Truck Crashes Into Telephone Pole Contractor Severely Injured; Wife & Employee Also Hurt Accident on Finley Road
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 1
When the utility truck in which they were driving missed a bend in the Deniliquin-Finley road and crashed into a telephone pole on Saturday evening, Mr. Hector King, aged 34 years, received very, serious injuries, while his wife and an employee, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tennis Railway Club Elects Officers
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 5
The Railway Institute Tennis Club held its annual meeting. The balance sheet disclosed a satisfactory financial position. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Restoration of Train Services
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 2
A partial restoration of train services has been decided upon by the Victorian railways, but it means complete restoration for Albury as far as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cleaning of Railway Trucks
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 2
One Albury Chinese gardener has a source of garden manure that is little suspected by the public—the residue cleaned from the cattle and sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist’s Tale of Woe
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 2
A tale of woe—which ended in a 15/ fine—was told by a motorist who was charged at Rugby (Eng.) recently, with obstruction on the Watling st. He ran…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle Troops Played Part in “Blitzkrieg” Paris, May 21
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 1
Sixty thousand motor cycle troops constituted one of Hitler’s “blitzkrieg” weapons on the Western Front. French tanks mowed down large numbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Haulage Rates to Be Increased Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 3
Associated Motor Transport of N.S.W. has [?] to increase freight rates for road transport by [?] per cent [?] from June. This increase has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire Council's Lengthy Session... Main Road Tenders-auditor's Report
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 3
The Jerilderie Shire Council had a lengthy session at its monthly meeting on Saturday last. Present:— Crs. J. H. Liddle (ch.), A. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motorists Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon" Quantity, Quality, Price
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 4
Petrol has assumed a three-point interest for us of late—Quantity, Quality and Price. On the subject of quantity, no decision…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bright Prospects for the 1940 Motor Racing Carnival
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 4
The motor racing carnival at the Wirlinga Circuit on June 17 promises to surpass all previous efforts. The entries, although not closing till next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hay Aerodrome Now in Permanent Use
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 4
Following a discussion at Hay between Council authorities in charge of the new aerodrome and directors of Victorian and Interstate Airways…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety Is War Effort. (By the Road Safety Council)
The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 4
Development of the war to its present gigantic stage has coincided with a noticeable increase in the number of road accidents due to carelessness or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Normal Train Services Soon Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 4
An announccement is likely to be made by the Commissioner for Rail says (Mr. Harligan) before the weekend. as to when normal passenger train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →R. Ryan Wins First Road Race
The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 2
There were eleven starters [?] Deniliquin Cycle Club’s openi[?] race over a 10 miles course on the Echuca r[?]ad on Wednesday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Goods Traffic Normal Services Next Monday, SYDNEY,--Thursday
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 3
The Commissioner for Railways (Mr, Hartigan) announced to-day that normal goods traffic on railways throughout the state would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Scenic Road to High Plains
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 6
SCARCELY two years ago, Roper’s cattle track from Tawonga South to the high plains was a thing of hazard—to-day, at least as far as the junction of the Rocky and Pretty Valley streams, it is a safe highway. Ere another summer has passed the road will reach to the high plains themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fourteen Hour Day German Railway Problems
Riverina Recorder · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 6
A recent Nazi decree stipulated that every worker in transport companies must have ten hours off out of the 24. This fourteen-hour day, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increase in Price of Motor Oil Canberra
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 2
The Minister for Customs (Senator McLeay) announced to-day that the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland I had authorised an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Some “Disloyalists” in Railway Department Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 May 1940 · page 4
The outdoor staff of the Railways Department contains many disloyalists, according to Mr. Hollway, U.A.P. (nallarat). who declared that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensational Motor Accident Driver's Narrow Escape Lorry Crosses Bridge Without Driver
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 2
On Saturday evening, shortly before 6 o'clock, a two-ton Ford lorry, owned and driven by Mr. Ron Isaac, got out of control on the road near the…
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