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Railways, roads & transport, 1939

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Railway Cruise

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 4

A railway cruise, covering Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, departing Sydney on…

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Motor Driver's License Suspended Endangering the Public a Warning to Others

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

John Henry Naughton pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving a motor vehicle in Capper-st., Tumut, on 26th October to the…

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Railway Collision Man Killed in Queensland Passenger Train Damaged Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 9

When a passenger train and a shunting engine collided at Bundamba Station, near Ipswich, to-day, one man was killed and two seriously injured…

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Kyeamba Shire Council Main Roads Works £5417

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 13

Kyeamba Shire. Council at at meeting yesterday adopted a programme for submission for the Main Roads Dept. for [?]7050 'expenditure on…

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Road Safety Education And.enforcement

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 6

This month the flying motor patrol of the State highways by the new ' traffic police corps will be in operation. The motor trucks which…

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Motoring Emergency Transport Australian Measures Arrangements for Acquisition of Vehicles

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 9

As result of tests by Defence Department, it has been found that generally speaking, the haulage of field guns, ammunition limbers, heavy…

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World's Motor Cabs 42,900,000 Vehicles

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 9

According to the latest figures received from America by the N.R.M.A. it is estimated that the would registration of motor vehicles reached…

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Allowed Boy to Drive Narandera Motorist Fined Narandera

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 2

For having permitted his 14-year-old son, an unlicensed driver to drive his motor car, Charles Roy Scurrah was fined £1 with 8/ costs, in default three…

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No New Railway lines Money Wanted for Defence

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 6

Following on press, reports of a Cabinet meeting it now appears to be most unlikely that the Stockinbingal to Junee Reefs railway line will…

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Road Accident Toll Vigorous Police Drive Wholesale Prosecutions to be Launched SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

In a vigorous drive to reduce the toll of road accidents, police this week will launch wholesale prosecutions against pedestrians who are held to…

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Car Strikes Tram Three Severely Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 1

Striking a standard on the footpath, a motor car cannoned violently into a tram in Crown-streel, Surry Hills, yesterday. Three men…

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Railwaymen Suspended Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 4

Two railwaymen have been suspended from duty following Friday's fatal collision at Bundamba, near Ipswich. Railway unions may press for a public…

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MOTORISTS How High Do You Fly? Here’s a Conception of Speed

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 1

How high do you fly when driving? No, this is not a question from a comic strip. Nor is it a radiogram from the planet Mars. It is just a…

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Yarrangobilly Road Proposal

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 1

A letter from Mrs. Day, of the Yarrangobilly Caves House, written to Mr. J. L. Thomson, was forwarded to the Tumbarumba Shire Council…

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Road Safety Education and Enforcement

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 3

This month the flying motor patrol of the State highways by the new traffic police corps will be in operation. The motor trucks which they…

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Deplorable Rock-henty Road Council Pressed to Take Action

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 4

Several public bodies at Henty, Yerong Creek and The Rock communicated with, the Council respecting the deplorable condition of Trunk…

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Negligent Driving Leeton Motor Cyclist Fined

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 1

Henry William Geltch was fined £3 with 8/ costs at the Leeton police court on a charge of having driven a motor cycle in a negligent manner in…

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Inspection of Motor Cars

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 4

Two immediate results of the alarming number of road accidents during the recent holidays are the decision of the police to increase the number of prosecutions in cases where breaches of the regulations have occurred, and the promise of the Premier (Mr. Stevens) to introduce a measure…

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Aerodrome May Come Shire Reverses Decision Negiotations to Be Opened Up Again

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 4

At a recent Shire meeting the Councillors allowed die question of the construction of an aerodrome at Gundagai to lapse…

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Road Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 4

The driver of a trucking unit in almost any commercial fleet is always proud of his safe driving record. And proud of the fleet record…

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