What People Think Train, Don't Plan
"HCC" writes:—It makes me hot under the collar to see so many fellows, 16 years or to younger than I am, still playing…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
1,070 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 54
Seven in Family Killed As Train Hits Car
NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Air Mail): S[?] [?]mbers of one family were killed to-day when their car was struck by the Grand Trunk…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Train Army for Offensive Military Policy to be Recast
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Recasting of Australia's military policy to take in more of the doctrine of offensive action and to match the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Claims Sand Put in Mine Motor Deliberately
LITHGOW, Wednesday.—Although local police are convinced that sand found in the motor at the Invincible colliery at Cullen Bullen was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News In Brief Motorists Summoned
Sydney: Five hundred and sixty Sydney motorists who failed to leave the tall lights alight on their vehicles in last week's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leaders Beaten In Tramway Cricket Contest
The leading team (No. 3) in the Newcastle District Tramway and Transport cricket competition was beater in its second…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sailing and Motor Yacht Club Notes Port Hunter Dinghies
Handicaps for Port Hunter Dinghy Club race next Sunday in conjunction with the Thompson aggregate point score are:—Kia-Ora (J. Dempsey) 18 1/2…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Ban Bridge and Dances for War Efforts"
SYDNEY.—"Instead of arranging bridge parties in the afternoon housewives should arrange camouflage net parties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded From Darwin Ambulance Train in Sydney
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Australia's first ambulance train reached Sydney to-day, carrying 90 wounded men, representing the three fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Road Baptists
The men's morning meeting at the Maitland Road Baptist Church. Islington, will be held to-morrow at 10 a.m. The speaker will be Mr. J. Sec. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed in Fall from Train
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The body of a man, believed to be that of William George, 62, a retired miner, of Kandos, was picked up beside the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured in Road Accident
Two men on a motor-cycle were injured in a collision with a car on the main road at Toronto while on their way to work. The rider,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sailing and Motor Yacht Club Notes Toronto Dinghies
Spasmodic conditions prevailed on Saturday for the second race of Toronto VJ dinghies for the December point score trophy. Carey Bay was the first rounding mark, were Chips…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rise in Motor Oil Prices
SYDNEY, Monday.—From to-day the public will pay from 3d to 8d more for each gallon of motor lubricating oil. Increases will vary according to size of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brownout Breaches By Motorists
SYDNEY: On the main thoroughfares from the city, special squads of traffic police stopped hundreds of vehicles last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rail Motor Capsizes, 15 Injured
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Fifteen persons were injured when the Heathcote-Kilmore rail motor jumped the rails a mile out of Pyalong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Direct Hits on Aerodrome Allied Planes Raid Koepang
CANBERRA. Wednesday—Allied aircraft raided Koepang aerodrome in Timor yesterday and scored direct hits. Enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Stormwater Bridge Plans
The Department of Main Roads last night sent plans for a new bridge over the stormwater channel at Rasberry Gully to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tenders to Be Called Gully Line Bridge
Tenders are to be called by Greater Newcastle Council for the construction of a new bridge over the stormwater channel at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Veterans' Association
The Retired Railway and Tramway Veterans' Association, at its meeting on Tuesday, carried a motion of sympathy with the widow and…
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