Truck Drivers Jib At battered Roads
Transport drivers are refusing to haul livestock. Wheat and cement because some N.S.W. roads are dangerously out of repair. Road Transport Workers'…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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Four Killed in Crash From Bridge
LAUNCESTON, Monday—Two men and their sons were killed last night when their car skidded on St. Paul's River bridge,…
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The Department of Main Roads has bungled again. In a bid to appease the justifiably angry stockmen of the Singleton district, and so prevent a deputation to the Minister for Transport, they have…
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Four men were hurt when a jeep overturned at Neath at the intersection of Kearsley and Maitland Roads on Saturday…
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TRIESTE: A 20-years-old Pole had himself welded into a double roof above a lavatory in the Danzig-Trieste train for a three-days’…
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NEWCASTLE—A railway employee found the body of Albert Percival Pritchard, 62, of Glebe Road, Merewhether, between…
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The Department of Main Roads has called tenders for a new road bridge over the Hunter River at Denman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leg Amputated Under Train
While 600 holiday makers watched, a doctor amputated the right leg of a man who had fallen under a train at…
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Mr. G. S. Bailey (consulting engineer) submitted to the Municipal Council on Wednesday last the following report, setting out…
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Mr. Roger Nott, M.L.A., has been advisel by the Minister for Transport, the Hon. W. F. Shehan, that special concessions for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Object To Haulage Road
CESSNOCK All mines on the South Maitland field are at work to-day, with the exception of Abermain No. 2, where the men…
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NRMA action has resulted in the ending, of an anomaly in the prosecution of motorists for traffic breaches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Hits Semi-trailer
The driver of a semi-trailer escaped injury when a train struck the vehicle at a Morpeth crossing on Saturday. The driver, Neville Kiem, of…
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Carrying operations by the Department of Ballways have undermined Vogale's Bond in [?] Shire [?] [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Men Escape Unhurt After Train Wrecks Car
Two men crawled unhurt from a wrecked car which had been pushed for 100 feet by a train along the [?] coal…
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At the July meeting of the Port Step[?]ens Shire Council, held on Tuesday last, Mr. Cook, (Shire Engineer) reported:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Sick to Death" of Ferries and Hexham Bridge
Hexham bridge was described at the Shire meeting on Monday as "a toy anud a plaything." Cr. W. Scott said everyone was "sick to…
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MUSWELLLBROOK—The Department of Main Roads has called tenders for a new road bridge over the Hunter River…
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Social considerations Involving improved amenities in the country, with better educational, and cultural facilities and…
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A lonry driver and the rider of a motor cycle were fined in Mitland Court this morning for having crossed over the…
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