Alleged Theft of Outboard Motor
At the Wagga Police Court yesterday. before Mr. E. J. Gibson. JP. Erie William Rynehart aged 27 years. shearer was charged with stealing an…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
988 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 50
Motorists Warned More Parking Restrictions in Wagga Streets
Early in November a warning was issued in these columns to motorists that new bus stops had been installed in Fitzmaurice and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strike Move Fails in Queensland Railways Union
BRISBANE, Sunday: A move to bring the Queensland railways to a standstill to press claims by the enginemen failed at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Violent Storm in Sydney Struck by Lightning Trams and Train
During a violent electrical storm which swept over Sydney late yesterday afternoon, four trains and a train were struck by lightning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Better Than Burma Road"
An American Associated Press despatch from a U.S. air base in India confirms a report that the 600 mile "hump" airline is taking to China…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miraculous Escape on Tomorroma Road
An accident occurred at the 13-mile peg, near Kiley's mail box, on Tomorroma road, at night, when a V-8 sedan car overturned three times…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Notes Type of Springs May Be Altered
It is the belief of some overseas automotive exports that the new conventional leaf type of spring used in automobiles will be strongly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm in Sydney Trams Struck by Lightning
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Minor damage and slight casualties were caused when a violent electrical storm struck Sydney and suburbs last night. The roof…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Latest Second Edition Red Army's Drive Approaches Odessa Railway Germans Called on to Cease Hostilities
LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).—"Powerful Red Army forces are driving hard from the Kiev bulge to cut the Odessa-War-saw railway, the main escape route for Hitlers crumbling Dnieper Bend army," says Reuter's Moscow correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman Appointed As Aerodrome Control Officer
MELBOURNE. Tuesday: Miss Yvonne Righetti has become the first aerodrome control officer in Australia. She has been assigned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Killed Inquiry Into Queensland Road Collision
BRISBANE, Tuesday: Describing a scene in which five passengers were killed and 22 injured in a collision between a tram and…
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It has been computed that the United Nations require approximately 4900 lbs. of steel in fighting equipment to adequately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junee Railway Crossing
The Hill street railway cross a: Junee is closed to the public Better known for over a third of a century as O'cocomes gaves…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbits, Roads, Rates, and Civic Receptions Doings At Monthly Shire Council Meeting Saleyards Purchase-aerodrome Site—post War Works
The suggestion that the principal reason for Shire roads becoming so infested with rabbits was that ninety per cent of adjacent landholders fences were not now rabbit proof, was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Gundagai Shire Council…
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The Overseer to Gundagai Shire Council (Mr Jim Heydon) reported to yesterday’s Council meeting follows.—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Army Captain Found Shot Dead in Train
BRISBANE, Wednesday: An Australian army captain was found shot dead on the floor of a compartment of a leave train at Rockhempton last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram-truck Smash Girl in Hospital 11 Weeks
BRISBANE, Wednesday: A girl who was injured in a train and U.S. military truck smash at Moorooka in September. of which five were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Trespassing
Railway employees who trespass on portions of the railway property where they were not required to go in the performance of their duties are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Gundagai Man Killed Another Seriously Injured Motor Fatality Near Albury
A well known South Gundagai man, Mr Joe Walters, was killed and another, Mr Harry Higham, was seriously injured in a motor accident which occurred in the early hours of this morning near AIbury. Details of the accident are not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cootamundra Man in Train Accident
Mr. Ted. Andrews, of Cootamundra, while travelling from Wagga to Cootamundra on a special train on Wednesday afternoon. injured his foot…
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