Railway Strike in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, Friday (AAP. Reuter).—New Zealand moves into Christmas with the greatest feelings of uncertainty in its…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1950
1,382 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 69 of 70
Railway Workers Get Increase
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Pay increases to about 300,000 drivers, Bremen and shunter guards, are included in a three-years’…
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Because motor vehicles with a greater width than was the case a few years ’ago have come into common use, the Transport…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. — Police are trying to establish the identity of a middle-aged man who was run down and killed by a…
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Thirty-four persons were killed and 64 Injured when an express train struck a large bus at a railway crossing near Podivin,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Company Lifts Sales Ban (A.a.p.) Detroit
General Motors announced that it would lift the ban it had earlier placed on sales of its 1951 model cars and offer them for sale…
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The NRMA forecasts that thou. Bands of motorists will be sleep ing in their cars or on the roadside in the next ,next week…
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Road accidents caused a number of deaths in New South Wales over the holiday week-end. Robert Jerkins, 7, of…
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The annual Christmas Tree was held in the Bishop’s Bridge Hall. The Christmas tree was secured and erected by Mr. [?]…
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As thousands of motorists today commenced their trek homewards from holiday resorts, police urgently renewed the call made…
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A lorry driver miraculously escaped injury when the lorry he was driving crashed through the bridge at Bowman’s Creek, 12…
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Aubrey James Wallace, 21, of Narromine was killed when he fell from a car near Narromine. Alfred John Bichall, 62, of…
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Five people were Injured when the car they were travelling in left the road at the Putty turnoff, 60 miles from Singleton, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Road Deaths In United States (Australian Associated Press) New York
The National Safety Council, which had forecast 440 deaths in road accidents in the United States between Friday and…
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The secretary of Paterson Show (Mr. R. A. Ebbeck) has received notification from the district superintendent of railways at Newcastle that approval has been granted for the running of a special train from Newcastle on Saturday,…
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A lorry driver miraculously escaped injury when the lorry he was driving crashed through the bridge at Bowman's Creek, 12 miles from…
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The American National Safety Council, which had forecast 440 deaths in road accidents in the United States between Friday and…
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Mr. J. J. Dulhunty, "The Rivers", Cassilis, writes:—"It is the custom of Muswellbrook residents to accept, as an everyday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sire Council Recedes £4,353 Grant to Repair Flood Damaged Roads It Was Announced To-day That the Upper Hunter Shire Council Would Receive a Grant of £4,353
This money has been made available to make repairs to roads damaged by flood rains experienced during the year. Representations to the Minister for Works and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Modernisation In Spain (From a Reuter Correspondent) MADRID
Efforts are being made to reduce the railway bottleneck on a section of the Madrid-Cordoba line, wh[?] would become of…
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