Road Traffic To Jerry’s Plains Cut Off
Heavy rains have cut off road traffic to Jerry’s Plains, 25 miles west of Singleton. The main bridge across, the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Motor-cycle Club News
Bad weather marred last Sunday's run to Kahibah, but it did not prevent Ron Bristow and Jim Hanbury from competing on the Waterfall's…
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SINGAPORE: The lorry turned, suddenly revealing a great field of dazzling white. Despite the tropics, I thought of snow—and then realised I was looking at the 7000 white crosses of Kanburi Military Cemetery…
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Port Stephens Shire Council will approach the Premier with a request that the railway be extended to Raymond Terrace from…
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SYDNEY, wed. —The Railway Department hopes to regain passengers lost to the airways by running air-conditioned daylight luxury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warkworth Bridge to be Replaced in a Few Weeks Progress Associations Combine to Urge Main Roads Board to Hurry
A combined meeting of the Jerry's Plains, Warkworth and Maison Dieu Progress Associations was informed yesterday that the new bridge to be constructed at Warkworth and which will replace…
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Water had now covered most Louth Park and Dagworth and the Louth Park road was nine to 10 feet under water in places this…
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The Minister for -Transport (Mr. O’Sullivan) will not, recommend that a railway line be built between Cessnock and Cockle Creek…
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At the September meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Council, the Engineer (Mr. A. L. Cook) reported for August: Works Progress:…
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IN a combined statement issued this week by the President of the Shires Association (Cr. J. M. Caldwell) and the President of the Local Government Association (Aid. R. T. C. Storey) announced that the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day’s Leader : More Money For Roads Singleton Show Entries
SINGLETON, Thursday.—Entries for the 1949 singleton show, to be held on October 6, 7 and 8, closed yesterday. The secretary (Mr. N…
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The matter of the extension of the railway to the Raymond Terrace Area was Drought up by Cr. Morgan at the September meeting of che Shire Council:…
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Mr. Kenneth Heath, 67, of Broadmeadow-rd., Broadmeadow, died yesterday in a train while travelling , from Newcastle to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Knowledge of Road Helped A Defendant
Local know: edge of the road layout out New England Highway, in the [?] of Rutherford, proved a held to-day to Martin Theodore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Staff Wins "Battle" with Army £5327 Grant for Military Damage to Roads?
For over three years Kearsley Shire Council staff has been conducting extensive research and carrying on a "battle" with the Department of the Army for a grant towards the cost of damage caused by military vehicles to roads in the shire during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Man Fined £50. Illegally Used Motor Cycle; Drove Under Influence
At the Muswellbrook Police Court on Wednesday, John Gordon Wheeler (20), was charged with having on 7th September last illegally used a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Duplication of Northern Railway Line
The laying of rails for duplicating the Northern line from Branxton to Muswellbrook, will probably begin this week…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Sat. — in reply to a request by the Department of Local Government for a further programme of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Presidential Minute Submitted at Shire Meeting Urges Money to Be Spent on Roads Soon
In his Minute presented at last Tuesday's monthly meeting of the Wallarobba Shire, the President (Cr. J. B. Carlton) said he was becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir Stafford Cripps Optimistic on Dollar Position On Road To Solution Of Difficulties
NEW YORK, Sept, 17 (A. A. P.) — Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, left La Guardia airport for London yesterday “full of optimism” and “quite sure” that this week’s tripartite talks by Britain, Canada…
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