Improvement Of Cockburn Road P.W.D.Work In District
When members of the staff of the Public Works Department resumed work yesterday after their annual Christmas holidays work on…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1950
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Monty Banks Dies In Train
London, January 10.—Monty Banks, film director husband of Gracie Fields, died suddenly in a train near Sempioni, Italy…
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[?] had a quiet day in South Australia on Saturday as there was no [?] fixture. There was a large [?] at the Murray Bridge…
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A local man George Henry Simmons, died yesterday when the car he was driving overturned on the Wilcannia Road. His wife and child, who were passengers, suffered slight injuries in the accident which occurred about 20 miles…
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When the motor cycle he was [?] crashed into a horse drawn vehicle at the intersection of Gypsum and Newton Streets. Milton Neaylon (23) suffered…
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Melbourne, January 10. — The bodies of two young motor cyclists were found today in a creek bed at the bottom of a hill on the old Leongatha…
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Court sequel to a collision in Zebina Street on October 19 between a utility and a parked truck. occurred before Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., in the Police Court today…
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The rider of a motor cycle was admitted to the Hospital with minor injuries after he had been struck by a motor car at the corner of Blende…
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Because of the large program of roadworks being carried out both near Wentworth and out of Broken Hill it has been decided that the district…
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When members of the staff of the Public Works Department resumed work yesterday after their annual Christmas holidays work on…
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Sydney.—A 13-year-old girl told the police last night that a soldier tried indecently to assault her on the Goulburn-Sydney train, near…
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Referring to what he deems lack of co-operation between the staffs of Sulphide Street and Crystal Street railway stations with regard to the arrival and departure of trains, a traveller summed up the situation as poor show."…
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Adelaide January 15.—When Donald Edwin Cotton (29). motor cyclist, of Clarence Gardens, Adelaide, crashed into five men standing on a street corner…
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Sydney.—Major Francis Edward De Groot, the man who "opened" the Sydney Harbor Bridge ahead of Mr. J. T. Lang in 1932, has left Sydney for good…
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Following correspondence received from Mr. D. McLachlan, of Sydney, the Silver City Motor Cycling Club is endeavoring to bring about the visit of several dirt…
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Adelaide, January 17.—A young married couple injured in a motor cycle accident Saturday died today within two hours of each other. They were…
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Sydney, January 16.—The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside) said today that the Railways Department's labor problems were "in all almost…
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Sydney. â A young woman jumped through a window of a speeding train near Greta last night…
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Sydney.—A magistrate ordered a man to pay threepence compensation to the Transport Department, after an official had demanded £169. The man is Hegfnald Davis. (37)…
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The Main Roads Department proposes to use air photographs to help when considering the possible re-routing of the Cockburn…
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