Trouble From Railway Property and Military Area
Owners of Baroona, Whittingham, Edward Ernest Christie and his son, Neville Edward M. Christie, were prosecuted in respect of a large area…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
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Woman Fined for Motor Offences Magistrate's Serious View of One Charge
Ellen Louisa Prior was fined a total of £12 yesterday when she appeared before Police Magisstrate A. E. Hodgson on two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bicycle Collided With Tram
NEWCASTLE Sat.—Robert Irwin of 261 Beaumountstreet Hamilton suffered a probably fracture of the skull abrasions…
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SINGLETON. — A deputation comprising Messrs. S. H. Nichols, A. E. Vickers, W. H. Vickers. A.M. Meissner S. Burns…
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SYDNEY Monday.—The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) stated that motor registrations in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1000 Miles Road Racers at Singleton Headwind and Late Start Caused Delay
Competitors in the 1000 miles victory road race arrived in Singleton yesterday morning more than an hour later than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Electrification of Railway
The Maitland Labour Council has taken up with the Minister for Transport (Mr. O’Sullivan) the question of the electrification…
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Mary Daley, of Miller’s Forest, did not appear at West Maitland court to-day to answer a charge of having travelled in a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rode Motor Cycle Causing Undue Noise
A fine of £1/4/6, with 5/6 costs, was imposed on Alan Saari for having ridden a motor cycle causing undue noise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway News. (By "Headlight")
Loco men were present in force at the R.C. ball. Cliff Wild partnered daughter Joan, who was one of the debutantes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allied War Prisoners Died in Thousands Railway Built at Cost of Human Lives. (A.a.p. Messages). SINGAPORE
Sixteen thousand Allied war prisoners and at least 20,000 Asiatic slaves died while building the Burma-Siam Railway, says a Bangkok message. Thirty thousand more slaves are missing without an explanation from the Japanese, except "They must have run away."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burma-Siam Railway Death-Roll 36,000 Lives Forfeited Super-Atomic Bomb Being Developed
SIXTEEN THOUSAND ALLIED WAR PRISONERS AND AT LEAST 20,000 ASIATIC SLAVES DIED IN BUILDING THE BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY, SAYS A BANGKOK MESSAGE, AND 30,000 MORE SLAVES ARE MISSING WITHOUT EXPLANATION FROM THE…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Hexham Bridge
SYDNEY Wed.—No tender has been accepted for the proposed traffic bridge over the Hunter River at Hexham. The Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harbour Bridge Deficit
SYDNEY Wednesday.— The accumulated deficiency on the operations of the Sydney Harbour Bridge amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Service To Coalfields
CESSNOCK Wed. — Kearsley Shire Council wrote to, Cessnock Council asking for co-operation in seeking an improved train…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Auditor-General Criticises Railway Reserves Newcastle Transport Services Profitable
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Building up of reserves by the Railway Department during the war was criticised by the Auditor-General (Mr. E. H. Swift) in his report for the year ended June 30 last, which was tabled in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coolies on Thailandburma Railway 150,000 Worked to Death by Japs
Allied headquarters have released a report from an Indian army observer, who was a prisoned in Malaya, stating the Japanese worked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rural Roads
Mr W. L. Lindsay, in his report to the L. H. Shire Council at last meeting said. "I notices a press report recently where…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One Bridge Cost 1000 Lives
SYDNEY Thursday—The build[?] of one bridge 200ft long on the Burma-Slam railway cost nearly 1000 lives of prisoners of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alp Discusses New Site for Belmore Bridge
West Maitland branch of the ALP, at Its monthly meeting, discussed the proposed site, near the courthouse for the new…
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