Road Accidents Over Holidays Decrease
SYDNEY.—The death roll of road accidents in N.S.W. between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day totalled 14 killed and 55 injured. This…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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Fifteen Dead In Train Crash
London, January 2.—Fifteen dead were counted after a four hour search of wreckage of the train which was unloading passengers at Lichfield Station…
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Melbourne, January 2.—When a motor cycle crashed into on embankment in Templeton Street, Dunkeld, on Sunday evening, the rider, Ian McNicol…
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ADELAIDE.—Beginning next week, practically a normal service of express trains between Adelaide and Melbourne will be restored…
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London, January 2—Twelve [?] are fo[?] to have been killed and many injured when waggons of captured German ammunition exploded at Marlborough…
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Sydney, January 3—A special committee of the State Parliamentary Labor Party has asked representatives of the Road Transport Workers' Union to suggest…
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New York, January 3.—General Motors Corporation has withdrawn from the inquiry by a fact-finding board into the strike at its plant because it objected to…
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This morning at 10.15 o'clock, the first of the returning mine picnic trains is scheduled to arrive at Sulphide Street Station. The train will be the first of…
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NEWCASTLE.—The stationmaster (Mr. J. Goodsir) was assaulted three times and had the back of his trousers torn out during a wild rush in which…
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London, June 6.—It is believed that at lease ten persons were killed as a result of a collision yesterday between the London-Edinburgh express and part of a goods…
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LONDON, January 6.—Six American deserters, who has been roaming France and Germany for 18 months, living on the parts of train robberies, have been caught, it was announced at Herford, [?], last night. With orders to shoot on sight if…
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Second, special train for employees of the North mine arrived from Adelaide this morning. Although there was a good crowd on board, it was…
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FIRST point in the New Year programme of the Australian Automobile Association, of which the R.A.A. is a constituent member, is to seek removal of the remaining restrictions on private motoring. These are petrol rationing and tyre control…
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No announcement has yet been made of a resumption of the normal train service on the Adelaide S.A. line. With restrictions lifted on the…
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The second North Mine picnic train arrived at Sulphide Street station yesterday morning. The train which was due to arrive hero at 7.25 a.m. was half…
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MELBOURNE.—Alan Alfred McLennan (27), of Burwood, and Keith Angus (22), of Essendon, were burned to death last night…
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Melbourne, January 10.—Two men were bar[?] to death when a motor-cycle and sidecar chasis on which they were travelling burst into flames after striking the…
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Colin Pearson, who resides in Chapple Street between [?]dide and Brazil Streets; John Francis, of 249 Oxide Street, and Reg, Trcloar, whose address was not…
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First picnic train bringing South employees and their families home from their three week's holiday in Adelaide is due at the Sulphide Street station at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Ships Searched For Missing Documents Trams And Church Bells Among The Nazi Loot
The captains' cabins of German merchant ships and German government offices within the British occupation zone were searched by British officers who…
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