Railways' Record Earnings
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 5
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. E. Winsor, has presented to the Acting Minister for Transport, the Hon. G. Weir, L.L.R., M.L.A., his report on the operations of the Department of Railways for the year ended 30th June, 1952…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 2
A motor cyclist, who was admitted to the Wollongong Hospital late Thursday night following an accident in Keira…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 4
Trailer caravans are more than merely "beds on wheels" to, many people. For some they are semi-permanent…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2
A British method of prestressing concrete is to be used in the U.S. for the first time in the…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 3
A motor cyclist had his licence suspended for six months in Wollongong Court yesterday for speeding at 56 miles an hour along Port Kembla Road,…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 7
The Northern Zone Committee decided to give attention to tarsurfacing, grading and…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 3
A man who was found dead, lying beside a damaged motor cycle, down an embankment near a bridge on the West Dapto Road, Wongawilli, on the morning…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 27
Members of the Towradgi Progress Association at the last meeting strongly criticised the Transport Authorities and the Greater Wollongong City Council for what was described as "the evasive tactics over the constructive of…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 15 January 1953 · page 20
An unlicensed motor cyclist, riding an unregistered machine, met a lonely death on West Dapto-Wongawilli…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 8
MADRID.—Madrid may re-lay its tramcar tracks and restore the told tramway system in the city…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 16
The Railways Department is to be asked to demolish brick walls on the sides of Coniston railway bridge and replace them with safety netting fences. This was decided by the…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 11
The all-round improvement in the general roadworthiness of modern care, particularly those with…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 2
Giving the limit rider more than two minutes start, scratch marker Gordon Harman failed by…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 7
Two motor cyclists are in Wollongong Hospital following weekend road accidents…
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Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 4
A warning ray device invented in Germany is being tested on the roads in England. A nearly invisible ray…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 11
Horn-mad, according to Webster, means raving mad. The same term applied to motorists describes that…
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Kiama Independent · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 1
A motor-cyclist was injured in a collision on the Prince's Highway near the Dunmore Road on Sunday. He was Cecil William Clout, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Language Used on Railway Brings £5 Fine
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 8
Mr. Fleeman, S.M., in Wollongong Court yesterday fined William Davis, of Marrickville, £5 for using…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 4
Mist on the windscreen, causing him to lose sight of the road in heavy rain, was the excuse given at the…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 3
A move, which it is hoped to make state-wide, has been started in the Kangaroo Valley district, to have all revenue…
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