Tennis Wins for Railway and Masters
Railway team won the grand final of the A Grade Mixed in the Near South Coast Tennis Association competition; Masters…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
293 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 10 of 15
Motor Cyclist's Successful Claim
Arising from a motor accident in which a car and a motor cycle nm involved, the cyclist John Reginald Tevor, of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Price Reduction B.s.a. Motor Cycles
Keith Webb, 78 Keira Street, Wollongong. The South Coast Cycle and Motor Cycle Specialist, advises that 1949 Model B.S.A. motor…
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Two men and four women were admitted to the District Hospital last Saturday afternoon following a collision between two cars on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railwayman gave stolen toys to fellow-worker
A shunter stole a toy nursery table, two nursery stools and a doll's pram from a railway truck and then made a gift of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Broke window in railway carriage
A man was fined at Wollongong Court on Monday for breaking a window in a railway carriage and evading payment…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →State Govt. takes big share of royalty revenue on sand Despite Destruction of Roads by Sand Lorries
The Sate Government has demanded—and is getting—3d a ton royalty on all sand removed from Crown land at Pt. Kembla which is being used as filling by the A.I. & S. Ltd, in its project to reclaim…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Theft Brings Man Month Gaol Sentence Too Many Railway Thefts, Says S.M.
Pointing out that thefts in the Railways Dept. in this district were far too frequent, Mr. A. S. Tuncheon S.M., in Wollongong Court last Thursday sent a Port Kembla laborer to gaol for a month after his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →40 Fined for Road Offences
Forty motorists appeared before Mr. A. S. Tunchcon, S.M., at the Court on Monday on charges involving breaches of traffic regulations…
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A mysterious "other guy" is every driver's worst enemy. This belief was expressed yesterday by Mr. J. Jephcott, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Sand Royalty For Road Maintenance
Because it has reduced the sand royalty from 6d. to 3d. a yard, the Government, is not prepared to make provision for payment of an amount to the City council for road repairs and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Minister Says: No aid for P.K. roads
According to the Minister for Lands (Mr. W. F. Sheahan) the State Government will not render financial aid to the Greater Wollongong City Council to repair and maintain roads which are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.M. Discharges Motor Cyclist on Drinking Charge
After hearing evidence at Bulli Court on Friday in a case in which a man was charged with riding a motor cycle while…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Did Not Give Way to Police Car; Motorist Fined £3
A police car narrowly avoided colliding with another car which Failed to give way to it on the Prince's Highway, Russel Vale,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.k. Railway Workers' Bitter Experience of Nationalisation
"Thousands of adult railway workers in England Ret only £4/12/6 a week. They have been pressing for a rise for eighteen months and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Noisy Motor Cycles
Motor cyclists who had inefficient silencers on their machines were warned at Wollongong Court last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sunday Night Train Hour Earlier
Under the new railway time table to operate from the end of November; the 10.27 p.m. train from Sydney on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Port Kembla Roads. Coy. May Aid Council
Conferences between the City Council and the A.I. and S. Ltd., may result in further financial aid being given to the Council for the purpose of maintaining roads at Pt. Kembla, which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Conditions May Cause Bus Stoppage
A general stoppage of buses in the Greater City of Wollongong is threatened unless "something of a positive nature is done by the authorities to improve existing roads,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bad Roads may Cause big Bus Stoppage by week-end
A complete stoppage of all Greater Wollongong buses is threatened at the week-end, unless guarantee of some definite action are given at a conference to-day that roads along some of the district's bus routes are made trafficable…
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