Ugly Turn in French Strike Train Is Derailed By Saboteurs : 7 Killed PARIS
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 2
The Minister for Finance (M. Rene Mayer) announced in the Assembly this morning that seven persons were killed when the Paris-Arras mail train was derailed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Many Cars Will Go Off Road”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 December 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Fri.— “If the present petrol ration is cut by 25 per cent, thousands of cars will go off the road,” the general secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Chifley Announces Further Severe Austerity Decisions To Save Dollars Less Petrol, Tobacco and Smaller Newspapers Fewer Motor Cars : Trade With U.S. Hit CANBERRA
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 December 1947 · page 1
Federal Cabinet to-night ordered further drastic cuts in Australia’s imports of goods from dollar areas to limit total dollar expenditure for 1947-48 about £A90,000,000. This will involve an immediate cut of 10 percent in the consumption of petrol by all classes of consumers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deni. Motors V. Boonoke
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 December 1947 · page 1
A brilliant 80 by S. Bull, of Boonoke, was the highlight of this match. His team compiled; 225. Other batsmen on the right side of the ledger were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →4 Months Gaol for Railway Thefts Man Before Albury Court
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 December 1947 · page 4
Frederick Brown, aged 39, casual worker at the Albury railway station, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment with hard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To The Editor. That Cemetery Road
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 December 1947 · page 2
Sir, — Ex-Alerman Logan still maintains that the City Council has a plan, quiescent at the moment, to build a road through the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waradgery Shire Increase in Rates to Provide for Minor Roads
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 December 1947 · page 2
WARADGERY Shire Council yesterday adopted estimates providing for a rate of one penny and an eighth in the £ on the U.C.V. of land in the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →37 New Locomotives For N.S.W. Railways
Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 December 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thurs: Number of stock trucks in commission with the State Railway Department Was 2849, in comparison with 3011 in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warning to Motorists Service Stations Told To Conserve Petrol
Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 December 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Thur: Motorists were warned to-day by the general secretary of the Service Stations Association (Mr C. A. Gregory) that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorists Asked to Play Their Part Mr. Chifley On Petrol Cuts
Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 December 1947 · page 5
CANBERRA, Thurs: Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) today appealed to motorists to play their part in enforcing the 10…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Motor Cycles for Export
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 December 1947 · page 1
Motor cycles being got ready for export from an English factory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Coolies Rebuild 400 Miles of Railway With Hands Hong Kong
Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 December 1947 · page 3
Brute coolle strength and Chinese ingenuity and determination in solving all difficulties, including war and famine, have again achieved a success for Chinese engineering in bringing back into operation the Pukow-Tsinan section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →30 Killed When Bridge Collapses
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 December 1947 · page 1
TUNJA (Columbia), Mon.: Thirty persons are believed to have been killed when n suspension bridge over the Minero River collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Kills Man at Crossing
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 December 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY, Mon.—An elderly man was killed instantly this morning when a train crashed into his car at a level crossing at Rosehill. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beechworth Teacher Killed in Road Collision
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 December 1947 · page 3
WANGARATTA, Mon.—This afternoon a car driven by Mr Sydney Rex Kelson, school, teacher of Beechworth, collided almost head…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Shortage Hits N.s.w. Railways
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 December 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tues — The NSW Commissioner for Railways (Mr T. J. Harligan) in the course of his annual report says that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Mention of Roads in Budget Threat to Motor Transport
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 4
"I am greatly concerned that the Budget Speech omits any announcement of the Government's intentions in regard to roads," said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boys Receive Road Safety Prizes
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 2
As a result of recent successes in a State-wide road safety contest four Albury Public School boys received cash prizes this week. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Aldermen Killed Car Hit By Train
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wed.: Two South Coast aldermen were killed last night when a train crashed into their utility truck at Oak Flat,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Killed by Train Wodonga Coroner’s Finding
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 2
At an Inquest into the death of Catherine Carroll, spinster, 73 in the Wodonga Coroner’s Court yesterday, Mr. M. Buntz…
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