Heavy Sentences for Country Store Raids Four Men Are Gaoled Judge on Misuse of Motor Cars Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 November 1939 · page 5
Substantial sentences, ranging from one year to five years’ gaol, were imposed by Judge Magennis in General Sessions to-day on four men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers to Be Used to Break Strike Ultimatum to Railway Employes Union's Threat of a General Tie-up Darwin
Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1939 · page 4
"It military action is taken the union will declare a general strike immediately," said Mr., J A. McDonald, secretary of the North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Mile Jump From an Aeroplane Moscow. November 5
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 6
“Izvestia” states that a parachutist, who carried a special supply of oxygen, jumped from a height of nearly six miles and landed eight miles away,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Albury Race Club May Bitumenise Road Leading to the Course
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 6
If Albury Racing Club can carry out a plan to have the road to the course from Fallon street covered with a bitumen surface, it will receive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Fireman Killed
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 November 1939 · page 2
The body of Leslie William Martin. aged 35 years. a railway fireman, of Clarendon road, Stanmore, was found on the railway line between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Headlamp Faults Issued by [?] Road Trans[?] Mr [?]
The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 4
The problem [?] and in[?] a previous [?] Apart from [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Line Cleared Newcastle
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 6
The railway line at Hexham level crossing, where two picnic trains collided last night, was cleared for traffic 5.30 a.m. to-day. Gangs of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Taxation Upheaval! Outcry Against Increase of 12½ Per Cent
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 3
In the Legislative Assembly on Thursday the Minister for Transport (Colonel Bruxner) said that under the proposed taxation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motorists Corner Article Xi
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 3
The problem of headlight glare and incorrect aim were dealt with in a previous article. Apart from these things, defects…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interesting Motorisms OFFICIAL R.A.C.A. Notes International Crisis
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 2
In my recent pathetic little story anent the spider which hopped down the windscreen and caused the driver to wreck his car, I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclist's Swerve Cost Him His Life Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 3
When he swerved his motor cycle to avoid hitting a boy who had fallen to the roadway, Mervyn Hayes, aged 31, of Bexley, collided head on with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remarkable Train Robbery
The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 2
A prominent Swan Hill citizen was the victim of a most remarkable type of robbery while a passenger on the train between Castlemaine and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling Road Races
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 2
Riding brilliantly over the five-mile course on Sunday. Ron Howard proved too good for his rivals, and won in fine style from the two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Accidents Are Increasing (Issued by Road Safety Council)
The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 3
There is a small but serious increase in the road accidents of the State, and the president of the Road Safety Council and Minister for Transport (Col…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Motor Accident. Man's Throat Cut With Glass. SYDNEY
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 2
Hugh Shirley (32) and two companions were returning from the top of Bulli Pass last night when the car collided with the side of a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motorists' Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A. Notes International Crisis
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 5
In my recent pathetic little story anent the spider which hopped down the windscreen and caused the driver to wreck is car, I seem to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Dismissals 500 Men Put Off Construction
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 1
The reduced scalp of construction work on the Sandy Hollow-Maryvale railway is saving the Railway Department about £2000 a week, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blood Transfusion and Amputation of Leg Fail to Save Motor Cyclist's Life SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 3
In spite of a blood transfusion and the amputation of a leg, John Heasley, 18, of Balmain, died in the Balmain hospital to-day from injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Traffic Offenders Before Court
The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 4
Several traffic matters were listed for hearing before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., in Deniliquin Police Court yesterday. For driving an unregistered motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Remarkable Film for Motorists
Riverina Recorder · Saturday 11 November 1939 · page 3
Motorists of Balranald and district are to be the guests of the Vacuum Oil Company at a film evening to be held in Balranald Theatre, on 20th…
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