Concessions For Tram Men Judge's Criticism of Young Strikers Sydney, February
While granting many of the claims made by the Tram and Omnibus Employees' Union for improved conditions and overtime rates following the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
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Motor Cyclists Killed MELBOURNE, February 7
When the motor cycle he was riding collided with a military car at the intersection of Belmore and Burke Roads, East Kew, on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Cuts Off Woman's Feet Sydney, February 8
Mrs. Agnes Leta Lawrence, of Lakemba, had both feet cut off when she fell from a train in the tunnel near the Town Hall station today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Strike In Sydney And Newcastle Of Tram And Bus Men SYDNEY, February 8
By an overwhelming majority a mass meeting of night shift tram and bus employees held today decided against a strike tomorrow. This decision was also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lucky Escape Train Hits Lorry Sydney, February 9
Another level crossing accident occurred today when a motor lorry was struck by a Carlingford-Clyde train at Camella. The lorry, which was driven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram Dispute Newcastle Reverses Decision Sydney, February 9
Although mass meetings of members of the Tram and Bus Employees' Union in Sydney on Monday night and yesterday favored the holding of a ballot next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Cross Roads" at Ozone Tonight
The new change of program at Ozone tonight will be headed by "Cross Roads" in which William Powell and Hedy [?]morr are the featured players. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wanaaring Road Residents' Protest
The road from Wanaaring to Wilcannia—or vice-versa—has long been known as "The Road of Many Gates," and it is said that when one of the cars from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roman Appian Way Oldest Military Road
The famous Roman Applan Way probably the oldest military road in the world, is now hot in the news owing to its being the objective of the Allied 5th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bad Spot On Hill-Mildura Road
The Broken Hill-Mildura road is in a very bad condition in the Popiltah area. On Sunday last, a party motoring from Mildrua to Broken Hill got…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child's Lucky Escape Fell From Motor Lorry
Unknown to the driver of a motor lorry a three-year-old child was standing on the running board of the vehicle when he started up from a house in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death From Motor Cycle Fall
James Allan Cameron (33), a married man employed as overseer of Mt. Victor Station, near Waukaringa, about 25 miles out from Yunta, died in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Re-hearing of Tram Men's Claim Sydney, February 11
In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day Judge Drake Brockman rejected an application for the rehearing of the Bus and Tramway Union claim. After…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Fatal Gravel Skid on Motor Cycle
A GRAVEL skid was given as the reason for a fail by James Allan Cameron from a noter cycle. Mr. Cameron was overseer on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Junction Captured Leningrad-Novgorod Railway Cleared LONDON, February 13
The Moscow communique announces the capture in the Luga sector of the important railway junction of Boterskaya, 15 miles east from Luga on the railway to Novgorod, as well as 40 other inhabitated places…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Road Work
Council has finished its work on the Menindee Road from Argent Street to the North Mine, turn-off. It is hoped that this section will be given a bitumen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Engine on Adelaide Train Breaks Down
The fact that the engine on the Adelaide express was working on Umberumberka water instead of the water from the railway dam lead to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Railway Earnings
SYDNKY.—State railway earnings in the six months ended December amounted to £17,721,712, an all-time record. Passenger journeys during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hold-Up Ends On North-South Railway Line
PORT AUGUSTA.—Traffic has been resumed on the north-south line after a hold-up of over a week caused by heavy floods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerodrome Construction in Quick Time Melbourne, February 15
A RAAF mobile works wine holds a record for aerodrome construction in New Guinea. With 27 days of work of 24 hours a day it turned virgin Kuna[?]…
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