Tramway Cricket
The Newcastle District Transport and Tramway Cricket Association continued its competition at New Lambton Oval yesterday when No. 2 team defeated…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
855 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 43
Women Employees On Railways; Rates Issue Again
SYDNEY.—An application for final determination of rates to be paid to women employed on NSW railways was heard by the…
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ADELAIDE.—An American soldier, an RAAF sergeant and a nurse each played a part in saving the…
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The estimated cost of the Gully Line Bridge—with approaches and resumptions—is £8539. The Department of Main Roads…
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SYDNEY.—Railway Commissioner Hartigan announced this afternoon that there would be further train curtailments this…
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To cope with the heavy passenger traffic from Cessnock to Newcastle on Sundays, the South Maitland Railways Company had decided to continue the…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Minister for Home Security, replying on behalf of the Minister for the Interior to Mr. James (Lab…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Old Dog for the Hard Road
It is reported that the deprivation Mr. Churchill feels most in his illness is the loss of his cigar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fought Way Out of Jap Ambush, Tramped 80 Miles
ADELAIDE—Five South Australians fought their way out of a Japanese ambush, tramped 80 miles over the Owen Stanley…
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The District Superintendent of Traffic. Mr. W. H. Kilpatrick, announced this afternoon that, following representations made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attack on Bridge Builders
When the German evacuated the town of Medjez el Bab in Tunisia, they demolished the centre span of the bridge over the river and blew a large crater in a ford about 100 yards up stream. Royal Engineers quickly repaired the bridge and filled…
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A month's trial will be given to the extension of the Newcastle-Broadmeadow tram service to the Racecourse. The service, which will…
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Believed to have been struck by a tram at Waratah tram terminus, Mabel Wooderson, 38, of Albion-street, East Sydney, was admitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fine of £25 Motor Fuel Licence Not Returned
In the Newcastle Summons Court yesterday, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., imposed a fine of £25, with costs totalling £3/11/, on Patrick Francis Mahony…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Made Island Into U.s. Aerodrome
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell) last night disclosed that Australian workmen recently built an aerodrome which the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to Editor Bad Road
Sir,—I desire to direct attention to the condition of Bull-street, Mayfield between Stewart and Lloyds and Rylands. On this road, which carries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Alexander Drives Railway Spike
Generally Alexander, now Deputy Commander-in-Chief in North Africa, drives the last spike in the Beirut-Tripoli railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brigade to Train Nes Firefighters
Newcastle NES completed arrangements with NSW Fire Brigade to-day for instructional classes for the NES Fire Guard…
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SYDNEY.—A naked man was stopped to-day from Jumping from the Sydney Harbor Bridge. He had climbed on to the top…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways May Lose Zara St
SYDNEY.—Zara Street Power Station is to be transferred from railways control to that of the Public Works…
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