Curtailment of Railway Excursion Fares
SYDNEY: Cancellation of excursion fares within the tourist area was announced to-day by the Railway Commissioner (Mr…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
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No Passengers on Transcontinental Railway Line
SYDNEY: After the west-bound train leaves Port Pirie to-day passenger traffic in that direction on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sailing and Motor Yacht Club Notes Port Hunter Skiffs
On Saturday the Port Hunter Sailing Club will conduct a handicap race for the final heat of the Doherty trophy, over the harbor course…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jones Scores 208 in Tramway Cricket Final
No. 1 team supplied entertaining cricket in the final of the Newcastle District Tramway and Transport cricket competition,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Suburban and District Repair Chatham-road Bridge
Chatham-road bridge, Hamilton North was dangerous to traffic, and pedestrians, said Ald. G W. Jenner last night at a meeting of the executive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Raids on Ships and Aerodrome
LONDON, Thursday (AAP):—British torpedo-planes have hit and probably destroyed two more Axis ships in Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Churches Maitland Road Baptists
The Rev. W. Gibbins will be the preacher at morning and evening services at the Maitland Road Baptist Church, Islington, to-morrow. His…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attack on Burma Front. Machine Guns Mow Down Japanese Fighting Flares Up On Road To Mandalay
LONDON, Friday (AAP): Heavy fighting has developed between British and Japanese forces near Toungoo, on the Sittung River and on the road to Mandalay…
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SYDNEY.—Trams and bus" will keep going in case of on air raid, but drivers may cease running if they deem it dangerous…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Severely injured when his truck was wrecked by a goods train at the Lord-street crossing, Mascot, yesterday, Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lorry Ablaze on Railway Truck
MUSWELLBROOK: An attempt to steal petrol from the tank of a lorry on a railway truck resulted in an outbreak of fire, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Traffic in Brownout
Many train and bus conductors in Newcastle are not perturbed by the possible edict of the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullvan)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Need Parents' Consent Train Boy Dispatch Riders
A proposal to train groups of dispatch riders at schools as a means of communication in an emergency could not be carried out unless the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck by Tram in Brownout
In the brown-out last night, William Wort, 70, of Broadmeadow-road, Broadmeadow, was struck by a tram at the corner of Tudor and Murray…
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SYDNEY.— In the Traffic Court to-day 190 charges were heard against motorists who had left their vehicles without tail lights…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Train Visitors
SYDNEY.—Moondarewa will be taken over by Randwick trainer P. Dalton next Saturday, and Pearl Bay by J. Booshand, when that trainer arrives in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Former Newcastle Surfer Escape from Java on Tramp Steamer
Leading-aircraftsman T. A. Milgate, former well-known Newcastle surfer escaped from Java on a Chinese tramp steamer with only a bag of rice and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—When a car he was driving skidded and overturned on Liverpool-road, Chullora, this afternoon, Charles Louis Treuer,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Variation of Tram Award
SYDNEY: Judge Drake Brockman. In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, varied the award of railway and tramway employees in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train All Men to Fight
CANBERRA, Friday.—A consolidated plan to regiment the whole of the surplus army material in country centres into a well-trained…
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