Heavy Snow Blocks Roads in England
LONDON, March 4.—Bitterly cold conditions throughout the week-end brought heavy falls of snow In south-eastern England…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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Prisoners’ Sensational Bid For Freedom Sawed Through Top of Prison Tram
SYDNEY, Monday.—In a sensational bid for 'freedom, men, who were remanded on serious charges. sawed way through the coachwork top of a prison tram on its from Long Bay gaol to Darlinghurst police station…
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Struck by a motor in Abbott st West Maitland last night, two ladles received injuries neceasliting their removal to Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Men Saw Way Through Prison Tram Sensational Bid for Freedom
In a sensational bid for freedom two men, who were on remand on serious charges, sawed their way through the…
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Expenditure of £3500. on the reconstruction of Hillsborough bridge, destroyed by floods on January [?] 1941 was not…
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Stating that the bridge on the Black Hill road, between Mr. T. Leneghan’s and Black H[?] school was in a dangerous…
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Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day adopted the engineer’s Main Roads programme for 1946. providing for works estimated…
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The construction of a steel and concrete bridge at Bandon Grove has commenced and operations are in full swing. The work is being carried out…
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The 3.55 p.m. Sunday, train will resume running on Sunday next. A workman's train will leave Sandy Hollow for Muswellbroolc at 8 p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fate of the Old Hawkesbury Bridge. Country Towns May Benefit
"Everyone in interested in the fate of the old Hawkesbury bridge," said, a railway official, discussing the impending removal of the structure…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Open Cut Road Controversy Move to Declare Traffic Extraordinary Defeated. Council Receives £1600 in Rates from "Open Cut" Mining
Following the reading of legal opinion contained in a letter from the Local Government Association's solicitor, a motion was moved that the council declare the traffic on the "open cut" road to be extraordinary. The resolution was defeated…
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The Hon. E. J. Ward, Minister for Transport and External Territories, writes as follows to Mr. T. Williams, M.P. (Robertson):—"I desire to…
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The public will be pleased to learn that the Railway Department is at last taking notice of the widespread outcry against the conditions that are…
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BRISBANE Friday—Returned P.O.W. Keith Ross Craig and his wife, Gwendoline Winifred Craig, who disappeared from their Holland…
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NEWCASTLE: The mutilated body of Kyran Patrick Carey, 43, of Harrow-street, Stanmore, was found on the up line at…
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Keith William Holt, who appeared in uniform in the local police court yesterday was charged with riding a motor cycle…
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MUSWELLBROOK.—The 3.55 p.m. Sunday train was resumed yesterday; A workman's train "will leave Sandy Hollow for…
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SYDNEY, Monday—The NRMA and BACA warn motorists, that they are travelling too fast on the main suburban routes, and…
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MUSWELLBROOK: Following the reading of legal opinion contained in a letter from the Local Government Association's solicitor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peeps Into the Past Singleton 25 Years Ago (From Issues of "Argrus" Week Ended 19th March, 1921) Aeroplane Flights
Captain E W Percival, in a three seater Avro aeroplane, took up a number of townspeople for flights over Singleton, some of the…
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