Late Train to Run Again Success Attends Efforts of Progress Association
THE Leeton Progress Association has succeeded in its agitation to have the South-West mail train put into operation again…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
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Burma Road Vital Points Destroyed Abandonment Being Considered New York, Sunday. (A.A.P.)
The Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the Japanese bombers effectively wrecked all the Burma road bridges across the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motorists' Corner Forgers' Dilemma
While on the subject of colours. I am not the only one who has been seeing red. The overprinted petrol coupons just issued have caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Was Effort R.a.a.f. Recruiting Train Arrives on March 8 Complete Equipment
The R.A.A.F. Recruiting Train will arrive in Wagga in just over three weeks' time—Saturday, March 6, and will leave on the following day…
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Drawn from practically every section of the Southern Railway Division, more than 100 executive officers and other railway employees were present…
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In the handling or their enormous business the N.S.W. Railways employ a staff of over 40,000 men and women who have been trained in a wide range…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early Railway History
In September, 1855 the first railway in New South Wales, from Sydney to Parramatta, a distance of 13 miles, was opened as a State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charge of Illegally Using Motor Vehicle
At the Albury police court yesterday two police officers related how a revolver was fired at soldiers who[?] they were pursuing in the A.M.P. lane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W.a.n.s. Motor Transport and Map Reading Classes to Be Formed
Classes in motor transporting and map reading will be formed by the Wagga Women's Australian National Services and will start shortly. Those…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Willimbong Shire Council Tramps Pester Nurses Old Boots and Socks Placed in Drinking Water LEETON
The monthly meeting of Willimbong Shire Council was held last night, those present being Councillors R. A. Struck (shire president), J. S. Dooley (deputy president), T…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aircraft Engines in U.s. Motor Industry Being Converted for Airplane Manufacture
The first aircraft engines to be made in quantity production in the U.S. by major automobile companies as part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Detectives Traced Trail of Spilt Corn To Junee Shunter’s Residence Railwayman Faces Goods in Custody Charge
Railway detectives, operating in Junee on Sunday morning, tracked a trail of corn from O’Connor’s level crossing to a…
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Seen lying on the roadside, apparently in great distress, and brought to Yackandandah (Vic.) by a motorist Samaritan, a man was recognised by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barry Bridge Again Washington, Wed (A.A.P.)
The Attorney-General (Mr. Jack son) has ordered a new hearing of deportation proceedings against the leader of the Pacific Longshoremen a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Open Column Those Enclosed Roads (To the Editor)
SIR, --"Fair Play's" disjointed howl at my daring presumption as a landowner and taxpayer, in expression approval ol the suggestions made by the President…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Low Level Bridge Over Murrumbidgee River for Conveyance of Stock Petition Presented to Council
Last night the petition which has been circulating for some time urging that a low level bridge be constructed over the Murrumbidgee River near the Hampden bridge for the conveyance of stock was presented to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Notes Extra Engine Mileage
An Interesting point recently discussed by the Lubrication Committee of the American Petroleum Institute was tho little appreciated fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Work Year Albury
In a fortnight 100 men will be engaged on the railway line to Bonegill[?] from Albury, relaying the track with heavier rails for a distance of about 8…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Transfers
Mr. J. Cosgrove, railway night officer, has been transferred from the Junee railway district to the Gou[?]burn district. Mr. J. Kilroy, porte[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Careless Motorists
Motorists who fall to obey the traffic regulations in regard to driving an registrations are only involving them selves in unnecessary expense. Owners are regularly before the court for…
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