Armidale Rural Women Workers. Success As Motor Mechanics
Some little time ago some of the girls from the Agricultural Bureau Leadership Camps in the Gunnedah district, undertook a regular course of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
1,225 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 62
Comment on Railway Priorities
“There are one or two aspects in connection with the new priority table for railway travel which [?] should receive immediate…
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It was authcritatively stated on Wednesday that the State Railways, after providing for depreciation, maintenance and replacement of…
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CESSNOCK Saturday— Injured t the right knes lacers left [?] and abrasions to the head were suffered last nigh…
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MELBOURNE Sat. — When military police raided a troop train between [?] service camp recently nearly 300…
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NEWCASTLE Saturday—Three prisoners, being escorted by two warders, to the State Penitentiary at Long Bay by train…
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Nearly 300 unopened bottles of whisky were seized by military police when they raided a troop train between Melbourne and a service camp…
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Warders V. E. Baxter and W. Martin, who were escorting three prisoners from Long Bay Goal to East Mainland Gael on Saturday, were…
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NEW YORK July 5.— The usual road fatalities and other forms of violent death usual on recent Independence Days, drop…
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A motor cyclist who croshed into a coal train on the Faxton level crossing on Friday night and was thrown ben[?]th morning trucks…
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SYDNEY Monday.—An unidentified 15-year-old boy was killed instantly by a tram at Waverley yesterday. The youth was…
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NEWCASTLE Monday.—Pleading guilty to having driven a motor-car while he was under the influence of liquor, Charles Esmond…
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The Federal Minister for Transport (Mr. Lawson) declared today that so far he had not had a single complaint about railway…
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Three prisoners, being escorted by two wardens to the State Penitentiary at Long Bay by train, reached Waratah railway station, and in…
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Whilst the West Maitland police were busy on Thursday night giving the Aberdeen hotels the "once-over" thieves on a goods train between…
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Shortly before 7. o’clock last night, a bus travelling from Cessnock to Maitland struck three horses straying on the road…
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The Minister for Transport, Mr. O'Sullivan, in investigating a complaint by the secretary of the A.R.U., Mr. Lloyd Ross, that workers in a…
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SYDNEY Wed.—[?] 5, who lived in Mitchell-road Alexandria was killed instantly by a motor lorry in Henderson…
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All railway traffic was held up for three hours on the Worth Coast line on Monday because an axle of a railway motor pay-car snapped near…
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SYDNEY Wednesday.— The reduction in train [?] a leading railway official pointed out to-day was saving both fuel…
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