Week-end Accidents Several Motor Crashes Occur Woman Seriously Injured Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 6
Suffering from o fractured base of the skull, and fractured collar bone, Mrs. Olive Blackford. 26 years, of Neerim road. Carnegie, was admitted…
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The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 2
Fierce bushfires near Euroa on Saturday were responsibly for both divisions of the Melbourne express striving Sydney six hours behind schedule…
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The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 1
Because of the coal strike, there will not be any trains leaving or arriving at Deniliquin railway station on Saturdays, it was officially…
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Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 1
The mutilated body of George Samuels, aged 18. war. found on the railway [?] near Redfern to-day. He was last seen alive in the locality last…
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The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 2
A motor accident occurred on the Deniliquin road, about ten miles from Finley, when a car collided with a tree. It is understood that one of the…
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The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 2
Saturday's "Sydney Morning Herald" contained an advertisement of the Main Roads Department calling for tenders for two contracts in…
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The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 2
The police think that the man killed yesterday on the top of a railway carriage, near Manildra, may have come from South Australia. Near an…
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Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 5
At a committee meeting of the Riverina Sporting Car Club last evening IT was decided lo again hold the annual motor races on the…
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The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 2
Mr. C. Lea had a very lucky escape from serious injury on Wednesday evening whilst driving his mail car from Deniliquin to Hay (states the…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 6
Owing to the necessity to conserve coal supplies for essential services, the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Hartigan) decided to-day to curtail…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 4
A finding of occidental death was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.), at an inquiry at the City Mogue to-day into the death…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 4
A report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Hospitals, tabled in the Legislative Assembly to-night by the Chairman (Mr. N. Thomas, M.L.A.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arms and Exports Census to be Taken on Industries Concentration on Motors, Shipping and Aircraft, London. April 1
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 2
The first census of workers encaged in arms and export industries will begin to-morrow and will end on April 10…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 6
All tramway services in “off peak” hours in the metropolitan area and in Newcastle will be reduced by 50 per cent, as early as practicable. Some…
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Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 2
The damage to bridges and culverts on Rat’s Castle road, in the Wodonga Shire as a result of the bush fire earlier in the year, has been estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Restricted Rail Services Carriage by Road Will be Allowed Announcement by Department of Road Transport Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 5
In view of the embargo placed on the despatch of certain classes of goods by rail on account of the coal strike, approval has been given for…
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Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 3
Surely some more virile and resourceful attitude towards the future of motor transport in Australia should be adopted than mere…
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Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 2
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Hartigan, says the unrest in the railway services had been brought about by "a few…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motorists Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon" Achievement
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 3
Thanks in a very large measure to the splendid support accorded to the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, and the Road Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways Take Precautions Against Fighting Fires. MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 2
The precautions token by the Victorian Railways Department to guard against fires being caused by sparks from locomotives may be divided…
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