Railway Trouble In New Zealand
Auckland. January 21.—A large meeting of Auckland members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants which embraces the second division of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
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Railway Men Ill
Three men employed by the N.S.W. Railway Department at Menindee were brought to Broken Hill on Saturday and admitted to Hospital for…
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Moree, January 22.—Earnest John Slick, railway employee; William Bray Bartlett end George Boyce, employee in the local wool appraisement…
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Pressing down the wide valleys of the Shwelli River, which links Burma with China, in the old Burma Road area, Chinese armies advancing eastward and westward have cleared the Burma Road of everything but isolated pockets of Japanese resistance…
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From Frank Dexter on Luzon, January 22.—Expectations that stiff fighting would precede the capture of Tarlac did not materialise. The Americans entered the town without opposition. The previous day the Japs evacuated their positions after setting fire…
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Sir.—Kindly allow me the freedom of your valued press which apparently has been proved by a recent letter from a man of evident practical experience…
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While on his way to work at the Zinc Corporation this morning, W. Church, who was riding a motor cycle, collided with a locomotive at a…
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AUCKLAND.—All trains in the Auckland district stopped running at midnight, except those which had not then reached their destinations…
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SYDNEY.—The electric train smash in which 13 persons were injured near Merrylands station yesterday afternoon is believed to have been caused…
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Sydney, January 24.—A Sydney demand electric train which left Liverpool at 1.[?]1 p.m. became detailed near Merryland-station . The train comprised eight cars,…
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NEW YORK, January 24.—Some estimates place the cost of the new Ledo road from India into Burma at a million dollars a mile, says the…
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Yesterday W. Church, while proceeding to his place of employment at the Zinc Corporation, collided with a locomotive at a crossing leading into the mine…
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A motor lorry, belonging to the Broken Hill Ice and Produce Com pany and left at the rear of the works yesterday, afternoon, was later missed…
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MELBOURNE.—In an effort to pre vent the holding of a stop-work meeting of employees of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramway Board on…
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Only slight damage resulted when the axle on a water tank broke neal Kinalung siding yesterday. The tank and a following one were…
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Sydney, January 25.—A fall inquiry into the electric, train derailment near Merry-lands yesterday has been ordered by the Commissioner of Railways, Mr. Hartigau…
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In the midst of Wednesday's desp[?] heat, and as the Pioneer Bus was moving along the road to Wentworth from B[?] Hill, it was noticed that a man was…
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At the meeting of the City Council hat right Mr. S. J. Davey, chief traffic inspector, sub[?]tted this following reports concerning the Railway Town bus…
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The danger at the Gypsum Street level crossing where the Zinc Corporation railway line passes over the roadway was referred to at last night's…
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THE greed shown by some bus drivers on the Railway Town bus services in grasping every fare to the detriment of other drivers is one of the main causes of the disruption of the service. This allegation is made in a special report by the Traffic Inspector, Mr. S. J. Davey, presented to the City Council last night…
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