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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1939

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Radio Interference Motor Vehicles Effect

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 3

Most motorists nowadays have radio sets in their homes, a large percentage of the outfits being capable of shortwave. wave reception. In listening- in on…

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Raise Eye-level To Improve Visibility of Motor Driver

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 2

The extent to which visibility from the seat of a motor car or truck can be improved by raising the eye-level a few inches, per medium of elevating…

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Railway Deficit

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 2

The Railway Commissioner, Mr Hartigan, states that the Railway delicit at the end of the financial year in June next would be approximately…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Dual Purpose Car Park

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 1
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Holborn (London) is to have an underground car park which, in times of war, will be a bomb shelter holding 77,000 people. As a car park…

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Motor Vehicle Production

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 1

Motor vehicle production in the United Slates and Canada during 1938 was approximately 2,635,000 cars and commercial vehicles, according…

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Increase in Railway Fares

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 1

Suburban and country railway fares in New South Wales will be increased by 10 per cent. on March 1. There will also be an increase of 10 per cent. in…

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Motor Car Rallies Tours Abroad

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 4

So successful were the two Motor Car Rallies from London to U.S.A. and Canada in 1936, sponsored by the Junior Car Club (England), that a…

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Woman’s Death Knocked Down by Motor Car Driver Absolved From Blame Coroner’s Remarks

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 3

The Canberra Coroner (Colonel J. T. H. Goodwin) on Tuesday conducted inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Alice Maud Ponoy, of Russell…

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Local and General Opening of Moruya Aerodrome

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 2

We have received an invitation from the Eurobodalia Shire Council to attend the official opening of the new aerodrome at Moruya on…

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Girl Dies Following Road Accident Coroner to Enquire

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 1

Edith Mary Clarke, aged 16, of Crest Road (off Uriarra Road) Queanbeyan, died in the Queanbeyan District Hospital shortly…

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Trees as Road Safety Aids

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

The judicious planting of trees and shrubs on American highways has had a marked effect on roid safety according to a report received by the…

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Mount Fairy Road Council Wants Grant

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

In reply to a letter from the Shire clerk, Mr. W. W. Hedges. M.L.A, stated that the Minister of Works and Local Government would not be…

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Araluen Tragedy Mr. M. Currie Killed in Motor Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

News of the tragic happening at Araluen on Tuesday night, in which a well-known, resident, Mr. Michael Currie, a member of one of the…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Pan-American Highway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Another section of the Pan American highway has just been opined It consists of 100 miles of concrete and asphalt roadway in Peru, and…

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Notes and News Opening of Moruya Aerodrome

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 6

The official opening of Moruya's fine new aerodrome was performed by the Deputy-Premier, the Hon. Mr. Bruxner, on Saturday afternoon in…

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Shire Roads Engineer's Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 8

Mr. Boult reported at Tuesday's meeting of the Shire Council as follows:— "There is very little to report this…

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Araluen-moruya Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 4

At Tuesday's meeting of the Shire Council Mr. A. F, Mallon, Merrlcumbene, wrote asking for repairs to the Araluen-Moruya road under Councils…

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