Unknown Woman Killed by Train
SYDNEY, Mon. : Police and ambulance officers tonight recovered the badly mutilated body of an unidentiffed woman…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
859 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 43
“Ward Never Received Bridge, Or Offered One” SYDNEY
THE External Territories Minister (Mr Ward) never received a bribe, nor was offered one, according to the overwhelming evidence, Mr. Shand, K.C., said at the New Guinea timber Royal Commission before it adjourned to-day until to-morrow. The story of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
A TREMENDOUS world-wide search for crude oil is now underway. Even in Australia, some millions of pounds is being expended in the search for oil, discovery of which would be of supreme importance to the nation…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Iniquitous Road Tax
There used to be an old- union claim that "an injury to one is an injury to all" and in some respects it is a good claim. It becomes especially good in this country when some elected authority takes upon itself powers it was never intended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Petrol Tax Money Should Be Spent on Roads
Wade Shire Council will support the Local Government Association in its request that all petrol tax money should be spent on roads…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cyclist Loses Licence
MELBOURNE, Wed. : William John McLennan, of Eastwood st, Ballarat, machine operator, was fined £26 and had his licence suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Traders and Proposed Sheep Show, Fair
Availability of vehicles would be the deciding factor governing any display of motor vehicles at the proposed Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Govt. to Take Over All Aerodrome Buildings
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: To overcome the haphazard manner in which city and country airports have developed, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Want Trunk Road Proclaimed A State Highway
A meeting of Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Tuesday decided to make representations to the Minister for Transport to have Trunk Road 57, through Wagga, Henty and Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finley Road Now Being Treated with Bitumen Accomplished by Progressive Conargo Shire Council
A SECTION of Finley road is now being lop-dressed with bitumen. This was announced at yesterday’s Conargo Shire Council meeting by the presiden (Cr. A. C. Bradford)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cavalcade Of Road Traffic Pours Into Berlin City En Fete As Blockade Lifted Berlin
A CAVALCADE of lorries loaded with vegetables poured into Berlin this morning after a hell-for-Ieather race along the Helmstedt-Berlin Highway. These were the first supplies to reach the city by land since the lifting of the Soviet blockade and Allied countermeasures…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corowa Motors Agencies
The proprietors of Corowa Motors--Fred. Mason Pty. Ltd.--have recently been appointed by Kellow Falkiner Pty. Ltd., of Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£1 Million Worth of Cars at Motor Show
MELBOURNE, Thursday : Cars to suit all purposes, the aggregate value of which exceeds £1,000,000. are displayed over an area of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Men on Motor Cycle Killed
SYDNEY, Friday : Two men were killed [?] instantly when their motor cycle struck a telegraph pole and burst into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Blocked for Five Hours After Smash
AFTER two motor trucks had collided head-on in the middle of Indigo Greek bridge, Barnawartha, shortly after 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, it took a staff of engineers, assisted by police and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Killed ; 15 Hurt in Motor Races
LONDON, Sunday : One man was killed and 15 people were injured at British motor racing events yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Items of News Wodonga Motor Cyclist Injured
Young Wodonga man, Vernon Joyce, of High street, suffered a compound fracture of the arm, concussion, abrasions and shock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Griffith Aerodrome
To bolster up their local plea to have Griffith aerodrome made "all weather" by the Commonwealth, it has been put forward that this would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Accident Toll
More than twice as many Australians were killed and injured in road accidents during the war years than were killed and wounded on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Historic Moment As First Sealing of Finley Road Begins
ALTHOUGH the actual moment of the first sealing was done on the Finlay road on Thursday morning, the official “sea” of the opening was placed on it yesterday afternoon when the president of Conargo Shire Council…
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