Motorists, Take Note
To-morrow (Wednesday), is the last day in which petrol ration tickets may be obtained at Scone Post Office, for the December…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
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Concern At Train Accidents
SYDNEY Wed.—The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, expressed concern at the number of people who were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bad State of Mine Roads Mr. Scanlon to Approach Prime Minister
Following complaint from the Northern Miners President Mr. H. Scanlon, concerning the bad state of the road leading to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Casualties in War Time 30,440 in New South Wales
Since the war began 2,046 people have been killed in road accidents in New South Wales and 28,394 have been injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist for Trial
LONDON Dec. 14.— On a charge of having placed on a country estate in Sussex a spring gun calculated to inflict grievous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Friendly Road
“WESTWARD OF FIFTY”.— Long ago Jonathan Brierley wrote a book and called it by that title. It is descriptive of a…
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E. Hodgson, Chichester, stating that residents had been informed by the carrier (L. Neilson) that he will be unable to come up for their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Travel Facilities. Request for Restoration
Ald. E. C. Humphied mentioned the Inconvenience caused to the public owing to the train restrictions at the Council meeting on Wednesday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roads to Collieries Threat To Stop Bus Services
The director-general of the Commonwealth Land Transport Board, in reply to representations made by Mr. R. James, MHR, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Merriwa and District News Shire Councillor Wants New Motor Tyres. or Can't Continue to Attend Meetings
Cr. H. G. Irwin complained at Tuesday's meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council that he had made application to the Controller of Rubber…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Grandmothers in Railway Gangs
The London Midland-Scottish Railway is employing 100 women platelayers. One gang includes two grandmothers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ingenious “Travelling” Bridge
WASHINGTON Dec. 17.—Composed of a string of wheeled barges, a “travelling” bridge can be drawn across country by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Smash Killed 57
NEW YORK Dec. 17—The latest report on the train smash at Bute, in North Carolina, where two expresses were wrecked,…
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NEW YORK Dee. 19—Frank Belknap, 57, engineer on the north-bound train which struck the derailed south-bound train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Station Blown Down Building Reduced to Ruin
Gurley railway station in the north-west was blown down about 5 p.m. on Friday by a wind-sterm which lasted only a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threatened Railway Strike Averted Guards Withdraw
A mass meeting of railway guards in Sydney yesterday decided against tying up the State's railway system over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legge's Camp Road
Cr. Wilson said that he had been approached in regard to the Legge's Camp road and advised that Messrs. Dickinson and Legge will give…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Powerful Thrusts Italian Fronton Allies Advancing Along Road to Rome(AUSTRALIAN Associated Press)
LONDON Dec. 20—Allied troops, across a 70 mile front, aw now advancing in three powerful thrusts, first by the 8th Army Indian shock troops pushing north from Consralvi, probing deep into the German defences in the Foro…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rover Motors Sick and Social Club's Great Effort. Spirit of Xmas Maintained. Wonderful Toys Presented to Children
One of the most spectacular functions ever staged in Cessnock was provided by Rover Motors Employees' Sick…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russians Open Giant Sweep Two Armies Poised for Decisive Spring Red Army's Threat to Vitebsk-polotsk Railway. London
Correspondents in Moscow point out that two veteran armies are now poised for the decisive spring to the Polish border—Bagramyan's men, who forced a dangerous wedge south from Neval, and also Rokossovsky's White Russian forces, who, after a lull…
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