Better Train Service Urged
CESSNOCK.—At a, meeting of Cessnock Municipal Council, Aid Jones said it was time the coalfield people were given a decent…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
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C.W.A. War Bridge Afternoon
On Wednesday afternoon next. May 30, members of the Country Women’s Association. Maitland branch, will conduct the fourth of…
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LITHGOW Thursday.—An air man was fatally injured when a lorry he was driving ran off the roadway at Rocky Waterhole,…
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Ald. Jones, at Tuesday nights meeting of Cessnock Council, said It was time, the coalfields people were given a decent railway service. He said he had…
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Last Tuesday night cessnock discussed the [?] of another good road from the coalfields to the lake districts. The proposal was that the…
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A runaway goods truck, loaded with railway sleepers, was derailed at Penrith and held up six trains. The truck followed the…
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Late arrival of the daily school train, which is 6.19 p.m. under a new time-table, is being looked into by authorities of the Railway…
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The following Railway teams have been selected to play at Bowman Park against St. Patrick's (Singleton) on Sunday next:—…
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SYDNEY Friday.—Many immediate advantages would result from an increase in the petrol rationing scale, said Mr. H. I…
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LONDON May 25.—Lord Nuffield’s decision to establish an Australian company for the manufacture of motor cars, was…
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LONDON, May 26.—The Ministry of Supply has announced that the tyre control restrictions will be relaxed with the restoration…
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LONDON' May 27.—By taking over two of the biggest shadow factored In Britain tile Rootes group plans to double production…
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BOUGAINVILLE.—The last of the obstacles on the Buin road, behind the Australian positions, fell when a Japanese suicide…
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KURRI Tuesday,—Mr, G. Dunlop, 66, of Avondale-road. Cooranbong was admitted to Kurri Kurri hospital last night with a…
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NEWCASTLE Wed. — On March 29 Darrell Small, of King-street, Newcastle, left a train at Thornton, and said he had travelled…
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An additional train will be run from Newcastle to Cessnock. starting on Saturday. Departing at 5.35 p.m., it will stop at…
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SYDNEY Wed.—Names of the soldier killed and two of these Injured when a stolen motor car crashed into marching men In a…
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ARISING out of last night’s meeting of the Municipal Council was a decision to approach the Railway Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: Our Railway Station Severe Blow To Japanese In Nanning Area (Australian Associated Press)
CHUNGKING, May 30.—Coincident with reports that the Chinese troops ore now battling along the entire length of the Japanese supply highway, between Nanning and the Indo-China frontier town of Dondang, the Chinese combat…
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When a motor truck driven by Mr. Robert Williams of Glen Aston, Narrabri, collided at night with a post on the side of the Gunnedah road,…
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