Italian Railways; Electrification to Be Increased Rome. January 7
Signor Mussolini has centralised control of the artillery, engineer and transport The electrification of the railways is being expedited in order…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Motor Bus Wrecked; Two Hurt Sydney
The driver and conductor of a motor omnibus were admitted to hospital suffering from injuries, and the vehicle was wrecked, when it ran over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Corowa Aerodrome Construction to Begin
An engineer of the Department of Works and Local Government was in Corowa yesterday to complete arrangements for commencing work on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways Department Grants Special Starving Stock Feed Concessions
The monthly meeting of the directors of the Jerilderie Pastures Protection Board was held on Monday, 8th inst. Present:—Messrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed in Motor Smash
MRS. JOSEPHINE BLANCHE SPENCER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bohr, of Albury, who has died as a result of Injuries received in a car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Municipal Council Local Unemployed to Work on Aerodrome
At the monthly meeting of the Corowa Municipal Council on Tuesday night last, January 9, 1940, there were present. His Worship the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Train to Visit Albury
The manager of the Coaching Line advises that more than a hundred tourists will visit Albury, Wodonga, Tallangatta. Beechworth and Wangaratta…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Workers' Dismissal Protest
When Hume Shire Council meets to-day, a deputation from Brocklesby ratepayers will wait on it and present a petition indicating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corowa Aerodrome Camp Being Planned Work to Commence on January 29
On Wednesday last. Mr. Noakos, Engineer from the Department of Works and Local Government, Sydney, visited Corowa, and consulted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Year Starts Badly Heavy Toll of the Road
An reports are being received by the Department of Road Transport from all parts of the State, it is becoming more and more obvious that the road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cars, Wool and Wheat Why the Preferential Treatment (To the Editor)
Sir,—I understand that the Government’s proposal to find £1,500,000 to [?] the building of motor cars in Australia has been agreed, to by all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Munitions for China Japanese Demand on France “Will Destroy Railway Bridges” New York, January 10
The Shanghai correspondent of the New York “Times” states that the Japanese army and navy have demanded that munitions shipments on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Councils Should Control Main Roads
The Shires’ Association N.S.W. wrote to the Hume Shire Council yesterday stating that complaints were still reaching the association regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conference Over Bonegilla-Albury Bridge
Wodonga councillors expressed satisfaction at the Shire Council meeting this week, when the N.S.W. Department of Main Roads asked for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Roads Hume Shire Opposed to Trunk Road Proposal Would Be Against Interests of Local Government
The principle of handing over the control of roads to the Main Roads Board, in opposition to Local Government control, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Baby Born on a Train Sydney
A young woman [?] Way Way gave birth in a girl on a Sydney [?] train [?] morning. The mother [?] on her way to hospital to be [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident on River Bridge. Young Man Badly Injured
Frank Lyons, 19 years of age, of Merebin, met with a serious accident while crossing the Balranald bridge on Sunday morning last at about 11.80…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refuse to Train; 400 Men to be Questioned ADELAIDE
About 400 young men who have failed to report for examination for military service are to be located and questioned by the military…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What’s to Do about Unused Land near Railway ? Ugly Sight
Evidently both civic and railway authorities have lost all thought of beautification of the vacant block of land at the corner of Young and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albury Youth Killed Near Union Bridge
John Charles Wilson, aged 18, of Cadell street, Newmarket, was killed instantly shortly before midnight on Friday when be was struck by a…
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