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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1949

859 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 43

Used Motor Vehicle Without Permission

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 3

A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally using a motor vehicle was fined £10 and ordered to pay £26 compensation by Mr. A. V…

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Railway Worker Fined

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

A railway worker, William Thomas Clark, of Wagga, pleaded guilty to a charge of having used indecent language and with being…

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Motor Mechanic Charged With Cycle Theft

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

A 34-year-old motor mechanic John Henry McGrath, of Albury, appeared before Albury Court on Wednesday on a charge of…

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Tramwaymen Back at Work

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 March 1949 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday : Brisbane tram and bus services were resumed this morning after the men had staged their fifth 24-hour…

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Our Motor Cyclists Killed Six Others Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four people were killed, and six were seriously injured in motor cycle accidents over the week-end…

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Railway Worker Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 2

Arailway worker, Harold Schultz, of Charles street, Albuiy, was treated at the District Hospital yesterday afternoon for a…

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Extension of Road Policy

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

"The Country Party, which was responsible for the inauguration of the Federal Aid Roads Scheme in 1926, has now…

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Carrathool Roads Complaints of Rain Damage

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 1

The Shire engineer's report to last Carrathool Shire Council meeting showed that roadwork had been well dispersed throughout the Shire and…

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Hardinge Street Bridge to be Completed Soon

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

The partly constructed timber bridge to span the la goon in Hardinge Street should be completed…

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Albury-wodonga Road Deputation

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 8

The resolutions framed at the Albury-Wodonga, road conference held in Albury at the beginning of the year…

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Golf First Played on a Road

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 9

AT the turn of the century golf was introduced to Wodonga by the late Mr. Edmondson, for many years a lawyer in the town. There was a distance of three miles from the tee to the only hole! The fairway was Tallangatta road !…

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For the MOTORIST

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 11

CONCERN at the increasing number of accidents caused by defective motor vehicle equipment Is expressed by the N.R.M.A. Mr. H. E. Richards, general secretary, said official figures…

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Albury-wodonga Road Improvements Are Sought By Deputation to C.R.B. MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 3

IMPROVEMENTS to the road link between Albury and Wodonga were sought by a deputation from those two towns which waited on the Country Roads Board to-day…

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Aerodrome Now Open

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 4

The Hay Aerodrome was closed following the rain on Tuesday night and was not re-opened again until to-day. Four passengers from Sydney by…

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'Point Bridge Navigation "Ridiculous"

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

Murrumbidgee Shire Council has asked that the proposed footway over the Darlington Point bridge be made a national work…

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Luxury Train to Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 3

Railway officials at Junee are working out details of a new luxury train service between Sydney and Albury. The new air-conditioned train…

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Hay Municipal Council Streets to Be Graded Special Grant Asked for Cemetery Road

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 5

THE Hay Municipal Council, at a special meeting last night, decided that certain notoriously bad streets in the town should be graded at once, if the Shire patrol could be spared, and, since it has been disallowed under the petrol tax…

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Widening Albury-wodonga Road Work Depends On Govt. Grant To C.R.B.

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

WHILE the chairman of the Victorian Country Roads Board (Mr Dale) realised that Albury-Wodonga road is carrying an enormous amount of traffic, he pointed…

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S.r. County Council to Purchase Motor Vehicles

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

At a meeting of the Southern Riverina County Council, held at Wagga recently, approval was given for the purchase of seven motor vehicles and…

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Geelong Wins Railways Cricket

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Geelong won the DFJ Shield in the annual Railway Country Cricket week carnival which concluded in Melbourne…

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