18 Months' Gaol For Theft of 6 Dairy Motors
John Patrick Hoban (32), builder, of Baulkham Hills, was found guilty by the jury at Newcastle Sessions of six…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Theft of Beer From Railway
QUIRINDI, Monday.—At the Quirindi court, before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., Ivan Oswald Shelley was charged with stealing 12…
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Eric Pickstone, jeweller, of High-st., who was proceeding on on a bicycle to his work shortly after 8 a.m. to-day collided with…
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Two young men were injured when the motor cycle they were riding was involved in a collision with a car at the corner of Abbot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Men’s Protest on Holiday Order
Railway porters at Port Waratah decided, at a meeting at Tighe’s Hill, to resist the proposal by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Official Letters Flood Warnings and Votes For Roads
Mr, R. B. Nott, MLA for Liverpool Plains, forwards the following self-explanatory letters, under date 30/11/'49:-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety Council Aims to Reduce Number of Accidents
Interesting figures concerning road accidents were produced by Lieut-Colonel H. A. Youden, D.S.O., V.D., secretary of the Road Safety Council, at a meeting of the Maitland branch…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Aid Tests for Motors
Motorists without expert knowledge are advised by the NRMA not to tinker with a recalcitrant cut engine on the roadside after…
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Gouldsville Agricultural Bureau on Monday night decided to request Patrick Plains Shire Council to take some…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Employees of South Maitland Railways Pty. Ltd. have been awarded salary and wage Increases as a result…
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Mr. W. R Lin[?], Lower Flunder Shire Council engineer, told councillors yesterday that estimated expendid[?] for next year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arrest Follows Chase Of A Train
SYDNEY, Thursday.— After chasing a goods train 50 miles from Sydney, detectives to-day arrested a man at gunpoint when…
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KURRI, KURRI, Thursday. — For having exceeded the speed limit of 80 m.p.h. in Lang-st., Kurri, on December 5, three…
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A request by Aid. Armstrong to Newcastle City Council, that a grader or bulldozer be put over a road leading into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£9,854 Spent on Minor Road Maintenance
A total of £9,854 had been spout on the maintenance of minor roads in the shire from January to November this year, the Engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motorcyclist Injured in Collision
When a motor-cycle and lorry came into collision at Aberdare early yesterday morning, Edward Astill, the rider of the motor-cycle, received…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Motor Cyclist Warned. Rode Motor Cycles Without Consent of Owners
At the Police Court, on Wednesday, Donald Rawson Thorley, a young man, was fined £5 and 7/- costs on each of two charges of using motor…
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SINGLETON. Friday.—A motor cycle ridden by Mr. C. Littlejohn, of Gas-st., Singleton, was completely destroyed by fire near…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Special penalty rates for night shifts to about 12,000 railway locomotive employees in N.S.W., Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Underground Railway For Toronto (From Charles B. Lynch Reuter Correspondent)
TORONTO.—Toronto is building Canada’s first underground railway, and it is causing chaos in the nations most congested…
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