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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1944

229 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 12

Road Accidents More Core Essential

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 September 1944 · page 2

Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of New South Wales for the year ended June 30 last totalled 1150, causing the death of 152…

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Theft From Goods Train Youth Sent to Gaol

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 September 1944 · page 1

A sentence of three months’ imprisonment in Goulburn Gaol was the sequel a stealing charge heard at the Moss Vale Police Court last…

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Motor Cars May Be Made in Australia

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 September 1944 · page 1

Minister for Trade and Customs, Senator Keane, said in Melbourne on Monday that he is confident that a serviceable motor car…

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Road Acciudents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1944 · page 1

Road accidents in country towns and sural areas of New South Wales for the year ended June 30 last totalled 1150, causing the death of 152…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Deterioration of Idle Cars

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1944 · page 4

Commenting upon a report that a great many Jacked-up cars in England have required £20 to £50 spent upon them before they could be again…

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For Rural Roads New Surfacing Compound

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 September 1944 · page 4

In view of the fact that Australia has thousands of miles of unsurfaced rural roads, many of which become almost unusable by motor…

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More Child Victims of Road Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1944 · page 1
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Although there was a substantial reduction in the number of persons killed and injured in road accidents last year, the figures for children…

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Both Needed Road and Rail Transport

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 September 1944 · page 2

According to a recent statement made by Councillor C. Holdsworth, a leading executive of the Commercial Motor Users Association of Great…

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Train Crash in U.S. Twenty Casualties New York. Thursday (A.AP.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 September 1944 · page 1

At least 20 were killed and injured mostly soldiers, when a fast moving train crashed into a stationary mail train in fog near Terry Haute,…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Petrol Sought for Holidays

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 1

The N.R.M.A, has asked the Liquid Fuel Control Board to grant a double issue of petrol to motorists for use over the Christmas and New Year…

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Rhine Bridge Captured London, Thursday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 1

British and American troops, after extremely bitter fighting, have: captured intact the main bridge over Rhine at Nijmegen…

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N.S.W. RAILWAYS Surplus £754,054 Record Passenger Traffic

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 2

The State Railways in the year ended June 30 last, earned £34,501,192. Working expenses were £27,535,343, leaving a balance of profit on…

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Same Sad Story Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 2

The reports on read accidents to children in New South Wales during the last few months contain few fresh features. It is the old sad story of a…

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Work by Road Gang

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 1

The Town Clerk reported at last meeting of the Municipal Council that the following work had been carried out by the road gang during…

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How More Children Died Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 2

Here are some pathetic facts from road accident reports in New South Wales:— A five-year-old girl, together with…

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Taxation of Motor Vehicles

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. reports that, in the move by British interests to secure a new Governmental approach to the question of taxation of motor vehicles…

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New South Wales Railways

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 3

In the annual report of the Commissioner for Railways. Mr. J. T. for the year ended Junee 30 last. presented to Parliament…

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Same Sad Story. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 1

The reports on road accidents to children in New South Wales during the last few months contain few fresh features. It is the old sad story of a…

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How More Children Died. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 4

Here are some pathetic facts from road accident reports in New South Wales:— A five-year-old girl, together with…

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