New South Wales Railway Picnic Committee
At a meeting of the above Committee held at the Crystal Street Station on Sunday the following were elected to the various committees…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Railway Victim
SYDNEY.—City-bound workers on the Hurstville Railway Station watched horror-stricken as Bruce Dugald Waddell, 23,…
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SYDNEY.—The rapidly increasing shortage of spare parts for motor vehicles has started a black market, in which some…
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Committees to control the various activities at the annual picnic of New South Wales railway employees to be held next…
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Sydney, March 4—A verdict was given in the Supreme Court today by the jury in the case in which two railway union executives were at law. The President of…
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Capetown, March 6.—The goods train following the Royal train and carrying the Royal party's heavy baggage left the rails on the way from Umtata to…
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The owners of Australia's 978,000 autonola[?] will approve the Commonwealth Government's decision to increase the annual grant for roads to the States…
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London, March 7—Ice forming with the night's frost increased chaos in the weather bound belt across Britain. More than 300 roads are impassible and…
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LONDON, March 6.—Icc forming with the frosts tonight has increased the chaos in the weather bound belt areas of…
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The above club will again hold its annual picnic and sports at Penrose Park on Easter Monday. Mr. R. J. Eaton has again been elected secretary…
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The Silverton Tramways Employees' Club Will hold its annual picnic and sports on Easter Monday at Penrose Park. The…
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Two vehicles were considerably damaged and a man injured in a collision on the Aerodrome Road yesterday evening…
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A collision occurred about 6 p.m. yesterday at the intersection of Oxide and Blende Streets between a lorry driven by E. T. Cornaclins of [?] Nicinolls Street and…
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In a collision between a motor cycle and lorry at the intersection of Oxide and Blende Streets at 6 p.m. yesterday the rider of…
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ADELAIDE — Another strike on the Quorn-Alice Springs and Port Pirie-Kalgoorlie Commonwealth railway lines was…
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BATHURST. — Two-year-old Penelope Alexandria Stafford Stanwix, of Riverview, Locksley, was trampled to death by a…
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DUE to rising operation costs the S.A. Railways are unable to restore excursion fares on this line. This information was conveyed to the fortnightly meeting of the B.D.A.A.L.P. last night in correspondence from the secretary to the Railways…
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BENALLA.—D. Hernon (2), of Winton, was critically injured when he wandered on to the track of a miniature train at the Benalla…
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Following a colision between a motor cycle and a car turning into the Technical College in Argent Street, about 7 p.m. last night, the cyclist, Ian…
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ADELAIDE. — Railway employees on the Commonwealth North-East and East-West railways are on strike and supplies…
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