"Save a Life" Is Road Motto
SYDNEY, Friday.—Slippery roads and reduced visibility increased the need for the greatest caution by road-users, the Road Safety…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Load Reserve Coal For Railways
LITHGOW, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board and Western miners' officials have agreed to load 10,000 tons of coal at Ben Bullen coal…
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A motor cyclist and his pillion rider were admitted to Maitland General Hospital last night following an accident at…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—The Hon. Gerald William Desmond Plunkett, brother of the Earl of Fingall, Ireland, has died in Brisbane, aged…
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Struck by a motor-vehicle while crossing the Pacific Highway, Belmont, last night, Terence Turner, 10, of Macquarie-street, Belmont,…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.). — British railways are making drastic staff reductions in the next few months to help offset…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—Blizzards and heavy snow in western areas of the United States have closed many highways and stranded…
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The drovers of whom Australian songs were written are still at work in the Hunter. Drover Les. Wheatman brings a mob along…
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LONDON, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—Twelve Lincolns of the R.A.F. Bomber Command have left for Shallufa, in the Suez Canal zone…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Eight people were slightly injured when a tram ran into the back of another stationary tram in Oxford-street,…
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The cost of maintenance of roads used by the buses in the Newcastle area was being investigated, the Minister for Transport (Mr…
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LONDON, January 4. A.A.P.—Stanley Wootton, who is a member of one of the most famous families in racing, has decided to take on…
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If would be unjust and ludicrous to lay the blame for all accidents at the door of the motorist, but it is heartening…
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AN eight-year-old boy, without boots or hat, and wearing a blue lumber-jacket and pair of pyjama trousers, was found asleep…
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Considerable road construction work had been completed in anticipation of the Wallsend trams being replaced by buses, the City…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—"If rail restrictions were necessary because of diminishing coal stocks they would be on a moderate scale," the Minister for Transport (Mr…
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A single deck bus operated by Chapmans, of Hamilton South, was knocked on its side in a collision with a tram at the corner…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Tram and bus employees were restive over a Court delay on their log of claims, the Federal Secretary of the…
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SYDNEY—A motor cycle and taxi collided at the corner of Woodville Rd. and Merrylands Rd., Parramatta, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For Hexham Bridge Lift Span
The first former of the lift span for the Hexham road bridge is nearing completion at the State Dockyard. Picture shows two sections of the lower which will be assembled at the site of the bridge. The tower of the lift span, which can be raised to allow…
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