Holiday Road Traffic
The N.R.M.A. reports that it found road traffic over the Eight hour week-end to be very light for a holiday period. The number of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Notes and Comment Road Hogs
Discussing road manners with a small party of motorists this week the writer was somewhat startled to hear the opinion of…
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Danger of continuing to drive a motor vehicle while physically fatigued or drowsy is stressed by the N.R.M.A. and R.A.C.A. More…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Sat. — Mr. Frederick Charles Scarsbrook, 61, a retired miner, died in a motor truck after he had assisted to load cattle…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Sat.—Muswellbrook branch of the Australian Federation Union of Locomotive Enginemen, combined with, the…
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NEWS comes from England of a new type of freight aircraft now being built which well revolutionise the…
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LONDON, October 13.—Reuter’s Madrid correspondent says that the train which can ran into a crowd leaving a football match…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday. — A returned soldier from World War I. was bound over in the sum of £2, to be of good behaviour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General News Motor-cycle Accident at Ravensworth
Mr. Allen Williamson (22), of Angus Avenue, Kandos, yesterday struck a horse on the New England Highway whilst riding a motor-cycle…
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SINGLETON, Tues. —The president (Cr. A. C. Marshall) and councillors Hobden and Clydesdale, of Patrick Plains Shire Council, met…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Railwaymen at Port Waratah have threatened to bold up coal trains at Port Waratah from October…
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The District Coroner, Mr. W O. Pickering, returned a verdict of accidental death when he held an inquest at…
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The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, announced to-day the publication of a 48-page booklet illustrating and describing interesting…
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SINGLETON, Tuesday.—Alan Williamson, 22, of 23 Angus Avenue, Kandos, was admitted to the Dangar Cottage Hospital by…
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Taking for his subject, “Some Notes on the Railway History of N.S.W.,” Mr. C. S. Singleton was the guest [?] at the meeting of…
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PARIS, Oct. 15.— Although French motorists are officially without petrol because of the Government’s rationing…
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The Karuah Progress Association asked the Port Stephens Shire Council at its last monthly meeting that priority be given the road through the village…
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Although tenders had twice been called for renewal of the bridge at Moran’s farm, none had been received, the shire…
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The health inspector (Mr. T. C. Atkinson) reported to Lower Hunter Shire Council yesterday that, as instructed, he had…
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Arthur Leopold Newton, of Lindsay-street. East Maitland, employed as an engineer by the Hunter District Water Board, was killed yesterday…
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