A Holbrook Horse and a Motor Car Figure in Strange Episode
About 8 o’clock last evening, a horse bestirred itself on the Hume Highway at the southern-entrance to Holbrook, wandered out to the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
906 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 46
Two Motor Accidents
At the intersection of Frauenfelder and Buckingham streets, a collision occurred yesterday about 6.45 p.m. between a car driven by W. T. Foo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Bridge Will Last 200 Years SYDNEY
The Hawkesbury river bridge, which will be opened for traffic on July 1. will take trains thundering over it at 70 mph—a contrast to the 5 mph…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Train Cuts In Victoria Official Announcement MELBOURNE
Despite the coal shortage, present train services are lo be continued, This was announced by the Premier (Mr Cain) tonight, after a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railways As A Career
Thousands of servicemen, returning after five years of war. are naturally, turning their thoughts to employment that will provide a permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Universal Half Holiday May Inconvenience Motori[?] SYDNEY, Thur[?]
The universal half holiday on [?] day afternoon, which will be [?] on June 1, may inconvenience [?] said the secretary of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Congestion at Albury Railway Yards
The Victorian Railways Commissioners announced yesterday certain restrictions on Interstate goods traffic, due to congestion at Albury brought about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vic. Railway Glass Possession Is 7 Days’ “Hard”
Charged before Mr. Sheppard, J.P., with having in his possession a glass reasonably suspected to be stolen or unlawfully obtained, David Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Seizure on Railway Station Sydney
Arthur Thomas Bemess aged 61, fell down a stairway at Parramatta railway station tonight and died a few minutes later on the platform. He lived at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Women Killed in Road Accidents Melbourne. S[?]
When her bicycle collided with a military truck at Horsham [?] Mary Edith Conroy. aged 27. S[?] st.. Horsham, was killed instantly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Motor Dealers Get Together Dinner Follows Conference
After a conference on Saturday afternoon, Albury and district section of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce entertained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Truman Acts to Break Strike Government to Take Over Railways Washington
President Truman has signed a Government older taking over the railways in an effort to avoid the wages claim strike due to begin at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threw Motor Cycle in Front of Police Car Two Men Arrested; Shots Fired MELBOURNE
When a police patrol car was overtaking two men on a motor cycle in a St Kilda street tonight, the men jumped from the machine and threw…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Men and Child Killed Motor Cars in Crashes Tamworth
Two men and a child hive died and seven people were injured as the result of three accidents in the Upper Hunter district in the 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Killed by Train Identified Sydney
The body of a man run over by a train Newtown station on Sunday morning was to-night identified as that of Frank Hubbard Moon, of Post Office rond,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waradgery Shire Council Whooping Cough Immunization—corrong Bridge—superannuation Act
THE Department of Public Health has informed the Waradgery. Shire Council that it is not prepared at this stage to authorise Whooping Cough Immunization Schemes. Tenders are called for the new Corrong bridge and approaches. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Motor Mechanic Fined £30
Reuben George Fox, aged 34, motor mechanic, of Wagga, was fined a total of £30 in Wagga police court yesterday on charges of failing to stop after an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Rail-Road Strewn With Dead and Dying” Japanese Officer Accused of Inhuman Sadism Many Australians Died In Jungles Of Burma And Siam SINGAPORE
Major Totaro Mizutani was presented today in first of a long series of war crime trials connected with the building of the notorious Siam-Burma railway. Mizutani was commander of camps in the most northerly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. Motorists to Get More Petrol Wellington (Nz)
A 50 per cent increase of petrol for private motorists will operate from June 1, it was stated today. The increase will bring New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Of Changi, Burma Railway and Other Places As Told by P.O.W. for 3½ Years
At the Methodist Men's Brotherhood meeting on Sunday night a large number was addressed by Mr C. Almond, of the staff of the "Independent," who was a P.O.W. in the hands of the Japanese for 31 years. Mr Almond enlisted from Shepparton,…
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