Closing of Road Between Cessnock and Branxton
Travellers on the above road are advised that in the very rear future the Lovedale Pokolbin road between Cessnock Prapxton and Chick's Lane…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
1,225 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 62
Curtailment of Train Services Travellers Did Not Heed Warning
The Commissioner of Railways, Mr. Hartigan, said this week that despite his announcement that train services would be severely curtailed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late News Axis Claims Occupation of Rostov. Nazis Flooding Lower Don Basin. Russians Withdraw From Northern Sector. Operations Quiet at Voronej. New Battle for Egypt Still Raging. Tanks and Motorised Infantry Try to Get to Grips. London
It is claimed by Berlin Radio that some Axis formations have already reached the centre of Rostov, the fall of which is inevitable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women Railway Workers
SYDNEY Friday.— Permission to employ women as station port ticket collectors, motor car. and lorry drivers is being sought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fewer Motor Cars
Since November, 1941, registrations of privately owned motor cars in Australia have been dropping at the rate of 9000 a month. Last May there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Tyres for All United States Offer
The rubber industry has presented to the Unted States Government a plan designed to provide two years' supply of tyres…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Friendly Road
ALL THAT GLITTERS.— Two people recntly came asking the writer to listen to their story of strained rela[?]with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by Passing Train
SYDNEY Saturday.— Clifford Cyril Kelly, 25. of Kogarah, a well-known-State athlete and footballer, was fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Tubeless Motor Tyre
The cabled report from New York that one of the leading tyre manufacturing companies of America is working on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post War Motor Car Problems
The post war problems are going to be vast and varied in a world which probably will be radically different society, economic,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leaned Out of Train Struck on the Head
A well-known State athlete, Clifford Cyril Kelly, 25, of Kogarah, was fatally injured on Friday night. He was on a Tempe-bound train and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Every Day a Train Load of Welded Tanks Development Of Rubber Substitute
General Motors Corporation has revealed that their new tank factory has been completed and is now producing a trainload of welded tanks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arrest Follows Motor Accident
SYDNEY Monday.— Following an accident in which two men were knocked down and injured, another man, alleged to be the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weddings. Unger—bridge
The Salvation Army Church was the scene Of a very pretty wedding on Saturday, June 18th, when the marriage of Gearaldine Elaine, youngest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed by Train
GOSFORD Tuesday—A man whose name police believe was A. A. Baker, was killed by a train at Niagara Park, four miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Moscow-Caucasus Railway Threatened German Bridgeheads Across Lower Don
Furious battles are raging along the Don River, 125 miles northeast of Rostov, as the Germans attempt to establish and widen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Tail Lights on Motors
CESSNOCK Tuesday.—A number of motorists and cyclists appeared at Cessnock Court today on a charge of having no tall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Act Breach
CESSNOCK Tues.—Joseph C. Rowbottom, of Ann-st., Cessnock, was fined 4/6 with 5/6, costs, at Cessnock Court today for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured on the Railway
When he was [?] between a truck and platform at the goods-shed this morning while [?] and a place of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Repairing Melville Bridge
CESSNOCK Wednesday—The need tor repairs to Melville Ford bridge because of the inconvenience to farmers and dairymen in…
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