Man Dies After Blow in Tram. Melbourne
During a quarrel on a tram in Rivers dale road. Hawthorn, tonight Sydney Douglas Barker, about 45, address unknown, received a blow and fell from the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
565 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 29
Fined £20—Illegally Using Motor Vehicle
At Tocumwal Police Court yesterday, Albert E. Gould, charged with Illegally using a motor vehicle, was fined £33 Mr. Beavers. P.M. Gould was also fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists Urged to Obey Speed Law Sydney
“It is in the Motorists’ own interests that they should obey the new law which, from tomorrow, imposes a 30 mile per hour speed limit on vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reduced Motor Speed Limit
An order has been issued reducing the maximum speed of motor vehicles to 30 m.p.h., and came into operation on Wednesday, April 21. Announcing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Worthless Tyres Warning to Motorists
Motorists are warned by the NRMA that some unscrupulous tyre repairers are retreading worthless tyres and passing them on as first-class…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Hutments. Council Takes Serious View
Mrs S. H. Bolton, Acting Health [?] reported as [?] Shire Council, [?] of infectious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shot Allegedly Fired in Railway Yards
A shot was allegedly fired by a soldier at a worker in Albury railway yards the other evening. It was stated that when an engine driver and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Sky Tramps” Decorated
In the [?] of [?] kind in New Guinea more than [?] US. Air Corps pilots paraded this week on a [?] to receive [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Bad Tram Smash 50 Passengers Injured SYDNEY
Police and ambulance officials today marvelled that there was not one fatality in Sydney’s worst tram smash for years in a busy city area this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australians Train Americans
For the first time in history. United States army personnel are being trained in Australia by Australians. Numbers of white and colored members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →8 Soldiers Injured in Road Accident Sydney
When a military truck overturned of Bull road near Appin today, [?] soldiers were injured, five seriously Several of the men were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Old Horse Has Something on Motor
O horse, you are a wondrous thing No horns to honk, no bells to ring No license buying every year, with plates to stick on front and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Second Edition Saturday, 4 A.M. Allies in Suburbs of Tunis and Bizerta A[?]is Evacuation Troops in Motor Barges London, May 7
A special communique from Allied HQ in North Africa announces that from Allied troops have penetrated into the suburbs of Tunis and Bizerts. The communique states: "Our forces are continuing their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Obstruction on Line Derails Train. Melbourne
On Saturday morning a train was de[?] a level crossing near Westgarth by pieces of stone placed on the line. Boys are believed to hove been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japs Gain in Burma Astride Important Road LONDON, May 8
Japanese troops east of the Mayu Ridge have secured a position astride a road four miles west of Buthidaung and also, despite spite substantial casualties, have Succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Had No Train Ticket
Two laborers were fined £1 10/ each and ordered to pay 11/8 fare each when they were charged in Albury court yesterday with .travelling between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal by Head Master Road Safety Patrol
Mr. H. T. Heath, headmaster of the Intermediate High School, Deniliquin, makes an appeal through the ”Pastoral Times”:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Level Crossing Smash Railway Engine and Motor Bus Twenty-five Lives Lost
Twenty-five passengers and the driver of a motor bus were killed and 14 were injured when the bus and a light engine and tended in reverse collided at the racecourse level crossing, Bonegilla. at 6.25 p.m. on Saturday. The bus was struck near the driver's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Death Roll in Level Crossing Smash 25 Killed When Bus Crashes Into Train Engine
In one of the worst road-rail accidents in Australia, 24 Army personnel--23 men and a V.A .and a civilian, were killed on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drought Feeding Railway Concessions
The local Pastures Protection Board has been advised that the substantial concessions that have obtained in previous drought…
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