Faulty Brake On Motor Lorry
Before the Police Magistrate Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Edward G. Davis, was charged with…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Heavy Penalty For Motoring Offences
Jack Wallace, 26, labourer, was sentenced to two terms of six months' imprisonment, and fined on a third charge before the…
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PALMER'S CHANNEL, Tues.— The work on the new Cameron Bridge has started again. Mr. Vin Connelly and workmen…
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TOKIO, Tues.—Four packed carriages of a passenger train toppled down a canyon 25 miles west of Tokio…
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CANBERRA, Tues. — Payment to the States of £6,000,000 under the Federal aid roads and works agreement was approved by the…
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Expenditure by the Lismore City Council for public works in the year which ended on December 31 was reported to a meeting…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—There is no possibility of councils in New South Wales being able, to improve their roads, the president…
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The Grafton and South Grafton Chamber of Commerce last night decided to ask the Commissioner for Main Roads to…
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CORAMBA, Wed.—The unsafe state of the temporary bridges spanning Ulong and Wild Cattle Creeks was the…
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The Minister for Air, Mr. A. S. Drakeford, advises that plans are being prepared for a suitable radio aihd lighting installation at Coffs…
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BERLIN, Thurs.—Russian officers stopped the official British night train from Berlin to the West, at the zonal border, on…
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CANBERRA, Fri.—The allocation of £100,000 a year for the road safety campaign illustrated that the country…
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CANBERRA, Fri.—An appeal to the Federal Government for a special grant of money to enable a number of shires in his…
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BELLINGEN, Sat.—Mr. A. Marshall (president) occupied the chair at a special meeting of the board of directors of the Central…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—A man believed to be B. D. Waddell (23) merchant seaman, was killed. by an electric train at Hurstville…
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A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central North Coast Tomato Fruit and Vegetable Society was held at Urunga. The chairman, Mr. A…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—A verdict for defendants was given in the Supreme Court to-day by the jury in a case, in which two…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—"An entire Empire could be defeated over night by one lone aeroplane carrying atomic bombs," said Group Captain Cheshire, who observed the atomic bombing of Nagasaki broadcasting in the B.B.C.'s atom series…
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The first known occasion in which a motor car and an aeroplane have collided in Coffs Harbour was on Wednesday morning…
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BELLINGEN, Wed.—With the temporary low-level bridge accross the Bellinger River at Bellingen under water for the…
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