Main Roads Grant
A grant of £400 has been provided by the M.R. Dept. for work on Cobb Highway, Mr. T. S. Marshall, Windouran Shire…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
804 stories in Murray's papers · page 20 of 41
No Progress On Moragc Bridge
Mr. Tom Marshall. Windouran Shire Clerk, has a pile of correspondence on the proposed Morago bridge, dating back…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Opened Door While Train In Motion
The danger of train passenger opening carriage doors before the train properly pulls up at a station was emphasised…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Picnic to Take Place at Wagga
At the annual meeting of No. 5 South Railway Employees' Picnic Committee, held at Culcairn, it was decided to hold the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road petrol tanker bursts into flames
MELBOURNE, Fri.: A Wallan dairyfarmer, Albert Drash, dragged the driver of a petrol tanker from a pool of blazing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Cyclists Defended
MELBOURNE, Fri. : There was nothing in the statistical evidence to show that motor cyclists were involved in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway revelations
The new Minister for Transport in NSW (Mr Martin) seems to be making a workmanlike stab at running the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man’s 60 feet fall from train
MELBOURNE, Sun. : A 80 year-old man fell 60 feet from a railway bridge over a creek when he stepped from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COURSING Bridge Street at Albury: punters’ winning night
Albury Greyhound Coursing Club raced to a good crowd on Saturday night. Results favored punters, the majority of the books reporting a losing “break.”…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Widgelli Subdivision Roads
A letter from the Widgelli Soldiers' Committee asking for improved roads in the Widgelli subdivision, and a report by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Slaughter
WITH road casualties at alarming proportions, it is time that people, who wish to continue living on this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Repairs Needed
A letter from the Binya branch Wheatgrowers' Union asking that the Binya-Yenda road be put in order caused a discussion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Courtesy
It was noticed yesterday that the drivers of some heavy transports had the manners to ease over to their side of the yellow line when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evidence on the Road
Straying stock are a menace— as pointed out by Albury Police Inspector Moore recently. Evidence was found on the Hume…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Presentation to retired railwayman
Mr. W. A. Bender, who has been special class yardman at Albury railway yards for the past 16 years, was presented…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vic. motorists must now use hands more !
Victorian motorists will be compelled to gives more hand signals today, when a new Act comes into force. Under the Act—officially…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cycle Speed Governor
A new type of motor cycle speed governor, which limits speed without reducing power, has been demonstrated at the Department…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
A nation-wide check of vehicles in the USA, covering more than half a million cars and trucks, revealed that 32.6 per cent, or…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Competed in 30-Mile Road Race
The Yarrawonga cycle Club conducted a 30-mile handicap inter-club road race at Yarrawonga last Sunday. Twenty-nine riders from Yarrawonga, Corowa, Cob ram and Wangaratta took part in the race. Pictured are (left to right) : Terry Sumner (Cobram), second, Bernie McKay (Yarrawonga), who won the event, W. Toohey (Corowa), who recorded fastest time, N…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Do You Work for 6d. a Day? An Electric Motor Can Do Better
The heaviest day's work you can do on your farm property involves an output, expressed in electrical energy,…
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