Mathoura News Ratepayer’s Offer Appreciated Will Grade Six Miles of Road
The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3
“THIS Is the best thing that has turned up since I’ve been at the council table,” remarked Cr. H. B. Berryman on Tuesday’s meeting of Murray Shire Council when Cr. E. J. Glenn told councillors that Mr. Bert Vagg…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Works Plan to Cost £25,000. Municipal Council Approves Ambitious Programme
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 5
ALTHOUGH councillors expressed some doubt whether finance would be made available, the Hay Municipal Council at its meeting on Tuesday approved a works programme for the 1950-51 year to cost an estimated £25,000. The programme…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Silencer on Motor Cycle; Man Fined £2
Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 14
John Allan Roberts, of [?] st, Wodonga was fined £2 in default distress at Wodonga court yesterday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Cyclist “Blots Copybook” After 14 Years
Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 14
A man who said he had been riding motor cycles for 14 years without a conviction was fined £4 in default distress at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Traders and Show
Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 2
Mr H. Wood, president of Albury branch of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce said yesterday that a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Kills New Australian
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 10
[?] Fri.: A New Australian was killed this morning when he was struck by a train at Otford…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Has Bad Train Hold-up
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 11
SYDNEY, Fri: Worst train holdup in Sydney for years occurred today when section of a line collapsed at Auburn and signals…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Adelaide Was Without Trams
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 4
ADELAIDE, Fri.: Adelaide was without trams for several hours today while 1500 tramway employes attended a stop-work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fine News Round-up ‘Plane Hits Train
Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 15
SYDNEY, Sun.: An Ansett Airways DC 3 aircraft with 15 passengers and a crew of three on board crashed into a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fell From Train; Loses Leg
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Leo White, 35, of Greenwich st., Sydney who fell out of the Adelaide express at Warrenheip last night, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Road Deaths in Few Weeks
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 11
A grim pointer to the sharp increase in road fatalities is the list of seven inquests awaiting hearing in Albury and Wodonga. All except one of the killed were victims of road accidents. Some years ago deaths…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Finance Available for Roads Labour Is Problem Says Treasurer
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 4
SHORTAGE of labour and materials and not lack of finance has been responsible for the lag in construction and maintenance of roads. In the three years immediately before the war the avarage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →States Can Prevent Interstate Motor Transport
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 2
The High Court, in Melbourne, last week, by a four to two majority, held that State authorities have the right to prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Killed in Tram-truck Crash
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 11
ADELAIDE, Monday : Alfred Limpis, of Sinclair street, Port Adelaide, was killed instantly when the truck in which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Prisoner’s Train Break
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 1
Police at Albury, Wagga, and Cootamundra have been alerted following the break by a prisoner while under escort…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycle Club Notes
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 14
The sports meeting organised by the Riverina Sporting Car and Motor Cycle Club last Sunday gave competitors and onlookers an…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Vehicle Lighting Defects
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 14
The first car light test for 1950, conducted in Sydney by the traffic police in conjunction with the NRMA, revealed even more…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 13
Mr. Harry Wood, of Riverina Motors and Motor Cycles, is in Melbourne. A new agency appointment in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →For the Motorist Handing Over a Hudson
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 13
Mr Bert Seaton, of Seaton Agencies, handing one of the latest model Hudson cars to a buyer who came 3000 miles to make the purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →No Probe Into Plane-Train Collision
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 7
CANBERRA, Wed.: There will be no public inquiry into the collision between a plane and a coal train at Mascot airport on…
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