Violent Rioting Follows Increased Tram Fares Johannesburg
ONE African was shot dead and four policemen were injured when race rioting flared up in Johannesburg last night. Tram cars and other vehicles…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
859 stories in Murray's papers · page 31 of 43
Widow’s Fatal Bridge Fall
BRISBANE, Sun.: Mrs Olive Fleming, 28, widow, who fell 40 feet from the girder of Storey Bridge on Saturday night, died…
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BRISBANE, Sun.: A woman was seriously injured when she fell 40 feet from an arch of the Storey Bridge to the roadway…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Police have been instructed to pay strict attention to speeding by heavy lorries, including those with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West’s Motors Robbery Man Before Court
Sequel Co a robbery at West’s Motors, Kiewa st., on or about August 31 last was the arrest at Walwa on September 2 of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Football Albury Club to Train To-morrow
Albury Club players are reminde[?] that at training will take place at [?] sportsground tomorrow evening. [?] muster is expected, as South…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Holiday Road Deaths Set New Record
NEW YORK, Tues.: Death set a new Labor Day week-end record on United States highways with 309 traffic fatalities to 5…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hints for Motorists
Be prepared for the motorist who ignores stop signs. Slow down in advance of all intersections. Expect a car [?]…
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MINISTERIAL announcement has been made of intention to amend the existing traffic laws to require drivers of heavy vehicles to have a special licence and to provide for a change aimed at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Motorists’ Prayer
Since it was fist published in [?] before the last war, the [?] prayer, written by “A [?] Parson” has gone round…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →[?]Rail Tricycle Crashes Into Stock Train [?]ne Killed, Three Injured
LITHGOW, Wed.: One man was killed instantly and three others injured when a fast moving stock train crashed head-on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Highway to Link Corowa, Finley, Teniliquin Jerilderie-deniliquin Trunk Route Reduced to Main Road
The road between Jerilderie and Deniliquin, formerly a trunk route, has been reduced in statue to a main road…
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[CANBERRA, Thurs.: Municipalities State road authorities were [?] spending the money provided [?] Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Trap for Motorists in Young St
Police regard the Guinea Young street intersection as the most dangerous in Albury because vision is obscured by high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amusements “Waterloo Bridge”
With Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor perfectly learned in the starring roles, “Waterloo Bridge” opens a three days season at the Regent today. Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Drivers of Land Train
Pictured here are the drivers and assistants of the land train. From left to right they are: Messrs. Sid Ballard, Jack McKees (overseer of Boonoke), Eric Ballard, Roy Bullen, Jack Kerr, Allan Bauman, Erie McDonald, Brian Hawes (jackeroo at Boonoke) In…
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The new air-conditioned Riverina Express, which will arrive in Albury tonight shortly after 10 o’clock on its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diesel Land Train Leaves Boonoke
Here are five trucks photographed at Boonoke Station, Conargo, as they were about to leave for Longreach, Queensland, loaded with £10,000 worth of stud rams. The land train was necessary during the recent strike when no N.S.W. trains were running to shift stock and belonged to Somerset Transport Co,, Muttamurra, Queensland. The trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Why Are Council Roads Breaking Up?
"This is a question which is being asked continually" says Alderman R. T. C. Storey, President of the Local Government Association of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Kills Man
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Baroja Tasich, a Yugoslavian, who held a partnership in a fishmongery business at Sunshine, was killed…
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