Railway Bridge to Be Reported on
Cr. A. E. Hardy, at yesterday's meeting of the Upper Hunter Shire Council, drew attention to the bad state of the railway bridge…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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Road Tax
A convention of country manufactures has decided to recommend that the tax on goods carried by road from country factories should be lifted…
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On the grounds that booking of seats on trains has outlived its usefulness, Cessnock Council on…
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Repatriation authorities have proposed to the Miners' Federation a scheme for training ex-servicemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stroud Road School Concert
The annual concert and prize-giving was held in the Mission Hall at Stroud Road on Friday night, 22 September. The hall was packed to capacity and…
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Information to the effect that the B.H.P. cannot supply any bitumen to Cessnock Council for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Possibility Of Commercial Aerodrome To Belnvestigated Move From Municipal Council Shire Council Toll Asked to Co-operate
During disussion of estimates for 1947 at the special meeting of the Municipal Council last night. Aid. C. H. Dunlop stressed the importance of making a definite move to have a commercial aerodrome established here, so that Singleton could be put…
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When driving a truck at Tarro yesterday afternoon, Robert A. Reynolds of Victoria street, Burwood, stated that the truck…
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SINGLETON: “It we go ahead with this plan as outlined by Ald. Dunlop,” said ALd. McGrogan at the special meeting of the…
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PEORIA, Illinois—(Associated Press)—Production of synthetic liquid motor fuels from corncobs and other farm wastes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day’s Leader: Maitland Library. Persian Troops Capture Vital Railway Station Strategic Point Falls After a Day’s Fighting
TEHERAN, December 9.—Persian troops, after one day’s fighting against the Azerbaijan democrat forces, occupied Rakin, an important railway station, which is a strategic point on the frontier outside Azerbaijan province…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—When a motor-cycle skidded off the main, road at Erina. near Gosford, night, it crashed through a [?]…
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A motor cyclist was injured when his machine left the road near Gresford, plunged over a six-foot embankment, and…
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When Boston Hogan, of Muswellbrook, was turning his lorry from Low. er Brook street into Bridge street at 8 p.m. on Saturday he heard the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Demand For Railway Quiz Book
NEWCASTLE, , Tuesday. — There has been such a demand for the “Railway Quiz" book .that stocks have been exhausted…
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The whole structure of Mindaribba Bridge had been renewed, with the exception of the girders, which had been replaced…
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Lochinvar branch of the N.S.W. Agricultural Bureau complained to Lower Hunter Shire Council that attention had not been given to…
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PHILADELPHIA (Asocial. Press)— The Pennsylvania Ballroad has perfected a “carrybone,” a portabic two-way radio device for its…
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CESSNOCK, Wednesday. — The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Cahill) informed Kearsley Shire Council that a grant of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rabbits on Railway Land
SINGLETON, Wednesday.— The Railway Commissioner is to be again approached regarding the destruction of rabbits on railway…
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