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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1940

1,313 stories in Murray's papers · page 30 of 66

Free Road Service with Insurance

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 8

Messrs. Bennie S. Cohen and Son (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd. will shortly be issuing a motor car insurance policy which will include free road service…

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More Deaths in Road Accidents. (Issued by the Read Safety Council of New South Wales.)

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 4

This is the time of the year when there arc more deaths in road accidents than at any other per[?] Experience over the last five years…

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Maginot Guns Shatter Siegfried Railway BASLE, May 14

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 1

French artillery and Allied bombs shattered part of the [?] tunnel, south from Schllengen, below Germany’s “Gibralter of the Rhine,”…

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More Deaths in Road Accidents

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 1

This is the time of the year when there are more deaths in road accidents than at any other period. Experience over the last…

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Railway Employes Suffer Severe Rationing Applied Minister’s Figures Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 3

Hundreds of employes in the Railway Department have been severely rationed or their services temporarily dispensed with owing…

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Goods Train-Movements

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 4

The Railway Department advises that goods tram No. 125, which is scheduled to leave at 6.26 p.m., will run for Albury to Junee at that hour…

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Engineer's Report Main Roads Activities

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 5

This month has again been characterised by extreme activity in connection with Main Roads works. Plans and specifications have been…

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The Maude Bridge Fresh Tenders Called

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 2

An advertisement calling for fresh tenders for the construction of a bridge over the Murrumbidgee River at Maude appears in this issue…

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Few Road Deaths in N.S.W. SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 2

A reduction of 14 per cent in road accidents. [?] per cent in deaths and a per cent in the numbers injured, is shown in the accident statistics for…

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Murray Shire Council Meeting Forest Road To Be Repaired

The Pastoral Times · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 3

Murray Shire Council met at Mathoura on Monday, when there were present The president (Or. W. P. Coppinger). Crs. G. T Bayliss, W G. J Beer,…

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Fatal Road Accident One Killed, Three Injured SYDNEY, Friday Morning

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 2

Norman Tuck, 55, electrical engineer of Campbelltown, was killed instantly and his son Graham Tuck, 30, and his nine year old grandson, were…

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A Car Smash Accident on Cookardinia Road Driver's Miraculous Escape

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 5

(James Samuel Hall, 28 years, of Holbrook, can consider himself a very fortunate young man, as the outcome of a motor accident on the Cookardima…

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Shearer and a Motor Car Battery FINED £4 by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 2

Almost a year ago Roy James Brown, aged 40, shearer, now reading in Albury, is alleged to have stolen a motor car battery, valued at…

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Heavy Railway Bookings

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 4

End of the coal strike found the booking office at the Albury railway station busy yesterday. The Sydney express last required five…

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Big Allied Aeroplane Purchases in America New York. May 18

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 May 1940 · page 8

The British and French purchasing mission has announced that the Allies have already spent over £250,009,000 in the United States for war supplies,…

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Killed by Vice-regal Train Brother and Sister Governor’s Sympathy Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 May 1940 · page 6

The train which was carrying the Governor (Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey) and the Vice-Regal party on an official visit to Port Augusta…

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Murray Shire Works Improvement Of Colligen Bridge

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 3

The engineer (Mr. Leggo) reported to Murray Shire Council at last week’s meeting as follows:— Day labor work.—Shire plant was…

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Mabin’s Well Road Proposed Deviation

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 3

At last weeks meeting of Jerilderie Pastures Protection Board, Cr. John Carse, representing the Conargo Shire Council, waited on the board to state…

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Parents Cause Deaths? (Issued by the Road Safety Council)

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 4

Parents, more than any others, could have helped in preventing most of these accidents:— Children under seven years of age…

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Killed by Train in Fog a Signalman’s Death Melbourne’s Wintry Morning Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 4

A railway [?] on daily at South Kensington railway junction to warn trains during a dense fog this morning was killed when he…

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