Motorists Miss Their Ration
The N.R.M.A. reports that hundreds of motorists missed collecting their petrol ration tickets for June, owing to ignorance of the closing date…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
106 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 4 of 6
Motorist Remanded
Arising out of an alleged collision between two motor cars in Flinders street Wollongong on Saturday evening, Leslie Edward James Rogers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Little Things Cause Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
"Oh, I'm too busy—I can't be bothered with little things like that." Like what? Little things which cause road accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Faulty Brakes and Lights (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Motor vehicles are getting older and the likelihood of replacement, except in special cases, is not to be expected until the war has ended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suburban Railway Fares
The failure on the part of the Railway Commissioners to introduce the suburban railway fares to this district was criticised at last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Skilled British Women Workers Build Railway Engines
In more and more of Britain's war industries women are replacing men. Women and girls are now helping to build railway engines, a highly skilled job which requires long training. Skilled women are tackling every kind of job that goes to making an engine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Remarkable Bridge
The Bailey bridge, named after Donald Coleman ,Bailey, of Britain's Ministry of Supply, who pioneered its design, is one of the engineering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Post-war Quiz For Motorists
Realisation that the end of hostilities in Europe is in sight compels attention to the post war period. What will it be like? is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Figtree Road Death Accidental
An Inquest touching the death of Alfred Robert Carmichael was held at the Wollongong Court House on Saturday, by the Deputy Coroner, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Collision with Railway Gates
Although he was a stranger to the district and did not know of tho existence of the railway pates at the Moss vale crossing on the Prince's Highway,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorists Fined
Charged on Monday at Wollongong Court with exceeding the 30 m.p.h. speed limit, Percival Stanley Gadd, of Curl Curl, was fined £7…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stole Fruit From Railway
Charged at the Wollongong Police Court on Monday with having stolen eighteen apples and twelve oranges valued at 8/4, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Fruit from Railway
Douglas George Newman (18) pleaded guilty at Wollongong Court on Monday to a charge of stealing 13 apples and 12 oranges valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eighteen Fined for Trespass on Railway
Eighteen persons were fined fl and 10/ costs, at the Wollongong Police Court, before Mr. E. Hodgson, S.M., on Monday, for trespassing on railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rumpus in Rail Motor
At the Wollongonp Police Court on Monday, before Mr. E. Hodgson, S.M., the Railway Department proceeded against Alfred Ernest Anderson…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reduced Railway Fares
Following the announcement made to the press by the Premier of N.S.W. that reduced fares would bo charged for short distance return tickets in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Train Cuts
Owing to the coal shortage, the numbers of passenger trains throughout the State will be reduced, commencing to-day (Saturday)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reduced Railway Fares
Following the announcement made to the press by the Premier of New South Wales that reduced fares would be charged for short distance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Omega Railway Platform
Mr. Jack G. Beale, M.L.A., State Member for South Coast, recently made representations to the Minister or Transport on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fatality Inquest Held
A finding of death by suicide was returned by the Bulli District Coroner (Mr. R.B. Dunlop) at an inquest at Bulli on Friday, into the death of Mrs…
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