Car Loads of Liquor by Back Roads
BRISBANE, Sunday.—Travelling only by night and crossing from New South Wales into Queensland by little-used roads and through…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
1,097 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 55
Little Hope For New Bridge At Carrington
Little hope for the early construction of a new bridge to Carrington to replace the present bridge at Cowper Street was held…
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The State Government was to be congratulated on its new deal for railway extra gangs. Mr. F. O'Kane, a railway officer, told Newcastle A.L.P. State…
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WAGGA, Monday.—While he was driving a motor-ear cross a level-crossing near Wagga trucking yards this morning, John Henry Tier, 39,…
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"It is disappointing to find the shoulders of the recently constructed portion of Donald Street breaking away because of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disaster Faces Germans in Western Ukraine Vital Railway Threatened
LONDON, March 6. A.A.P.—Marshal Zhukov's forces have driven a huge wedge into German positions in the Western Ukraine, says Reuter's correspondent in Moscow…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Manpower officials to-day directed 50 men employed at the Ford Company's motor works, Homebush, where a…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Road-making and repair machinery would be made available to country shires and municipalities immediately it…
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East Maitland Council will inquire how rentals for Commonwealth-owned houses in the municipality are decided. The council will inform…
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Ethel Butcher, 18, Dudley, suffered concussion and abrasions to the scalp when she fell from a tram at the corner of Tudor and…
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"We are doing our best to keep our staff up to the required strength, and if we could employ these men without any trouble we…
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"It is shocking," said the President of Merewether A.L.P. (Mr. G. Campbell) last night, describing overcrowding in a city-bound tram at 6.56 a.m…
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MELBOURNE.—Mating Call is to be walked from Melbourne (463 miles) to contest the Aderlaide Cup to May…
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A tram and a truck collided at Darby Street corner early this afternoon. The truck overturned and the tram was slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Want New Bridge For Carrington
A satisfactory bridge to Carrington at Cowper-street was essential not only to Carrington but to the whole of the district, the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Tobacco Road" at Tivoli
Many of those who attended the opening-night of "Tobacco Road" at the Newcastle Tivoli must have wondered why it has been called a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tobacco Road" Produced in Newcastle
There is no doubt about the sordid setting of "Tobacco Road." which opened at the Newcastle Tivoli Theatre last night, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burma Road Seen As Fetish
NEW YORK, March 13. A.A.P.—"Since the statement made by Admiral Nimitz (Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further Adjournment Charges Against 73 Tram-Bus Employees
SYDNEY.—Summonses against 73 tram and bus employees who absented themselves from work on January 27, the day of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unify Railway Gauges Cabinet Adopts Vast Three-stage Plan
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Full Cabinet endorsed a plan submitted by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) for standardisation of Australian railway gauges. It is proposed that this vast plan should be approached in three…
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