Floods in the North Passenger Train Stranded Party Missing in Central Australia Brisbane
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 8
Washaways have held up the Mt. Isa train at Cloncurry and the 60 passengers are living on the train. Some are in poor circumstances and cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Pontiac Models Silver Arrow and Chieftain To be Shown by West’s Motors
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 2
This week Pontiac introduces two new lines of cars for 1939—the Silver Arrow and the Chieftain. They will be on display at West’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Delay in Renewing Motor Licences
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 4
For having failed to renew motor vehicle licences when they had expired, David K. Wise end McPherson Thomas were each fined 10/ and 8/…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Czecho-slovakia Building Costly German Motor Road London, February 20
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 5
The Prague correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company states that Czecho-Slovakia is spending £210,000 on a German motor road from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety. Vital Need [?] (Issued by the [?]
The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 4
Accidents [?] country towns at [?] and their [?] primary cause in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lad Killed When Alighting From Tram Motor Driver Acquitted Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 6
Charles Henry Reid. 20, a laborer, was acquitted at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of manslaughter arising out of the death of Oswald…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Used Motor Cycle Without Owner’s Consent Young Men Given a Chance Light Penalties in Court
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 3
“I feel very disinclined to give you a chance,” Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., at Albury, told two young men at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Crashes When Tram Driver Faints Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 4
Two trams were extensively damaged and passengers were thrown from their seats when a tram in Victoria st., Abbotsford, crashed into a station…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman’s Bods Found Shocking Mutilated Near Railway Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 3
Believed to have been struck by a train late last night, the body of Mrs. Lea Caroline McVeigh, 33, of Eastwood, was found cut to pieces near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Damaged In Albury Service Station Company to Pay Costs
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 3
Alleging that his car had been damaged while it had been left at [?] Tyre Service at the corner of Dean and David streets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Vital Need for Care
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 4
Accidents continue to happen in country towns and on main roads and their severity reveals that the primary causes in most of them are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canberra Women to Train for Emergency Canberra
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 5
A large public meeting of Canberra women’s organisations to-night appointed a committee of 30 to organise the compilation of a voluntary service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Cruelty Rabbit with Broken Leg Used to Train Dog Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 4
Evidence that a rabbit with a broken leg had been used to train a dog at Maroubra was given at the Central Police Court to-day when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road in Dean Street Put Down by the M.R.B. Ald. Logan Dissatisfied
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 2
A strong protest was made by Alderman Logan at the meeting of the Albury Council last night against the manner in which the Main Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preparing for Raids New Road for Wellington Evacuate People in Five Hours Wellington (N.z.)
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 6
Declaring that in the event of Wellington being bombed by enemy aircraft it would take five days to evacuate the population by one narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Help from the Air ! Lady Motorists's Dilemma
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 4
Help from the air came most unexpectedly to Mrs. Lawson (mother of Mr J. A. Lawson, M.L.A.,) recently, when, as she was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road to Railway Station
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 4
The old complaint that the road approach to Albury railway station is still in a shocking condition was made at a meeting of the Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Road Ru[?] Motorists’ Praise
The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 2
The announcement by the [?] for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, [?] that the “Halt, Major Road system is to be given a trial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work - Progressing on Wodonga Creek Bridge
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 8
The new stock bridge over the Wodonga creek is nearing completion. Top: The bridge spanning the creek. Bottom: A picture taken of workmen laying the deck[?]ing. The white strips running along the massive wooden bearers are of a special rubber composition to protect them from weather…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Corowa's Aerodrome Operations May Commence Within Four Months Large Number of Workers to Be Employed
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 5
Messrs. Gallop and Allan, of the Department of Works and Local Government, Sydney, were in Corowa on Wednesday last, and met His Worship…
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