New Bridge At Karuah
STROUD Sat.—The Department of Main Roads has advised Stroud Shire Council that it was only prepared to provide a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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Money For Road Repairs
SINGLETON. Saturday.—Patrick Plains Shire, Council decided at the monthly meeting yesterday to lodge an application…
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SVDNEY, Saturday—A stolen Royal Navy ambulance crashed into a parked car to Coogee to-day after being chased by police for many miles. A Royal Navy petty officer suffered a broken back. With him was a 16-year-old girl. Shortly before midnight the…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Vesper Monk, of Alice-street, Auburn 21, was killed, and four other people were injured last night,…
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SYDNEY, Sat;—The secretary of the Sydney Tramway Employees’ Union, Mr. J. Brock, criticised the State Government…
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STROUD, Monday — Stroud Shire Council adopted the recommendation of the engineer that the tender of W. T. Avery…
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STROUD, Monday — The Gloucester Chamber of Commerce advised Stroud Shire Council that a move m the…
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Maxwell Whybin, 20, farmer of Morpeth-road. East Maitland, fevered a tendon in his left instep In a fall from a motor…
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Smashing into a 7cwt. bale of woolpacks, an engine and 16 goods waggons were derailed near Bathurst, disorganising all western rail traffic for 14 hours…
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On Thursday afternoon, May 23, members of the Country Women’s Association, will conduct the third of their series of…
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The following communication has been forwarded to Mr. J. M. Baddeley by the District Secretary of the Primary Producers' Union (Mr. George Searl):-…
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Last week-end was a tragic one for Merriwa, Denman and Quirindi families. Two young men died from injuries received in a motor accident near Muswellbrook on Friday night, and a child died in Scone Hospital as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 31st. MAY, 1946. Sheep Killed by Motor Lorry. Claim in Small Debts Court. Verdict for Plaintiff
In the Small Debts Court on Thursday last, the Australian Chilling and Freezing Co. Ltd. claimed £15 damages and…
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Facts, not fiction! Have just been informed that at 1 a.m. during a derailment pies and tea were served, and Ganger Joe Best refused a second…
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Three persons—two men and a child—are dead and at least seven others were injured as the result of the worst series of road accidents in the Upper Hunter over a long period of years. The accidents, all of which happened in different parts of the district, took place…
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SINGAPORE, May. 21.—First of a big series of war trials connected with the building of the notorious Siam-Burma railway opened in Singapore yesterday. Japanese Major Totaro Mizutani, commander of the camps…
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Building of another bridge across the harbour within the next ten years, to relieve the traffic problem in the city, was advocated by Aid…
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Both legs of a woman passenger were severed when she fell under the wheels of an electric train at Waitara railway station last night…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A tramcar burst into flames after, a fuse had blown out at Randwick this morning…
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Peshawar-Bombay express was held up for several hours while compartments filled with frightened passengers were combed for cobras…
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