Failed to Return Expired Motor Registration Certificate
Ernest J. Freeman, 453 Dean st., Albury, did not appear at Albury Police Court yesterday to answer a charge of having failed to return a motor…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
1,604 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 81
Victorian Railway Dismissals Melbourne
A promise that he would place the representations of the speakers before a meeting of Cabinet was made by the Minister for Transport, Mr. Hyland,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Registered Mail DlSAPPEARS From Train Wellington (N.z.)
Five bags of registered mail disappeared from the Napier-Gisborne train last night. They vanished between Walroa and Gisborne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Fire in Kiewa Valley Tawonga Nearly Engulfed. Rough Mountain Country Ablaze. Roads Board Men Forced From Camp
Anxious days are confronting landholders in the upper Kiewa Valley at Tawonga, and on Monday the whole township was threatened by a bush fire, which swept along the foothills beneath the Tawonga Gap. At one stage the fire passed close to the Tawonga Hotel, but fighters…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Railway Excursions This Month
For the convenience of those who were unable to take advantage of the excursion trains run in connection with the Christmas and New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Safety the Four Absolutes
Here are what might be called the four "absolutes" for checking oneself in an effort to solve the human factor in the accident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Keeping Down Road Accidents in America
A sensible idea is being adopted gradually in U.S.A. of using public address loud speakers at sports stadia, with the object of appealing to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Border Railway Rates
The problems of border railway rates and of the unification of rail gauges will be brought before the Federal Cabinet when it meets in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flouting Traffic Laws Minister on Some Motorists
The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, said last week that motorists who wilfully flouted the traffic laws would be given no quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorists May Be Locked Up on the Spot Sydney
Twenty-one tracks, which are to be used to assist the police in their campaign to bring about greater road safety, win contain “cells,”…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dismissals to Stand Victorian Railways Decision Reached Yesterday Melbourne
After a conference to-day between the Premier (Mr. Du[?] Railways Commissioner and himself. the Minister for Transport (Mr. Hyland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Chief Catches Speeding Motorist Sydney
When the Commissioner for Police (Mr. Mackay) recently saw a motorist driving a car at a high speed along the Pacific Highway he gave chase in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sixteen Injured When Tram and Train Collide Sydney
Sixteen persons were injured, none seriously, when a tram collided with the trucks of a goods train in Balmain to-night. The majority of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Drive Road Safety Appalling Holiday Toll (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)
The appalling death toll of the road during the Christmas and New Year holidays has caused an awakening of public interest in the need for making…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Toll of the Road 600 Deaths in N.s.w. Last Year Further Safety Measures to Be Adopted
Figures issued front Sydney indicate that for the 12 months ended June 30, 600 people were killed and 8615 injured in road accidents in New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Level Crossing Crash. Tram Driver and Others Injured. SYDNEY
Sixteen persons, including the tram-driver, were injured last night when a Birchgrove-bound tram crashed into the side of empty goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven Killed in Railway Disaster Calcutta, Jan. 12
At least seven persons were killed and 49 injured when the Howrah-Dehre Don express was derailed. The five middle coaches overturned,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motorists May Have Cases Decided Through the Post! Sydney
To save the time of the police and offenders alike, the Minister for Justice (Mr. Martein), and the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heat Deaths Toll Mounts to 29 Riverina Scorched Yesterday Again Water Supplies Giving Out Railways Department to the Rescue SYDNEY, -Thursday
Further deaths were reported from the heat to-day, the victims being residents of country towns, where temperatures have exceeded the century for days past. In two days 29 people have collapsed and died, while hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Car Hits Electric Light Pole And Causes Minor Fire
When Mr. Gilbert Braim, manager of the Border Wool Company was driving his car around the S-bend in Young st. late on Wednesday evening it…
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