Mr. John F. Spencer Killed Motor Car Crashes into Fence
About 4 p.m. on Saturday last Mr. John Spencer, aged 19, was ed in a motor car accident on the river road at Norrandera between the river…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
1,350 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 68
Minister Asked to Help Secure Water, for Willow Park Railway Said to Have Changed Plans
The Mayor (Aid. C. Leslie) made representations to the Minister for Transport (Mr. W. F. Sheahan) while he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Had Hard Fight Against Illabo
The first fifty minutes batting yielded 45 runs for Illabo in the match against Railway, at which time the opening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Man Killed When Car Overturns on Wagga Road
A shocking fatality occured on the Tumbarumba-Wagra road on Thursday evening, about 26 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shires Fear a Lack of Funds for Road Works
Many shire councils in N.S. Wales would be in a hopeless position this car for funds for road maintenance and improvement, the president of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Man Compelled to Effect Repairs to Road To Enable Passenger Bus To Get Through
Gundagai bus proprietor, Mr. Norm Lymbery, was compelled to take to the pick and shovel last Tuesday and work for the entire day in making sections of the Nangus-Wagga road trafficable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£3500 Damages Against Missing Motorist
SYDNEY, Wed.: Damages of £3500 were awarded to a man in the Supreme Court today for injuries sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quarterly Registration of Motor Vehicles
Primary producers using heavy vehicles in seasonal periods only may find the Transport Department’s…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Better Living Through Better Roads Formation of Australian Road Federation Ltd
There are many organisations, Government and private, which administer to respective State, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Passenger Injured When Truck Capsized on Yanco Road
On Monday afternoon Mr. Peter Reghenzani of Corbie Hill, was driving a 1952 Ford utility truck along the Trunk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting on Sunday Not Regarded As Serious Offence By S.M. Damage to Main Roads Property
At the sittings of the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions last Tuesday the presiding Magistrate, Mr. Wm. Finlay, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quarterly Registration of Motor Vehicles
Primary Producers using heavy vehicles in seasonal periods only may find the Transport Department's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Income of State's Railway Services at Record Level But Expenses Also Increased
In the annual report of the Commissioner of the Railways, it is shown that earnings for the year amounted to the record figure of £36,909,725, an increase of £19,461,962, on the total of the previous year…
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"Shire Councils everywhere are vigorously protesting against the reduced State vote for trunk and main roads. The cuts for 1953 are in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carrathool Shire Protests Against Drastic Reduction in Road Grants
The acting engineer, Mr. J. T. Currie, in his report to the Carrathool Shire Council on 19th January, stated that it had been intended to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarterly Registrations of Motor Vehicles
Primary producers using heavy vehicles in seasonal periods only may find the Transport Department's reintroduction of quarterly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Geo. Titherage Retires from Railways After 40 Years' Service
Mr. George Titheradge retired from the railway service on January 23 after 40 years' service in the loco, department…
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"Shire Councils everywhere are vigorously protesting against the reduced State vote for Trunk and Main…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Correspondence Road Sign (To the Editor)
Sir—I would like to suggest to our Council to put on those welcome signs the slogan: "Drive Slowly, see our Scenery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors and motoring notes Absorbing Story of Rolls-royce Told by English Writer
In an age when luxury is fast giving way to mediocrity, there is one luxury that remains constant—the Rolls-Royce car. So writes Maurice Cheesewright in the following article recently published in "Everybody's" the well known English periodical…
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