Motorist Failed to Stop
A motorist, who failed to stop after colliding with another car in front of the Lochinvar Hotel on Jun£ 2, was…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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Struck by Motorcycle
Struck by a motorcycle in High Street, Cessnock, on Sunday, Lynette Bailey, 18, of Aberdare Road, Cessnock, suffered…
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The Patrick Plains Shire Council has been granted approval to borrow £18,000 for the bituminous sealing of…
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Mr Berry verbally informed the Secretary that after October 21st; 1951. Messrs. Bery and Sons would not pay Railway Freights for Goods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Hurt When Car Hits Bridge
A woman was injured when the car in which she was a passenger struck a bridge on the New England Highway,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Old Dog On A Hard Road
MR. CHURCHILL, as British Prime Minister will set out on a harder road than that followed by Mr. Attlee. Both know that a major fuel crisis will came during the winter months lust starting; they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Gets £385
A motor cyclist was awarded £855/6/6 damages by Judge Brennan in the District Court at East Maitland this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Crashes Came Quickly
BERLIN: Three persons were Wiled and 20 Injured yesterday, when a passenger train Into a goods train in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train S[?]ats Quota Increase Refused Inquiries Futile
A railway official said yesterday that he was unable to tell passengers if they could get seats on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway And The Bushfire Menace
A Feature of the work of the Bush Fire Committee this year has been a survey of the clanger of fire arising from railway lands or railway operations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jones, O'Brien Down Railway Bats
Albion "A" reserve cricket team defeated Railway Construction team by an innings and 98 runs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Statistics
An increase in passenger traffic from Singleton Station during October raised the fares intake to £3,863/16/,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Tragedy of the Roads"
People will scon wonder, not which war a person was maimed [?], but which car said Mr. Doo[?]an, S.M., in the Newtown Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prohibitive Railway Freights Effect on Council's Road Work. £1690 Order Cancelled
Mr. G. Bailey (Shire Engineer) reported to yesterday's meeting of the Shire Council that it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Knocked Down by Motor Cycle
A small boy named Irwin, o[?] Brook Street, was knocked down by a motor cyclist when crossing Bridge Street with his mother…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rum-laden Semi-trailer Crashes Into Railway Gates. Attendant's Narrow Escape
A semi-trailer, carrying 25 thirty-six gallon kegs of Queensland rum, crashed into the railway gates on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Cup to Topweight, Delta Sydney Mare Won Railway Highweight
MELBOURNE: Sydney mare, Stelvio, wore down Carnage over the last bit to take the Railway Highweight of Flemington this afternoon with Gay Archer a close third…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conference on Site for Aerodrome
MUSWELLBROOK : A conference will be held in Newcastle on November 18 to discus[?] proposals for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air - Conditioned Train Will Pick-up at Dungog
On the 10th October, 1951, the Hon. Members for Gloucester and Oxley asked questions without notice regarding the operation of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Main Points From King's Speech Supreme Effort To Gap Bridge Between Two Worlds
LONDON:" Never must we admit that a third world war is inevitable," Winston Churchill said yesterday . Making his first speech as Prime Minister to the new House of Commons, the Veteran British statesman, told a packed session that he proposed to hold a…
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