Tennis Railway and South Albury to Play Off
Railway and South Albury, who won their semi-finals in the women’s B grade tennis competition on Saturday will meet in the final next Saturday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Bridge Guarded
The guard for the railway bridge at Tocumwal has arrived. It comprises an officer and 15 men of the Home Defence Militia. the bridge has been well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads Not to [?] Closed “Another Way Out”
Requests to close the main [?] Deniliquin to other traffic to [?] clear passage for a beer barrel [?] race and a monster process[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Train Collision Driver Was Killed SYDNEY
The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) Opened an inquiry to-day into the death of William Joseph Stephen Hatch, aged 51, locomotive driver [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the Road to Anywhere “Lofty” Enjoying a Drink
Left: Australian troops on a route march “Somewhere in England.” Right: “Lofty,” one of the tallest men in the A.I.F. in Palestine, “drinks his fill” while his comrades look on in amusement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protect the Children From the Dangers of Road Traffic
New South Wales has been experiencing a minor epidemic of road accidents in which children have been invoived. Probably there is nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sabotage Causes 17 DEATHS . Train Derailed in India CALCUTTA. August 5
Seventeen persons were killed and were injured when the Dacca-Calcutta mail train was derailed 70 miles from Calcutta…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Disaster in India Calcutta
Thirty-four were killed and 90 injured, all Indians, when the Calcutta mail train was derailed 79 miles from Calcutta. Sabotage is suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Accident at Canowindra Two Killed, Eight Injured SYDNEY
When a motor car overturned nine miles from Canowindra yesterday, Mrs. Violet Miskell, 59, widow, and her son, Victor Miskell, 28, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Salvage Scheme Letter Mom Railways
The State Controller Salvage for National Purposes recently requested the co-operation of Deniliquin Council in the scheme for the collection of waste…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →34 Dead in Train Disaster Calcutta, August 5
Revised figures of casualties resulting from the derailment of the Ducca-Calcutta mail train, 70 miles from Calcutta, are 34 dead and 90 injured. All…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Lives Lost in Accidents. [?]ued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
Deaths in road accidents In this State have been increasing each week until at the end of July the position was nearly as serious when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Excursions. for Spring School Vacation
State Schools will close on Thursday, August 22. About that time-return tickets at the ordinary single fare (minimum 7/6 first-class,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Staff Thanked
In the opinion of Mrs. A. Marshallsea. who recently resigned her position as controller of the W.V.S. canteen workers at the Albury railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Toll Mounting in Victoria Melbourne
In the first half of 1940 280 persons were killed and 4373 injured in road accidents, according to official statistics released to-day for the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Municipal Finances and Staff Effect Of New Main Roads Policy
Attention of the Deniliquin Council was drawn, at Monday’s meeting by the town clerk (Mr. A. J. Chant) in a special report the serious effect the drastic curtailment of financial assistance rendered by the Main Roads Department is likely to have on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conargo Shire Council Protect Against Curtailment Of Department’s Road Grants
Conargo Shire Council met yesterday. There were present Or. J. H Patterson (president) and Crs. J. T Service, F. Armytage, E. G-. Robb, J. R. Carse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women’s Tennis Railway Favored for B Grade Premiership
Hallway, with a strong four is selected to win the final of the B grade women’s winter pennant tennis competition to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Revenue Soaks Increase Of £2,400 In July
Revenue of Deniliquin railway station soared in July compared with the same month in 1939, amounting to £5,993 last month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burma Road Supplies London, August 8
It is stated in authoritative quarters in London that any suggestion that war materials are still proceeding to China by the Burma route. in…
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