Lorry Off Road, in Creek Bed 130-Mile Trip for Ambulance
Plunging off the Pacific Highway five miles north of Limeburner's Creek yesterday afternoon, a motor-lorry crashed about 10 feet down…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
855 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 43
U.s. Women at Motor School
Studying to be instructors in U.S. Army motor maintenance, these officers of the Women's Auxiliary Corps are at work in an ordnance motor transport school. After textbook study and experience in repairing engines, they qualify to teach other…
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Huge steel mat, laid on a Guadalcanal airfield by American engineers, has helped manoeuvring by such big planes as these Flying Fortresses. A group Australian soldiers bring ashore gasoline drums which were dropped from a supply ship in New Guinea…
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HOBART, Sunday.—When a lorry skidded over a bank and overturned at Gretna, Peter Strong, 70, of Gretna, Neal Colin Collicot Hope, 50, of…
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Injured when a motor-lorry overturned between Stroud and Bulahdelah on Saturday afternoon, Norman Godwin, 20, of Buldahdelah, died…
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LONDON, Jan. 24.—Reports reaching London tell how 20 masked Belgians recently fought their way at the point of the revolver into some…
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In a report to Greater Newcastle Works Committee yesterday, the Acting City Engineer (Mr. Rudd) advised the possibility of an early start…
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In reply to a complaint of over-crowding on the 9 a.m. train from Cessnock on Sunday, January 17, the Chairman of Directors of the…
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NEW YORK. Monday.—A negro dining car waiter has been detained for questioning In connection with the death of Mrs. Martha…
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A tram conductor, William Johnson, 27, of Pearce-street, Belmont fell from the footboard of a tram yesterday. He told Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—To save fuel, cars and repairs, restrictions are to be imposed on the distance travelled for funerals…
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Sir,—On Sunday, January 10, my husband boarded a Sydney-bound train. He was returning to camp after leave. After searching the…
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NEW YORK, January 26.—A negro dining car waiter has been held for questioning in the murder of Mrs. Martha James, 21, a naval officer's…
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An additional train will be run next Sunday morning from Cessnock to Newcastle. It will not necessarily be continued on other…
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Trevor Walker, 4, of Bluegum-road, Wallsend, was struck by a tram at the corner of Stewart-avenue and Hunter-street, last night…
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SYDNEY.—Mass meetings of tram and bus employees, which had been set down for next Sunday, have been postponed until…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—An acetylene gas cylinder on a motor-truck travelling alongside an outward bound tramcar to Balmoral…
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LONDON, Jan. 28.—The Russian offensive is still spreading to new areas. Berlin Radio announced that the Russians are attacking north-west of Voronezh, in a sector not…
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CANBERRA.—Questions may be asked in the Federal Parliament next week on two complaints by members about the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Under Tramline
Wallsend Fire Brigade was called out this morning when a fire broke out in the "cow-catchers" under the tramline near the White…
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