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Railways, roads & transport, 1939

1,604 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 81

. Hoardings on Roads M.R.B. to Retain Control Cabinet Will Not Interfere Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 2

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) stated to-night that Cabinet had decided not to interfere with the control over outdoor advertising now exercised by the…

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Sklling a Motor Car. Putting Him in His Place

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 4

Yesterday I went with a friend lo referee the purchase of a new car. beautiful lad with varnished [?] and ivory hands greeted us, and…

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Aerodrome For Corowa

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

Mr. C. B. Lethbridge, M.L.A., has been informed by the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner) in regard to assisting Corowa…

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Alderman Criticises Road Surface in Dean Street

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

Ald. S. M. Logan asked at a meeting of the Municipal Council last evening if the road surface put down in Dean street by the Main Roads Department…

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Train Derailed Tears Up Track For 75 Yards Struck Repair Plant Gosford

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

The permanent wav for two miles north of Ourimbah was torn up for 75 yards when ah engine tender and four carriages of the north-west mail…

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Judgment on Motorists "80 Per Cent. Good, 20 Per Cent. Bad"

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 3

During a visit to Bathurst, the commissioner for road transport (Mr. J. N. Neale) said that 80 per cent of the motorists did not…

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Vapor Locks in Motors Caused by Heat a Simple Remedy

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 3

A common cause of mechanical holdups attended to by N.R.M.A. patrols, particularly in the country, is a conditions little known by…

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Aerodrome for Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

Mr. C. B. Lethbridge, M.L.A., has received the following letter from Mr. E. S. Spooner, Minister for Works and Local Government:--…

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Trawler Picks Up Aeroplane Fabric Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 8

Tattered strips of diver-coated [?] thought to be from the wings of an aeroplane, were found [?]gled in a trawling net north of [?]…

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Boring on Howlong Road Reserve

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

Boring for water on the Howlong road reserve at Balidale has proved a failure to date. The Coreen Shire Council is having a bore put down…

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North-west Train Services Resumed Gosford

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

Workmen to-day replaced the engine and four carriages of the North-West mail train, which was derailed two miles north of Ourimbah yesterday,…

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F. and S. Association Trunk Road 57 Condemned Presentation of Trophy

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 6

There was a good attendance at the first monthly meeting for the year of members of the Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on…

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Henty Progress Association the Rock—henty Road Help for Bush-fire Sufferers

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 6

There was a good attendance of members of the Henty Progress Association on Monday evening, presided over by Mr. T. L. Selk (president)…

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Big Truck Hits Train Through Gates at 50 m.p.h. Driver’s Terrible Death Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 8

In a sensational [?] a six-whetted semitrailer, loaded with 10 tons of sand, crashed at [?] miles an hour through railway gates at Arden…

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A Baronet Killed. In Motor Accident at Manilla

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 4

Sir Hussey Fairlie-Cunningham, fourteenth baronet, of Robertsland. Ayrshire, who for 8 years has been a farmer in the Manilla district, was…

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Sensational Smash. At Railway Crossing. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

In a sensational smash last night, a six-wheeled semi-trailer, loaded with ten tons of sand, crashed at 50 miles an hour through railway gates at…

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N.s.w. Railway Rates Fares and Freights to Go Up on March 1

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

Suburban and counutry railway passenger fares are to be increased by 10 per cent as from March 1 next. Freights on certain classes of goods…

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Motor Sales Buoyant 1938 Another Big Year Interesting Survey

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 3

Few motorised countries throughout the world maintained in 1938 their sales figures in new cars and commercial vehicles for 1937. Australia was one of the few exceptions—the people of the Commonwealth purchasing 79,281 new automobiles during the year 1938, as compared…

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Railway Board Considers Complaints of Albury Casual Workers

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

The Board of Reference of the N.S.W. Railways Commission visited Albury on Wednesday to inquire into the conditions of casual…

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Help From the Air! Lady Motorist’s Dilemma

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

HELP from the air came most unexpectedly to Mrs. Lawson (mother of Mr. J. A. Lawson, M. L. A.) on Monday afternoon, when as she was driving…

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