Taxi Ride for Train Fare
Railway passengers travelling between Morpeth and East Maitland early this afternoon had a more comfortable trip them usual…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Britain’s Motor Exports
LONDON, August 18.—Britain exported 60,000 cars and 24,000 commercial vehicles in the first half of this year, averaging more…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Of outstanding interest to motorists is the impending visit to Australia of Mr. Arthur Dunscombe Allen,…
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PLANS are being prepared by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales, in commonwealth with similar councils…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader Road Safety Further Cut in Basic Rations Planned in Britain All Imports From U.S. Except Food May Be Stopped
LONDON, August 19.—The emergency Cabinet meeting on Sunday was called to plan new austerity measures, including a cut basic rations, says the political correspondent of the ”Daily Express.”…
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CESSNOCK, Wed.—Early next [?] Heddon Groth overhead bridge on the Cessnock Maitland road will be damoitabed and a…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — The cost of reconstructing the road to the Wattagan Forest from Cessnock is estimated at £18,564 by the…
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Owing to the bad condition of the girders headstock and piles. Doheny’s Bridge at Morpeth could not be strengthened [?]…
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A 24-year-old railway car cleaner had a remarkable escape from' death at Rookwood early this morning, when a goods…
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The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, announced that the story of the great part played by the New South Wales Government…
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The joint Coal Board advised that as the East Maitland-Maibring road was a proclaimed road, it was unable to assist…
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LONDON, August 21 Britain, with the approval of the United States, halted temporarily at midnight its present arrangements for the free converting of pounds into dollars. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, in making…
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SYDNEY, Thursday — Since it grounded on the coral reef in Jomard Strait, 100 miles south-each of Samaral (Papua)…
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Wallarobba Shire Council has received word from the Minister for Local Government, per Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, M.L.A., that a further grant…
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The cost of reconstructing the road to the Wattagan Forest from Cessnock is estimated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Roads and Press Reports. (To The Editor.)
Sir.—Permit me space in your columns to voice a protest at the meagreness of the reports published in "The Chronicle" anent the meetings…
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Stay on the wrong side, sister, is the way Hollywood sings the old ditty to-day, but it is giving the gals advice they no longer need. A short cut to…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A youth was fatally injured by a tram near the intersection of Anzac Parade and Avoca Street,…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—Police, so far, have not identified a man who was killed when he fell under a train at Clyde Station early…
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NEWCASTLE, Sat. — Three people were injured when a car ran off the road at Hexham last night. They are Leslie Dowse,…
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