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Railways, roads & transport, 1952

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Albury railway engineers not on strike

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 7

At no time were Albury railway engineers instructed to take part in the strike, secretary of the Albury…

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Finley Road May Be Sealed Soon Work Attracts International Interest

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 6

MR. Ian Taylor, Deniliquin Municipal Council engineer, said last Friday that a decision would be made within the next few days regarding the sealing of the four and a half miles of Finley Road…

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Train Crushe[?] 10 Killed

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 1

LISBON, Tues.: [?] huge rocks, loosened by [?] crushed a train near Lisbon yesterday, 10 people were killed and…

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N.s.w. Railways Face £3M. Deficit

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues: The combined Railways and Transport Departments’ deficits for 1951-52 may be more than £3,000,000…

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Motoring Pars and Personalities

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 12

Messrs C. Weiss and L. Bishop have returned after a round trip to Echuca, during which they arranged an itinerary for…

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Trucks in smash on bridge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 8

Two heavy motor vehicles figured in a spectacular smash on the bridge over the railway line on Hume Highway between…

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Vic’s. most modem bridge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 5

Built to American design, the most modern concrete road bridge in Victoria crosses the Yackandandah Creek on the…

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Panic in Train

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thurs.: When short circuit caused a fire aboard an electric suburban train on Manhattan bridge, the…

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Henty Midgets to Train

The Observer · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 8

There will be football training for the Henty Midgets on Saturday, commencing at 2 p.m. All Midgets, aged 14 years and…

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They Observe Road Rules

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 2

If Albury motorists, renowned for observing “Rafferty’s Rules”, took a lead from Albury bus drivers in the highway code there…

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11 weeks’ road toll—170 lives

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thurs.: In the first 11 weeks of this year 170 persons had been killed in avoidable road accidents in NSW, the…

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Motor cyclist badly hurt

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A Narrandera motor cyclist was seriously injured tonight when he hit a truck after his machine skidded on a…

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Girls’ “tramp” took them to N.Z. : Will “tramp” out of Albury to-day

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 2

“Tramp, tramp, tramp along the highway” has been the theme song for two young girls visiting Albury—they leave this morning for Melbourne, again tramping along the highway…

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Jean and Joan Starting Off on the Final Stage of Their Long “Tramp”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 April 1952 · page 1

It was only a hop, step and jump to experienced “trampers” Jean Anderson and Joan Barker to reach…

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Six die on Victorian roads at week-end

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Six people were killed on Victorian roads during the week-end. Details of two of the fatal accidents had not…

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Back to Work Order for N.s.w. Railway Strikers?

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: A move to have striking railway workers ordered back to work is likely to be made at a compulsory conference tomorrow before the Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Austin). The Railways Department is expected to…

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Lesson From Railway Strike

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

The disastrous strike by fitters at railway workshops in Sydney, which at the best will cost N.S.W. a couple of million pounds, attracts attention to a much-needed alteration in the arbitration laws of the Commonwealth…

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Million dollar bridge wrecked by ice

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 8

SWIFT CURRENT (Sas.), Mon.: A million-dollar bridge, which took two years to build and which was the only link…

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All Roads Lead to Sydney Royal Show

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

MISS EVON GREGORY of Narellan with her prize winning pony at the Sydney Royal Show this week. The Sydney Show is the Mecca of thousands of country and city folk who gather to see this display of our agricultural wealth. Radio listeners to-day heard the American beef shorthorn judge, Mr. Clinton J. Thomson, acknowledge the Sydney Royal as the greatest show of its kind…

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Fines Follow Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 16

As a requel to a road accident, Alfred Harold Edmonds, 48, shearer and rabbit trapper, was fined £10 in defeault distress in…

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