Bridge Is Death Trap
Stanhope and Lamb’s Creek Parents and Citizens’ Association [?] Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day that Gullfoyle’s…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,254 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 63
Ignored Warning; Killed By Train
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Ignoring a warning, a man who attempted to walk across a railway line at Warwick Farm station last…
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Work was progressing on the construction of the Rosebrook Maitland road whils a builder had been employed for a week on…
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A glaring instance of the disregard the Railway Department has on occasions for the comfort for the travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Councillors Just As Worried About Roads As the Users Labour Position Has Reached Serious Proportions Suggestion of Contract Work to Ease Position
Councillors of Patrick Plains Shire Council are just as concerned over the road position as are the users of the roads, who, from day to day and month to month send in complaints to those who control the destinies of the shire area…
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SINGLETON, Wednesday. — The Chamber of Commerce decided last night to write to the Railway Department asking It it…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—A tram was wrecked in a collision with a fully-loaded garbage track at Waverley this morning, but the…
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MOSCOW (Associated Press).—Seventy thousand workers are now building the USSR’s newest railway—2325 mile line connecting the Transcaspian railway with the Aral Sea…
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JERUSALEM, April 1.—It is officially announced that 40 persons were killed and 60 injured when an electrically detonated land wine yesterday blew up the Cairo-Haita express as it was running through an orange-growing belt near…
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St. John's Church of England, Cessnock was the scene of the weeding of Adele Farrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Hollingshed, of Cessnock, and…
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WELLINGTON (NZ), April 2. —Giving evidence at the Se[?] train [?] inquiry, Herbert Leonard Cummings, a passenger…
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Sir,—Cr. W. Dalton is to be commended for his letter in your issue of March 19. There are many thousands of good gravel…
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British and Soviet authorities are maintaining a firm stand on the dispute over the passage of trains between Berlin and the British zone and no results came from long talks between the British Chief of Staff, Major-General Brownjohn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s Leader: The Menace of Bureaucracy British Refuse Russians Right of Search Road Block Border of Berlin
BERLIN, April 2.—British arid Soviet authorities are maintaining a firm stand on the dispute over the passage of trains between Berlin and the British zone, and no Results came from long talks between the British chief of staff, Major-General…
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BRISBANE, Friday. — Railwaymen at Brisbane and Ipswich to-day decided to return-to work. The decision means virtual collapse of the Queensland strike, which commenced on February 2…
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BRISBANE, Saturday:—Although mass meetings of striking railway employees in Queensland yesterday decided to accept…
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Charles Matthews, 79 of Rockney street Thornton, was admitted to hospital with a fractured thigh resuiting from a fal, while alightning…
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LONDON April 6. — Reuter’s Herton Correspondent says that General Robertson’s special train arrived at the Russian zonal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tension Temporaily Eased in Berlin Russia Prepared to Discuss Rail, Road Restrictions
Announcement in Berlin by Soviet authorities that they are willing to discuss their recently-imposed restrictons on road and rail traffic between Berlin and the Western Zones of Germany has temporarily, at least, eased tension, and it is…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— Sydney detectives to-day denied a report that they were convinced that Robert Sylvester Condron (46),…
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