Metal Screenings for Roads
Only one tender was received by Deniliquin Council test night for the supply of metal screenings for road works on the State highway in the town and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
1,313 stories in Murray's papers · page 64 of 66
Condition of Albury Aerodrome Unfit For Night Landings Elaborate Plans Nullified N.E.S Convoy Moves to Rectify Position
This meeting has done a good thing in finding out all that is wrong With our aerodrome, and the amount of work that is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Time Is Accident Time. (Issued by the Road Safety Council)
Seven years ago the accident statistics of the State were recorded for the first time. Since then there has been an entry at Christmas of at least one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Week-end Motor Smashes Sydney
Two men, Francis Chas. Austin (20), and Bernard R. Quinn (20), were fatally injured when two motor cars collided near Gurley. A youth,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay Railway Station Holiday Time-table
There was a very large attendance at the Hay railway station on Friday night, when the annual special Christmas excursion train took its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Motorists Fined by Albury Court
Three Sydney motorists, Charles Griffith. Alan Frederick Mears, and Roy Williams, were fined at Albury Police Court yesterday for having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Speeding Up Watering of Streets. Motor Unit to Replace Horse Cart?
For the past week the method of keeping down the dust nuisance in the streets by means of a slow-moving horse-drawn mate[?] has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holiday Problem for Railways
The Commissioner for N.S.W. Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, in indicating that a serious problem is presenting itself because of extremely heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youth Killed in Road Accident Dubbo
Kenneth Fisher Salter, aged 16, was killed and three other youths were admitted to hospital suffering from injuries following the overturning of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amusements “The Road to Frisco” at Hoyts
Can a fellow like George Raft lame a girl like Anne Sheridan? Can Ida Lupino melt Humphrey Bogart? You’ll learn the answers when you see “The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Line Under Water for 9 Miles Tamworth
Further heavy storms which again disorganised rail traffic occurred in the north to-day. There was a severe storm at Willow Tree and the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Excursions in January
The Commissioner for Railways Mr T. J. Hartigan, advises us that [?] next general series of excursion trains will be run about the mid[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aerodrome Fire on
Formal approval was given by the Works Committee of the Albury Municipal Council last night to a scheme formulated by Mr. A. J. Newnham, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mail Train Derailed Tamworth
The north bound Brisbane mail fouled the points and was derailed early this morning at Duri, 12 miles from Tamworth. Sleepers were smashed, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reduction of Tax on Motor Vehicles
Murray Shire Council at its last meeting decided to make representations to the New South Wales Transport Department, through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Killed by Tram Sydney
Fatal injuries were received by Malcolm J. Turner, aged 21, a private in THE 2/23rd Pioneers, when he was knocked down by a tram in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bus and Tram Men Threaten to Strike Adelaide
To become effective at 10 a.m. to-morrow another threat to hold up Adelaide’s bus and tram services has been made by employes. The latest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Waiting for the Train
Albury show ground camp, except for a few men to carry on essential services, is now empty. These men were caught by the camera while waiting for their train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train and Car in Collision
Four men had a narrow escape from death on Saturday night at about 8 o’clock when their motor car was involved in a level crossing accident with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Airman Killed by Train Melbourne
A member of the R.A.A.F., stationed at Laverton, Keith Allison, aged 20, of North Essendon, was killed instantly to-night when he was struck by the…
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