest

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 3

Describing to the Coroner (Mr. T. H. Wade) yesterday the injuries sustained by Joseph Harrison Roberts, who died at the Corowa Hospital on…

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Railway Excursion. for May School Holidays

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 3

The Secretary for Railways notices that Excursion trains will toe [?] to and from Sydney for the [?]enefit of scholars teachers parents…

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Road Contract

The Independent · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 3

The Windouran Shire Council invites tenders, closing at 11 a.m. on Friday. [?]…

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Road Motor Services Cabinet Completes Review

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 1

THE Victorian Cabinet on Tuesday completed its review, of decisions of the Transport Board respecting holders of transitory licences. Most of these…

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Train Murders in Queensland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 45

Police declared in evidence in the police court to-day that Herbert Kopit, aged 23 years, station haad, of Tiaiba, had confessed to the murder of two…

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Train Fired At. Blue Mountain Episode. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 2

When the afternoon mail train from Sydney reached Bathurst, yesterday, it was reported that a bullet had been fired through a Carriage window, near…

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The Train Murder. Prisoner Writes to Minister. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 1

Edwin John Hickey (17), who is to be hanged on May 14th, for the murder of the State Conciliation Commissioner, Montague Henwood, has…

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The Band Played, the Crowd Cheered, the Hikers Blushed Where Passengers Have to Push the Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 26

The Italians offered to present a statue ta the local church. and then the trouble started! To many people the Balkans is simply…

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Motors Exacting Driving Tests

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 28

The need for a very high standard of driving skill is most pronounced to-day, and it has been suggested that if the authorities in the various States…

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Railway Inconvenience on Border

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 4

The construction of a Victorian gauge line from the Albury railway station to the Albury trucking yards would be beneficial to the stock…

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Albury P.p. Board Travelling Stock by Motor Truck Application for Charges Exemption

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 31

A meeting of Albury Pastures Protection Board on Friday decided to make application to have Albury district gazetted exempting stock…

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Girl Killed Car Skidded Into Motor Cycle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 15

Miss Iris Lorna Walsh, 20 years, Richmond (Vic), went on a mush-rooming expedition riding pillion on her brother's motor cycle. As the…

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Motor 'Phones

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 18

Soon a business magnate touring on the Continent in his luxury car will be able when seized with a sudden brainwave, to snatch a telephone, at his…

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Toll of the Motor Woman Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 8

Miss Lilian MaudE Wiseman, 34, was killed and her father, Robert Crawford' Wiseman, 62, was critically injured when they were knocked down…

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Motor Traffic Act. Summonses for Breaches

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 2

In the Court of Petty Sessions, before the P.M. on Tuesday, a batch of summons cases under the Motor Traffic Act were heard…

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Motor Car Crash. Driver Killed; Others Injured. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 3

Alan Ford (20), was killed instantly, last night, when his motor car crashed into a telegraph pole in Victoria Road, Marrickville. Two…

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