J. Butcher Wins 25-miles Road Race
In a splendid finish Jack Butcher defeated Percy Hussey by less than a length, with W. Hair a close third, in the 25 miles road race conducted by…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Railway Revenue’s Leap August Total, £9,126; Increase of £3,678
With large increases in practically all items, the revenue of Deniliquin railway station for August [?]ounted to £9,126, being an increase of £3,133…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier’s Fatal Fall From Train Bendigo
Found lying on the railway line at Kangaroo Flat this morning with numerous injuries to the body, George Herbert Butterworth, aged 35, single, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldiers to Help Build N.T. ROAD Miles a Day On Schedule ADELAIDE
A party of A.I.F. men who volunteered specially for the work have left Adelaide to maintain supplies for 500 men constructing a new military road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cyclist Killed Sydney
When a motor cycle collided with a motor car on Lansdowne bridge. Liverpool, last night, the rider of the cycle, Roger Leslie Pike, aged [?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Ship Captured and Recaptured Sydney Last Port of Call London, September 7
A 12,000-ton German raider captured the motorship Tropic Sen, which left Sydney for Panama. two days’ north of Norfolk Island on June 18. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclist Dies Melbourne
Receiving a fractured skull when the motor cycle he was riding collides with a motor car at the corner of Ormond road and St. Kilda street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclist Prodigies. (Issued by the Road Safety Council.)
Complaint has been made to several branches of the Road Safety Council, and specially to Cessnock branch, that children of tender years are often seen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victim of Raider? Norwegian Motor Ship Left Melbourne May 14 SYDNEY
Fear is expressed that the Norwegian motorship Tiranna. 7230 tons, has fallen victim to an enemy raider probably in the Indian Ocean…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Writs Against Railways Claims Total £44,092 MELBOURNE
Seventeen Supreme Court writs claiming a total of £44,092/5/6, against the Victorian Railways Commissioners for losses suffered as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Truck Driver’s Bad Luck. (Issued by the Road [?] of New South [?]
Many drivers of motor [?] are involved in numerous [?] Here, for instance, is the [?] cord of one man: A truck [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Claims Against Railways Now Total £103,023 10 More Writs MELBOURNE
Ten additional Supreme writs, taken cut against the Victoria Railway Commissioners to-day half of Torquay and Western…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Losses
Losses on the 63 non-paying railway lines in N.S.W. since 1926 total £24,802,000. Parliamentary Candidates and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl’s Death; Motorist Convicted Melbourne
Cyril Barkas, a millhand, of Camberwell, was convicted in General Sessions to-day of the manslaughter of Miss Eileen Doyle, of Middle Brighton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three More Writs Against Railways Fire Claims Now Total £105,000 MELBOURNE
Messrs. Bullen and Burt, solicitors, of Collins St. who are acting for 92 plaintiffs whose property was destroyed or damaged in the bushfires at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Military Train
A special train, will run from Albury, to Sydney to-night to convey military-personnel, announced the stationmaster. (Mr. D. McLeod),…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berlin Has Its Biggest Air Raid Potsdam Railway Station Damaged and Fierce Fires Started LONDON
The R.A.F., which declines to be deflected from its declared purpose of only attacking military objectives, made its most intense raid on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Free Railway Passes
Following on representations made by Mr. C. B. Lethbridge M.L.A., he has been advised by the Railway De are entitled to and can obtain their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Most Motorists Know !
Most motorists know that it is wise replace their engine oil in the springtime, yet many motorists forget have this done until something…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Driver Killed Out of Control. SYDNEY
The driver of a coal train was killed to-day when the train got out of control and crashed through a dead-end and hurtled over a 50-foot…
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