Soldiers on Motor Cycle Seriously Hurt in Collision with a Horse Sydney
The condition to-night of Corporal Weekes and Private A. F. Sheather, attached to the Army Services Corps of the A.I.F. was critical…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Bowna Creek Bridge
Sir,—In your issue of the 27th inst., Mr. David Taskis states in the last paragraph : “That the proposed route, if only a mile shorter, would be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Temporary Strike at Aerodrome Thrity-five Men Involved
On Tuesday morning last thrity-five men engaged on the nerodrome works in Corowa went out on strike. Their reason for this course of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Curtailment of Sydney Train Service
It was reported on Wednesday that commencing on Monday, April 15, only one express will leave Albury for Sydney, owing to the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Editor Bowna Creek Bridge
Sir.—In your issue of the 29th, there appears a reply from the Hume Shire President, Cr. J. E. JeJbart. He has not yet favored me with a reply…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Punt Road Fatality Melbourne
At an inquiry at the City Morgue to-day into the death of George Myles Jenkins, 59, railway employe, of King st. Prahran, the Coroner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Casey Sees Mr. Welles Purchase of Aeroplane by Minister Washington. April 3
Mr. R. G. Casey, Australian Minister to Washington, conferred for half an hour to-day with the Assistant Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fertilisers for Farmers Can be Carried by Road Transport Position Was Becoming Serious
Farmers will be greatly relieved by the decision of the Department of Road Transport and Tramways to allow motor carriage of goods in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Man's Death Cut to Pieces When Caught in Rails SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon
Haywood Norman Givney, 55, a railway employee, met with a terrible death this morning. He had been coupling a truck to a model "T"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water As Fuel Italian Invention for Motor Cars
Signor Pietro Pasoli, of Bergamo, has succeeded in applying a new invention for running motor vehicles by means of the electrolysis of common…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Motor Traffic Prosecutions
At the Corowa Police Court on Thursday last, before Mr. [?]. Beavers, P.M.. J. F. Izon was charged with having driven an unregistered trailer. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Items of News Warned Not to Ride Unregistered Motor Cycle
Alan Lawrence Hemphill, dairy hand now living in Melbourne, was fined 30/ and 10 C costs al Wodonga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goods Train Arrangements Sydney
The acting secretary for railways declared to-day that the altered train schedules made necessary to conserve son because of the strike would affect…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Changes Owing to Coal Strike
Owing to the coal shortage it has been decided that on and after Wednesday, March 27, 1940, acceptance of orders for trucks to convey live stock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schoolboy Killed by Motor Truck Melbourne
Mauvice [?] of Albion street. West Brunswick, was knocked down and killed by a motor truck in Hope street. West Brunswick, when on his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Worker Killed Cut to Pieces by Engine Driver Failed to Hear His Cries Sydney
Haywood Norman Givney, aged 55 years, was cut to pieces by an engine at the Everleigh railway yards today. when his foot became jammed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Child Killed by Train Perth
Falling from a stationary train at Merredin station last night, Lesley Verna Dillon, aged three, of Burracoppin, was struck and killed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Conductor Killed When Car Skids Sydney
When a motor car and a bicycle ridden by a messenger collided in the [?] last night, the car skidded across the roadway and knocked Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cow Breaks Leg on Bridge
When a mob of cattle was passing over the, Murray budge at Echuca. a cow slipped and fell heavily, breaking her leg. Later the animal had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Curtailment of Culcairn- Corowa Train
Notification has been received by the stationmaster at Corowa railway station (Mr. S. N. Tucker) that, owing to the curtailment of…
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