Ten Motor Vehicles In Collision
NEW YORK, Oct. 22:—Twelve persons were injured in a freak collision of 10 motor vehicles at Kearny, New Jersey, yesterday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1950
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C.w.a. Bridge Afternoon
Members of the Maitland branch of the Country Women’s Association will conduct the third of their series of flag bridge…
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An 18-year-old youth was fined £5 in default ten days' imprisonment at Cessnock Court this morning when he pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Ambulance Corps. Awards Presented to Muswellbrook Branch. Annual "Smoko."
The Muswellbrook branch of the N.S.W. Railways' Ambulance Crops, held its second annual smoko" at the Railway Institute on Sunday night…
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Maitland railway station, which was silent yesterday during the 24-hour traffic hold-up caused by a State-wide strike of some railway employees, was a hive of activity from an early hour this morning…
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The Maitland District Motor Cycle Club conducted a social run on Sunday to the head of the Allyn River, where members…
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Representative of Kearsley and Lower Hunter Shire Councils conferred on Hillsborough bridge and decided that Kearsley should…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Reports Make Engineer “Mad”
People writing to tell him that roads in the shire were dangerous made mm “feel mad,” Mr. W R. Lindsay, Lower Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Vessel for Migrants
LONDON, Oct 26—Australian Resident Minister. Mr. Eric Harrison, announced yesterday that the M.V. Georgic would salt from…
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Chief engineer of the N.R.M.A. Mr. C. Naphtali, advises motorists embarking on holiday motor cours to carry essential items in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Want Road Raised at Testers Request to Main Roads Bd
The East Greta Progress Association asked Kearsley Shire Council on Tuesday night to approach the Main Roads Board and ask it to raise the…
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A Bristol freighter aircraft has just dropped 40 tons of fertilisers over the heart of mountainous Wales. The…
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SINGLETON, Friday.— Complaints were made to the Patrick Plains Shire Council that log forries were causing severe…
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SINGLETON, Friday. — A notice of motion by Cr. A. C, Marshall at the meeting yesterday of the Patrick Plains Shire…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—At the meeting of the Patrick Plains Shire Council In Singleton yesterday a letter was received from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threatened Railway Strike
The conference of unions to be held to-day concerned in the rail dispute, will do little to avert the threatened 24-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Motors Record Profits
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—General Motors Corporation reports that it made more money in the first nine months of 1950 than for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cyclist’s Fatal Injuries
Leslie Doaks, 20, of Waratah street, Mayfield, was fatally injured and his pillion rider, Daniel James Wallace, of Waratah, was…
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SINGLETON, Sat.—The engineer (Mr. Mclntyre) presented to Patrick Plains Shire Council the propsed programme for…
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A call for reduced speed by trains at ail level crossings was made by the NRMA following the report of a level crossing [?]mach…
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