Evaded Train Fare
NEWCASTLE, Tues. — On September 16. Thomas James Hanna a soldier, travelled in a train from Strathfield to Cockle Creek…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 49
Train Scalers Pay £86 Excess Fares
NEWCASTLE Tuesday.—Train scaling, it was said, in the Summons Court to-day, was increasing on the Sydney-Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Restrictions. Commissioner Answers Criticism
The following statement has been prepared by the Commissioner for Railways,Mr.T.J.Hartigan, in answer to many hostile criticisms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Restrictions
The following statement has been prepared by the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, in answers to many hostile criticisms of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Motor Cyclists Killed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When a motor cycle skidded 300 yards and crashed sideways into two goes trees on the H[?] Highway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycle And Car Collide
NEWCASTLE Tuesday,—When his motor-cycle collided with a car at the corner to Cromwell-st., and Alma Rd., New Lambton, this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Grip In Holland Tightens Second Army Converging On Vital Road Centre Australian Associated Press
LONDON, October 25.—Latest fighting in south-west Holland has brought British troops within 3000 yards of Tilburg, a communication bob in the Dutch lowlands It has also increased their grip on Hertogenbosch, vital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fighting on Outskirts of Tilbug Second Army Cuts Road in Three Places
British troops last night were fighting on the eastern outskirts of Tilburg, says Reuter's correspondent, who states the British Second Army, after capturing Vucht, cut the Tilburg-Vucht road in three places and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nazis Break and Flee In Holland Second Army Cuts the Tilburg Road Australian Associated Press
LONDON, October 26.—German resistance south of V[?]cht, three miles south of Hertogenbosch, and important Dutch road and rail centre, has crumbled, and yesterday afternoon the [?]nised enemy forces broke and fled down the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of Louis Renault Motor Manufacturer
Louis Renault, motor manufacturer, has died of heart failure in a Paris hospital, where he had been transferred from prison…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclists Urged to Ride Carefully (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Young pedal cyclists are prominent in the road casualty lists of the State In resent months and in every instance the exercise of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclists Are in the News. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Young pedal cyclists are prominent in the road casualty lists of the State-in recent months and in every instance the exercise of cave and an awareness of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chamber of Commerce After Connecting Train on Friday Nights
Singleton and District Chamber of Commerce decided last night to make representation to the railway authorities to have a connecting train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-war Works Railway Trucking Yards
A subway under the railway line at Telarah, where the embankment was highest, was suggested as a post-war work in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stanford Merthyr Road
The deviation on the Cessnock-Maitland road at Heddon Greta was reported on by the Shire Engineer (Mr. Grattan) at Kearsley Council meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tolls Likely on New Bridge
SYDNEY Friday—According information- received by [?] NRMA, the Government inc[?] to impose tolls on the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kearsley Council Discusses New Road to Stockrington Colliery
A deputation to Kearsley Shire Council on Tuesday night, from Stockrington No. 1 and 2 collieries, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rover Motors Ltd. Get Licence From Dungog Council Haggling Ends
At the meeting of Dungog Municipal Council on Monday night, there wore present Ald. J. W. Scott (Mayor), Ald. L. Grierson, A. S…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peat’s Ferry Bridge Toll
SYDNEY Sat.— The Minister for Transport (Mr. O’Sullivan) announced that a toll of 6d a vehicle will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burma Road Town Recaptured
CHUNGKING Nov. 3.— Recapture of the Burma Road town of Lungling, is claimed by the Chinese Central News Agency…
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