Suicide in Motor Car
ADELAIDE, Sun.: A salesman shot himself dead in his car in the heart of the city at 10 a.m. yesterday after being…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1954
974 stories in Murray's papers · page 26 of 49
Bernie Taylor First in Road [?]
Bernie Taylor won the Cycle Clubâs road race on Saturday afternoon and re[?] fastest time of [?] minutes two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Police trying to reduce road toll”
An Albury motor cyclist on four traffic charges was told by Mr. McDonald, S.M., that the police were trying to reduce the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →P.p. Board Supports Gunbar - Booligal Road Opening Scheme
THE Hay P.P. Board decided to advise the Waradgery and Carrathool Shires that it supports the scheme for opening a direct road between Booligal and Gunbar. The Board, it was stated, would take steps to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bama Road “Worst in Shire” Complain Murray Ratepayers
Landholders yesterday described Bama Road as the âworst corrugated road in tie shireâ but the engineer, Mr. M. R. Cover countered this by saying Department of Main Roads officers had said on a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Tram and Bus Losses Country People Have to Pay
The State Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr. S. D. Dickson, M.L.A.) said last week that it seemed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Motor Cyclist’s Death
âAbout 50 people attended the funeral in Albury on Saturday of Kevin John Young, 19, who died in Wagga Base Hospital on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Senseless Slaughter on Roads Must Stop
This senseless slaughter of people on the roads of this State continues with terrifying monotony. Between January 1 and 9…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dusty, Bumpy Road for Redex Drivers
Soft, treacherous sandy tracks like this confronted Bedex drivers on the âhorrorâ section of the round Australia trial between Katherine and Top Springs. All except the leaders had to drive âblindâ often…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Albury and district motorists are now receiving the free booklet âSafe Motoring,â which is being issued to 50,000 NSW owners…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motoring Expenses Allowed As Tax Deductions
All motoring expenses incurred producing assessable income are allowable deductions for income tax purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Heavy Tram and Bus Losses Country People Have to Pay
The State Deputy leader of the Country Party (Mr. S. D. Dickson, M.L.A.) said today that the latest deficit on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railways and Fires
Livestock, crops and the produce of the country were as much a public asset as State owned enterprises like…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roads and Finance
The Labor Party proposal on the allocation of petrol tax money would revive centralised and costly supervision of the grants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Secures for Bridge
The Waradgery Shire Council yesterday was informed that a loan of £10,000 would be available to it from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gunbar-Booligal Road Scheme
Waradgery Shire has taken steps to have the direct Booligal-Gunbar Road within its boundaries declared a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wakool Road to Stay Main Road : Not to Become Highway
MAIN Road 388 from Deniliquin to Wakool is not to become a State Highway. State Minister of Transport…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Sealing Preparations Shire Buying New Plant
WARADGERY Shire Council yesterday accepted tenders for new items of plant required to carry out sealing work in the vicinity of Hay. The Council was told of increased activity in relation to the sealing work, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Well-known Henty Farmer Fatally Injured In Road Accident
A well-known and highly respected identity, Mr. Friedrich Wilhelm Lubke, aged 73 years, farmer, died on Saturday night after being struck by a car on the Henty-Cookardinia Road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Correspondence Before Monthly Meeting Of Culcairn Shire Council Start Made on Sealing of District Roads
Included in the correspondence before the July meeting of Culcairn Shire Council, held at Culcairn on Monday, was a request from Henty A.P.P.U. branch asking Council to seriously consider sealing its portion of the…
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