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Illawarra · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1943

123 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 5 of 7

Road Grant Allocation Protest Received From Scarborough-wombarra Progress Assoclation

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 4

At their meeting on Tuesday night, Bulli Shire Council received a progress form Scarborough-Wombarra Progress Association concern the allocation…

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Motor Notes Spare Parts Manufacture

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 6

The N.R.M.A. declares that, in the interests of manpower saving, it would be more economical for the Government to permit the manufacture of…

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Road Work

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 11 August 1943 · page 4

There was the usual budget of reports, etc., regarding various road and other works at the last meeting of the Jamberoo Council…

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Death on Train Spinal Cord Severed

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 3

The remarkable case of a man who lived for three weeks with a fractured spinal cord and vertebrae was revealed when the victim died on the…

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Tongarra Mine Road

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 4

Mr. Heppel, of the Tongarra Minewaited on the Council regarding repairs to the road leading to the mine. He pointed out that no coal had been…

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Dapto News Motor Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 5

Mr. R. G. King, of Osborne-street, Dapto,with his wife and baby son, had a very unpleasant experience last Friday morning, when the car they were…

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Trespass on Railway Several Fines

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 September 1943 · page 4

At the Wollongong Police Court on Monday, before Mr, Pickup- S.M., several men were fined for trespassing on railway property…

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Man's Body On Railway Line

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 8 September 1943 · page 3

The body of a man was found on the railway line near the Oak Flats Station on Saturday night, and it is thought he was run down by a train…

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Killed on Railway Line Near Oak Flats

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 September 1943 · page 1

On Saturday night about 10.22 p.m. Edward Joseph Miles, the driver of a motor train proceeding from Kiama to Wollongong, noticed an object on…

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Woonona Railway Station Post War Suggestion

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 September 1943 · page 4

The need for improvements to Woonona Railway Station as a post-war reconstruction, measure was stressed at the meeting of the…

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Woman's Death On Railway Line Inquest Finding

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1943 · page 3

A verdict of Accidental Death was recorded at the Inquest held at the Kiama Court House on Thursday last by the District Coroner (Mr. A. C…

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Country Motorists' Priority

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 September 1943 · page 2

Evidence is piling up at the N.R.M.A. office that quite a percentage of men on the land, have been wrongly classified in regard to. their motoring. Many…

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VACANCIES For Railway Apprentices

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 September 1943 · page 4
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

Our advertising columns announce that the Department of Railways has vacancies for trades apprentices in the metropolis and a number, of country…

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The Railway Comes

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1943 · page 5

The first. railway line in New South Wales was built to Parramatta, 26th September, 1855. The following year it was extended from Parramatta…

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Motor Taxation

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 29 September 1943 · page 3

An N.R.M.A. deputation to the N.S.W. Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) urging t further reduction in the State motor vehicle…

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RAILWAYMEN Improved Conditions

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 29 September 1943 · page 4

As reported elsewhere in this issue Mr. H. T. Fowles M.L.A. told the meeting held to re-form the Kiama branch of the A.L.P. on Friday night…

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Railway Promotions and Transfers

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 1 October 1943 · page 3

Included in the latest promotions and transfers of Thirroul Loco railway staff are the following:—…

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PRIORITIES Of Country Motorists

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1943 · page 5

Evidence is piling up at N.R.M.A. office that quite a percentage of men on the land have been wrongly classified in regard to their motoring…

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Social Evening Railway Ambulance Corps

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 October 1943 · page 3

The annual social in connection with the South Coast section of the Ambulance Corps, at which presentation of certificates are made, was held last…

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