Ex-railway Employe Loses Appeal Sydney
By unanimous verdict the High Court to-day upheld the claim by the Railway Commissioners that an employe found guilty of simple larceny had…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
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Runaway Youth Took Motor Cycle, Then a Motor Car
The adventures of a runaway youth from Adelaide were related in the Deniliquin Police Court yesterday afternoon when Keith Charles Rutherford…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Wind Blew Car Off Road” Melbourne
Police slated at the City Morgue to day that the high wind may have been the cause of the death of William Alfred Reay, 34, of Coronation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Motor Fuel Is Announced How It Is Produced
Many motorists appear to treat for too casually that very important and complex product commonly known as petrol, gasoline or benzine. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Courtesy
Car travelling should be made more pleasurable through the introduction of a new official spirit to help the people. It is lo he deplored that there has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Toll of the Road Five Week-end Deaths Woman Among the Dead SYDNEY
The week-end road loll was brought to five to-night when three victims of accidents died in hospital. Yesterday a man was killed at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Electrification of More Railway Lines Recommended by Experts Extension to Goulburn Suggested SYDNEY
Two overseas experts, Mr. B. E. Hellstom and Dr. A. F. Samsloe, have recommended to the State Government considerable extensions in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Struck by Tram Melbourne
Struck by a tram in Victoria road, Albert Park, on Saturday. Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, aged 67, of Page street, Albert Park, received injuries from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Aerodrome for Narrandera
Narrandera, one of the main connecting points of Ansett's Inter-State airline network, is establishing a new municipal aerodrome to take the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clearing the Aerodrome Site of Timber
Grubbed roots and knotty lumps of woods at the aerodrome site after the best lengths have been cut and removed to the abattoir for use in the boiler. Much of the rubbish is burned, but the best of the “left overs” no doubt would be most acceptable to the men who from the relief gangs improving the site…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cycling Notes Last Saturday's Road Race
A 7-mile road race was held on Saturday afternoon along the Rutherglen road. There were 13 starters the biggest field the local club has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hitler Leaves Rome in Bullet-proof Train Rome, May [?]
King Victor Emmanuel farewelled Herr Hitler to-day at the close of his visit to Rome. The Fuehrer left for Florence in a bullet-proof train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifting the Road Burden From Shires Sydney
It was the policy of the Main Rounds Department gradually to relieve the local authorities of the burden of keeping main traffic routes, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Corowa--urana Road Tar Surfacing Programme Mileage May Be Reduced
Because the revised estimates of the cost of tar surfacing and other improvements on portion of the Corowa Urana road from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inspector Was Hit Motorists Must Not be Snowballed Prosecutions in Future Melbourne
Inspector J. H. W. Salmon, after being snow-balled by holiday-makers at Mt Donna Buang, while on patrol yesterday, said to-day that those who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Pinned Beneath a Tram Sydney
A woman was planed beneath a tram for several minutes in the city this morning until a jack was secured and the tram lifted from her. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canberra and Albury New Motor Service
On Thursday night last a dinner was held at Canberra to inaugurate the new overland passenger service by motor coach between Canberra and Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twins Born in Aeroplane London. May 9
Twins were born dead to-day aboard an air ambulance in which their mother, Mrs. McLean, accompanied by a nurse, was being flown from an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pooley Bridge’s Programme Melbourne, Tuesday
Pooley Bridge, winner of the Grand National Hurdle raw- in 1936. and who fell last year -when a hot favourite, will again toe trained for the race…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Items of News Special Passenger Train
A special passenger express will leave Albury for Sydney to-morrow at 5.25 P.m.. and h will arrive in the city at 7.55. a.m. on Friday. The…
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