Along the Road to Gundagai
There's a scene that lingers in my memory, Of an oil bush home and friend I long to see;…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
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Road Safety Campaign the Citizen's Responsibility
Much has been said and written to inculcate safety principles amongst road users, but the net result in the reduction of road accidents has not…
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A lighter, carrying 26,000 gallons of petrol was holed when it struck the Cook's River vehicular bridge. For a time it was feared that the river would…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →F. & S. Association Master Farmers' Competition Road Repairs Asked for
The monthly meeting of the Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Tuesday afternoon, presided over by Mr. K. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tol of the Road Fewer Accidents in N.S.W. For five Months’ Period SYDNEY
Deaths from road accidents in built [?]p areas in Sydney, New castle and country districts daring the [?] months, January to May,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Silver Dragon" on the German Railways
A new type of driving car is now being tried out on the German railways. It is the invention of a Hanover engineer Herr Kruchenberg, who…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Tragic Week-end Motoring Accidents and Fatalities Woman Killed; Child Injured
Mrs. Florence Jane Brunnell, 34 years, Narrabeen, was killed last Saturday night when she was thrown from a motor lorry when it collided with a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor Cyolist Crashes Into Truck
Walter Benson, 21 years, of Pomborheit, Ballarat district, was injured when he was riding a motor cycle along the Creswick-road, shortly after mid-…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Electrical Development in N.s.w. Power Scheme Outlay of £23,000,000 Railway Proposals
The report on electrical development in New South Wales by Messrs. Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, consulting engineers, of…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Squeezing Motorists
Petrol is now taxed 9d, a gallon in England. An additional 1d, has also been placed on oil fuel, and there is a new tax of 9d, on power alcohol. The…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Motoring Speed Limit and Drivers
An appeal to motorists not to permit any irritation they might feel over the 30 m.p.h. speed limit restrictions to affect their conduct on the road, is…
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The P.M. heard a batch of summons cases under the Motor Traffic Act on Tuesday morning. H. L. Austin was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Girl Killed. Motoring in Arizona. Los Angeles
Peggy Murray, of Sydney, was killed, and her companion, Patricia Tebbutt (19), of Sydney was gravely injured when their car overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck by a Tram. Man Shockingly Injured. SYDNEY
Struck by a tram in Miller Street, North Sydney, last night, Ernest Foote was shockingly injured, and later had both his legs amputated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways That Have Not Been Constructed Were Authorised 23 Years Ago. [?] with the City Sydney
The Commissioner for Railways: (Mr. [?]) said to-day that the Act passed in 1915 actually [?] only the construction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Naval Ratings and Overseas Mail at Railway
A [?] of 150 naval ratings travelling from Melbourne to Sydney will pass through Albury to-night. In addition. Albury station hands will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Speed Limit Parliament to Decide SYDNEY
The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, said to-day that he would leave to Parliament to say whether the 30 miles per hour speed limit for motor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Official Correspondence Balranald-euston Road
Mr. J. A. Lawson, M.L.A., has forwarded us the following correspondence which he has received from the Secretary of the Department of M[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Football Mangoplah—Cookardinia Match Postponed Rovers and Wagga Road Play in Albury
The match between Mangoplah and Cookardinia which was to have been played at Mangoplah to-day, has been postponed on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motorists Miss Death at Jindera Gap : New North Albury Church Hall
Top Left: Messrs. George Webb and Joe Spalding, of Lavington, narrowly missed death when their truck plunged over, the edge of this bridge at t he hairpin bend at the foot of Jindera Gap. This picture was taken shortly after the accident. Top Right: The inevitable interest of small boys in workmen and excavations was not missing when repairs to a broken telegraph line in Olive st. were being effected on Thursday. Bottom Left: The new Church of England Parish Hall in North Albury which will be opened by Dr. Burgmann, Bishop of Goulburn, on Mon day (See story elsewhere in this issue)…
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