All Roads Lead To Rome
AFTER a lot of vague talk that the. Allied armies could do nothing very much In Italy until the snow melted In April, General…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
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Train Delays Due to Derailment
The derailment of a truck between Bulllac and Bundook. about 30 miles from Taree early this morning, held up both the up and…
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GOSFORD, Sunday.—Frederick William Clifford, a veterinary surgeon, of Maitland-road, Mayfield, was walking along the Pacific Highway…
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Complaints about delay by the Government in dealing with requests for improvement in superannuation conditions were made at a meeting of…
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LONDON, Sunday. — Now in its 10th day, the great Red Army offensive on the Leningrad front has resolved itself into a drive for complete control of a railway running west to Narva (Estonia)…
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The British and American landing near Nettuno is the most ambitious stroke attempted in Italy since the disembarkation on…
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On the night or December 30 the body or William Joseph Robson (36), laborer, or Fullerton Road, North Stockton, was found…
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Newcastle and outlying suburbs will be without trams and buses to-morrow. Members of the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees' Association will hold a stop-work meeting to protest against the shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor-car Grass Mower
Motor-car purchased by Maitland Cricket Club for £, converted into a mowing machine. The club has relieved Bolwarra Shire Council of maintenance of Lorn Park Oval, which can be mown in an hour and a half. Most members have learned to…
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SYDNEY.—There will be no stoppage of work by railway employees. Judge Drake Brockman made this statement after a…
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SYDNEY.—The compulsory conference presided over by Judge Drake-Brockman to consider railway guards' holidays was…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—When a motor-car in which they were travelling skidded on a turn in Skene Creek road, five miles from Apollo…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Advancing eight miles in 24 hours, British and American troops have extended their new Italian bridgehead 12 miles' inland. Fifteen miles of coastline are now held, and German reports put Allied patrols 15 miles inland—across the Appian Way and in possession of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Curtin Orders Tram Men to Stay at Work No Morning Services In Newcastle Or Sydney
Acting under powers conferred by the National Security Act the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) last night directed New South Wales tramway workers to remain at work. A similar direction was issued to officials of the transport unions concerned…
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Tramway services in Newcastle ceased when the second of the all-night trams, due to leave Parnell-place at 2.38 a.m., did not run. Later…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Following a compulsory conference he had with representatives of the Australian Railways Union, the National Union…
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Newcastle tram and bus men decided at their mass meeting at the Trades Hall to-day not to obey the National Security order to resume work immediately. They decided that then would stand by their decision not to resume until midnight. A similar decision was made in Sydney…
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A SECTION of the large crowd which attended the stop-work meeting of tram and bus employees at the Newcastle Trades hall this morning…
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The first rostered tram service tomorrow morning is the 1.50 a.m. service from Pnrnell Place to Walk end. According to the decision…
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After hearing the report of a deputation from miners' representatives and members of the council to the Minister for Local Government and…
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