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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1940

155 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 8

Moss Vale Show Train Arrangements

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 2

Additional train services will be provided as follows:—Friday, March 1—Goods trains with carriages attached will leave…

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Electric Current for Motors. Kangaloon Residents Seek New Rate

The Southern Mail · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 3

At the meeting of Nattai Shire Council on Wednesday the Electrical, Engineer (Mr. A. J. Mead) gave an explanation of the methods of…

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The Motorists' Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A Notes Petrol Rationing

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 March 1940 · page 3

Main herald of the approach of the Silly Season is the revival of the petrol rationing scare. Possib[?] by the time this reaches print, the…

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Railway Clerk Embezzles Money. Sentence Suspended

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 3

At Bowral Police Court on Friday, before Mr. M. J. Ryan. M.P.. Walter Leslie Roberta, coaching clerk at Bowral Railway Station. was charged…

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New Works for General Motors

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 5

The Prime Minister on 15th February officially opened the new Pagewood Works of General Motors-Holden's Limited…

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Interviews With Death (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 2

In the file of the Road Safety Council there are some amazing stories of violent deaths, and yet all of them have explanations that are almost…

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Railway Clerk Embezzles Money Sentence Suspended

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 2

At Bowral Police Court on Friday before Mr. M. J. Ryau, M.P., Walter Leslie Roberts, coaching clerk at Bowral Railway Station,…

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Railway Bridge on Fire Young Man Fined

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 2

At last sitting of Moss Vale Police Court John Webster faced a charge under the Careless Use of Fires Act. The case was heard before Mr. M.J…

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Shire Roads. Fire-fighting Equip­ment

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 4

The following report was submitted by the Engineer at Monday's meeting of Wingecarribee Shire:— STATE HIGHWAY…

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Child Accidents on Roads (Issued by the Road Safety Council New South Wales)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 2

Request has been made by several country branches of the Road Safety Council that a State-wide appeal should be…

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Fun on the Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 1

"Ma," began the boy, as he entered the railway-carriage at a suburban station with a tired-looking woman, "ma, that man's like a…

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The Rail Motor Mittagong to Moss Vale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 2

A variation in the time table for the running of the rail motor between Mittagong and Moss Vale provides for the train to carry…

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Over 100 Per Cent. Railway Profiteering

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 3

By demanding a fee of sixpence to reserve as seat, when reservation if neither desired nor necessary, the Railway Commissioners increase the…

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Bowral Motor Traffic The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 3

Sir,—Are there any traffic cops in Bowral? My business takes me to many country towns, but I do not know another in which so many…

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A Deathless Easier (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 3

All road users and holiday makers are urgently asked to support the appeal of the Road Safety Council for a deathless Easter on the roads…

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The Motorists' Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A Notes for the Elite

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 4

The slave-driver employed to keep me up to the mark, having informed me for the thirtieth time in twenty minutes, that I have time for just…

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Accident at Railway Crossing. Narrow Escape From Serious Injury

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 2

Two city men, who cane to Robertson to gather blackberries, are in the District Hospital as a result of a peculiar accident when crossing…

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Station Master Killed Struck by Electric Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 2

William Thomas Bousfield, 59, of Hector Street, Kogarah, who had been station master at Sutherland for the past four years, was killed by an…

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Railways Endanger Public Safety. Reckless Use of Fire

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 2

With bush and grass fires raging, throughout the district, the Railway Department set a bad example on Wednesday afternoon by carrying on…

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The Motorists' Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A. Notes Achievement

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 3

Thanks in a very large measure to the splendid support according to the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, and the Road Safety Council, by the…

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