The Toll of the Road Well-known Finley Resident Killed From Motor Cycle
Mr. James Joseph O'Connell (20), well-known Finley resident, was killed as a result of a motor cycle accident in Melbourne on Friday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
859 stories in Murray's papers · page 30 of 43
Missing Two-year-old Crossed Rail Bridge
WHILE an Albury woman was making purchases from a shop at the comer of David and Smollett streets last evening, her two-year-old baby disappeared…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: A full pre-strike train service to Albury will be resumed from next Sunday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Registry Office Hours
Office hours of the Albury motor registry office have reverted to those operative before the coal strike, with the exception that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay-Deniliquin Road in Poor-State after Rain
Stock and wool transports were finding difficulty in negotiating Hay-Deniliquin road in weather, a Hay grazier advised…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Red Documents and Gold Stolen From Train? Melbourne
A COMMONWEALTH Bank official told the Royal Commission on Communism Ho-day that he believed documents relating to Communist Party transactions were stolen when £3160 worth of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Solicitor’s Successful Plea for P.O.W. Comrade of “Death Railway” Sydney
A SOLICITOR to-day successfully appealed to Mr. Beavers, S.M., for the release on bond of a man charged with driving while under the influence of liquor and with whom he had worked on the “Death Railway” in Siam as a prisoner of war of the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warns That U.S. “Skirting Road To War”
NEW YORK, Mon.: Speaking from the pulpit of a. Presbyterian Church at Watertown, New York, Senator John Foster…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youthful Motor Cyclist Dies From Injuries
MELBOURNE, Man.: [?] Howard Holland, 18, of [?], died in St. Vincent’s [?] today from injuries sustained when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Governor Deplores Growing Road Toll
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Only public awareness and the responsibility of motorists and pedestrians would cut down the road toll,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wodonga and District Section Railway Crossing 50 Years Out Date
DESPITE the fact that Wodonga’s railway gates are a safeguard against level crossing accidents, they have been regarded as the town’s greatest bug-bear for more than half…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£500,000 Motor Works Fire
GENOA, Tues: Fire yesterday completely destroyed the San Giorgio motor works at Sestri, valued at £500,000. The cause of the fire is unknown…
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The first Australian-built Hartnett motor car is expected to be on the road in eight months’ time Mr. L. J. Hartnett said that…
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A DINNER will be held at the Albury Hotel on Saturday, September 3, at 6.30 p.m. followed by the annual general meeting of the Albury district section of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce. To facilitate catering…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: A tram driver was alleged in Balmain Court to-day to have been asleep at the controls when his [?] collided…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Letters to the Editor Rights on the Road
Sir,—I have heard it stated that road transports must not park in Dean st. The position is that Dean st. is part of a main highway and…
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This is a question which is being asked continually,"says Alderman .R. T. C. Storey, President of the Local Government Association…
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WASHINGTON, Thurs., Canadian and American troops will conduct joint winter training exercises in Yukon and Alaska next January…
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Wodonga-Albury Amateur [?] 45 mile road race on [?] starts at the water tower, Wodong[?] at 2 p.m.. Handicaps are: K. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Melbourne Afternoon Train May Leave Earlier
Victorian Railways Commissioners are contemplating an earlier departure from Albury of the afternoon train for…
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