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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
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Trailing out from Lashio, oddest of Burmese mushroom cities, where many races have come together in a mixture of antiquity and modernity, is the newly silvered, bitumen-covered Burma Road. A few months ago it was as red as the soil which edges it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No special trains will be run to provide the monthly excursion service for January, but on selected dates in the second week of January return tickets at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—The Army and Navy Departments have jointly announced that they are asking the automobile industry to accept 5000 million dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Easton of Stephen Street, Cessnock charged in the Cessnock Police Court to-day with having failed while driving a car at an intersection, to give way to the vehicle on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Jan. 6.—Further withdrawals on the east coast and in the west have been made by Imperial forces in Malaya. On the east coast Imperial forces have withdrawn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although the Railway Department is issuing concession fare tickets for children who are leaving with their parents for any point outside the central coastal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dangerous condition of the timber bridge at Buchanan, on the road from West Wallsend to Kurri Kurri, caused concern at a meeting of Tarro Council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY.—Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, who is interested in meteorology as well as bridges, believes that Sydney's water worries will be over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Percy Paige, 31, of Gateshead, suffered a fractured skull, concussion and shock when he fell from a motor-cycle in the Main-road, Charlestown, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Secretary of the National Union of Raliwaymen of Australia (Mr. W. Fletcher) denied reports that 2000 men employed in extra gangs in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Mr. Copland) said to-day that insurance rates on motor-ears would he examined in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special trams will be run Newcastle races on Saturday, the Traffic Superintendent (Mr. Kilpatrick) announced to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY: Special race trams, but not buses, will run to Randwick Racecourse next Saturday, said the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Handicaps for the seventh heat of the Mark's Point Dinghy Club's point score competition on Saturday, starting at 2.30 p.m. are: Swifty (R. Sinciair) ser., Buccaneer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rev. A. J. Gould will conduct the morning service. The evening preacher will be Mr. D. E. Pickering. Anthem by the choir…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—One hundred employees on the Main Roads Board job at Villawood, who were dismissed yesterday, for sitting down to drink their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Friday:—Included in the officers to be brought back from the Middle East to assist in the training of the home forces will be at least two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday—There was no likelihood of special racecourse transport being restored to the extent to which it formerly operated the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Exemption from State income tax is provided for income which is a pension derived by any person whose net income from all sources does not exceed £200 a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The resumption of the usual tram service to the course and the later starting of the programme, should improve the attendance at Newcastle races this…
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