Sport in Tramania
Sport in Tasmania is rapidly wilting. The North-West Coast Football Association has cancelled its programme for the season, and although…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
1,313 stories in Murray's papers · page 36 of 66
H. James Wins Gold Cup Albury Motor Races Yesterday Thrills on Wirlinga Circuit Alf Barrett’s Lap Record Jack Phillips in Third Place
Harold James, of Melbourne, yesterday won the Albury and Interstate Gold Cup sMotor Race of 75 miles, when the Riverina Sporting Car Club held its annual race meeting on the Wirlinga Circuit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trucks Collide on Mountain Road Near Tawonga
Two men engaged on the Kiewa hydro-electricity scheme were involved in an accident yesterday, when two heavy trucks collided on a sharp bend…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Factors in Winter Driving (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Country branches of the Road Safety Council have recently been giving attention to the practical side of road safety and stress has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman Motorist Dies Melbourne
As the result of injuries sustained a collision between the motor car she was driving and another car on the Geelong road last night. Mrs. Elsie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Red Cross Train and Ambulance Attacked by N Azis
Left: The Red Cross has no meaning for German airmen, whose bombs wrecked this train, which was conveying wounded in France. Right: A French Red Cross ambulance, which was ruthlessly machine-gunned by Nazi aviators…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Home From France :: Road Signs Go in Britain
Left: A general view on board steamers which brought the B.E.F. home from Dunkirk. Right: Removing road signs in Britain which might have proved of assistance to the Germans in the event of invasion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →15 Miles Road Race Won by R. Bennett
Riding from the front mark in his first appearance as a cyclist, Ron Bennett scored in good style in the 15 miles road race conducted by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Road in Mabins Well Area. Suggestion Before Conargo Shire
Following on a petition from ratepayers of Jerilderie and Conargo Shires to Conargo Shire in September last to obtain a bridge over Delta…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Deaths in Road Collision Man Gaoled For Three Years CANBERRA
David James Hamilton, laborer, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on a charge of manslaughter, at the Supreme Court to-day. The charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Italian Prisoners Taken From Motorised Column CAIRO
It is officially announced that 250 Italian prisoners were taken with all equipment, including light tanks, for- ries and field guns, captured during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Damaged Police Motor Cycle”
In the Albury Police Court yesterday before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., Charles Joseph Coulston, drover, aged 41, was fined £1 in default four days’ hard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle Sports To Assist Comforts Fund
With the intention of staging motor cycle spoils at North Deniliquin to assist the Comforts Fund, Messrs. George Diffey and Roy Buist are seeking the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oxley Shire to Buy a Training Aeroplane
Contributions comprising £755 free of interest loans, £462 for war savings certificates, and £212 7/ for an aeroplane were made when Oxley Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Restoration of Local Train Service
As will be seen by advertisement in another column, the train services to and from Balranald, which was disrupted by the recent coal strike, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shires’ Conference Legislation Concerning Control of Roads
AT Conargo Shire Council’s meeting on Thursday, Cr. A. C. Bradford submitted a report on the annual shires’ conference which he attended in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Highway Land Resumptions for Straightening Road
Resumption is to be proceeded with of portion of private land at the corner of End and Crispe streets, so that the State highway at that point may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Tenders For Road Contract In Town Area
Where are all the road contractors ? The Deniliquin Council, despite having advertised in local, district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Illegally Using Motor Cars
As a sequel to the disappearance and recovery of several motor cars recently at Narandera, Robert Charles Walsh (19) and Reginald George Stewart (18),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin-blighty Railway League End to Unsuccessful Venture Affairs to Be Finalised
The Deniliquin-Blighty Railway League, which was formed in 1927 with the object of obtaining an extension of the line to Blighty…
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