Letters to the Editor Motor cycle and car collision at Lavington
Sir,—Permit me, through your columns, to say how disgusting, cruel and callous are reports and pictures of fatal accidents…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
804 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 41
Road Block for Cattle Over River
Pleuro-pneumonia among cattle at Bethanga was reported this week and appropriate precautions have been taken to control the disease. In the picture workmen are building a cattle pit at the junction of Tallangatta, Talgarno and Weir roads, Bethanga. At right of the pit is a barbed wire fence. A gate to allow horse-drawn vehicles to pass will be erected on the left…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dr. Stoney to train with Tigers
Welcome visitor to Albury Football Clun’s dressing room on Saturday was Dr. John Stoney, the noted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Victoria’s Bad Road Record
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Eight deaths during the week-end brought the number killed in road accidents in the past eight…
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NEW CAMBRIA (Kansas:, Mon.: Six persons, including an entire family of four, were killed yesterday in a collision between their…
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Many mourners yesterday attended the funerals of two of the victims in Saturday’s fatal crash on the Kiewa road,…
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Mr Flood pleaded guilty for Reuben George Wooden, of Sunshine avenue, Wagga, who was charged with carrying goods…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Husband, Wife Dead in Road Crash
The driver, William Corcoran, 45, Shore ave.. Kingsford, died on his way to Wagga Base Hospital after this car had been involved in an accident at Little Billabong, 56 miles north of Albury, on the Hume Highway, on Monday afternoon, whilst his wife Ivy, who was critically injured, died in Wagga Hospital yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious unrest is feared among railwaymen
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Serious unrest among railwaymen in four States is feared by trade union officials following the rejection yesterday of claims by railway metal tradesmen for higher…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Mr E. Shleuiter, service representative of General Motors-Holdens, together with Mr J. Lingham, sales representative in this…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woman injured ; knocked down by motor cycle in Dean street
A young woman was knocked down by a motor cyclist, crossing Dean st. early yesterday afternoon, and admitted to Albury…
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Tenders for the second and third stages of the bridge over the Murrumbidgee Raver at Maude are expected to be…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. : The High Court today declared valid the N.S.W. road levy on motor vehicles engaged in interstate carriage of goods. The judgment was a majority of four to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Landholders to Protest on Closing Of Railway Line
A Railways Department official will be invited to explain to a public meeting of landholders in the Mangoplah, Westby and Burrandana areas the reasons for the closing of the railway line from Westby to Mangoplah,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nine week-end Victorian road deaths
MELBOURNE, Sun.: For the second week-end in succession road deaths in Victoria reached the tragic total of nine killed. In additions, a 22-months-old boy was killed when he was accidentally run over by his father’s truck at his home at Apollo Bay…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Four persons were killed in weekend road accidents in NSW. Two men were killed and a third…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Successful motor cyclist
At the motor cycle races conducted at Yarrawonga by the Yarrawonga Motor Cycle Club recently, in aid of the Infant Welfare Centre, Jim Orr (above), Yarrawonga, was one of the most successful riders, winning the all-powers’ handicap and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mulwala-Savernake Road
Work commenced yesterday morning of tarring portion of this road and motorists are specially requested by the shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal Road Works
The work is now in progress of surfacing and bitumenising Whitehead Street, and on completion of that job the resettling of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Underground Train Crash
Nine people were killed and many injured when a collision occurred between two trains the Central London underground railway at Stratford, East London. The collision occurred in a tunnel, making rescue work extremely difficult. Photo shoes a rescue worker making his way through the tangled wreckage of one of the trains…
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