16 Refugees Died on Train; Poland Blamed
LONDON, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—Poland had not carried out the transport of refugees from Poland to the British Zone in Germany in the humane…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
1,590 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 80
Youths Hit by Tram, One Killed
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A youth was killed and another injured to-night when struck by a tram while they were boarding another at Bondi…
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Roy Clifford, 40, a fitter's labourer at Rylands, was hit by a tram when cycling across Tudor-street, near Beaumont-street, yesterday…
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When he stepped from a train at Newcastle Railway Station on January 23, John Colin Mercer, 19, draughtsman, told the ticket…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suburbia—This Week Where Cabbage Tree Road Begins A wind from the sea, in the slap-happy season of mosquitoes, beat back the insect invasion, and Williamtown was at peace with the world Its Cabbage Tree-road, which goes on to Raymond Terrace, stretched out lazily between farmlands and bush. The road to Medowie curved away silently past the aerodrome, and only occasional traffic breezed along the main highway between Stockton and Nelson's Bay
OVER the fields, the mass of aerodrome huts and hangars looked like miniatures, the yellow and silver "kites"—lined up on the tarmac…
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SYDNEY, Saturday morning.—A man was killed and four people were injured when a car crashed into a post in Military-road, Mosman, early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck By Car while Helping Fellow Motorist; Leg Severed
SYDNEY: While assisting a fellow motorist with a blowout early today, a young man was struck by another car, which severed his right leg and fractured his skull. The victim is Donald Keith MacKenzie, 21, of Old Canterbury Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Light As a Feather Aeroplane
This Gipsy Belfair, displayed at the light aircraft exhibition in England recently under the auspices of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is to light that the mechanic can be seen lifting one wheel off the ground by holding up the wing…
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Thousands of holiday-makers crowded Newcastle beaches and Lakeside resorts for the Australia Day Holiday. Heavy traffic lined…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 28. A.A.P.—At leapt four persons were killed and eight injured when a passenger train from Cincinnatti to Chicago was…
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WASHINGTON. Thursday: Air travel could become as safe as train travel if radar and other equipment…
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Vincent John Morris, 22, was charged at Newcastle Police Court today with driving a motor lorry while under the influence of liquor…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A man who fell from a train travelling between Canterbury and Campsie stations tonight rolled down a 20ft…
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Colin Allomes, 21, of King's-road, New Lambton, suffered burns to the hand when the tank of a motor-cycle he was filling with petrol caught…
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Dan Mitchell, 20, of Narrowgut. Morpeth, received abrasions, and contusions to the right thigh, knee, log, loot, ankle and shock when the motor cycle he was…
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Two men were killed—one in Newcastle and the other 20 miles from Singleton—in week-end road crashes. A former prisoner-of-war was…
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Newcastle Surf Life-saving Club yesterday imposed "permanent suspension" on four members who, it was stated,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Road Grant; Toronto Urban Body Critical
The refusal of Lake Macquarie Shire Council to make a grant towards the upkeep of the Coal Point Kilaben Bay bus route from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Communists Cut Peiping Railway
PEIPING, Feb. 2. A.A.P.—Communist guerillas, estimated at 6000 strong, cut the Peiping-Tientsin railway for the second time in three…
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After inspection of a site recommended by Belmont A.L.P., Mr. V. Furniss, of the Civil Aviation Department, said he thought it was…
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