Kempsey Aerodrome Being Enlarged
KEMPSEY, Monday. — Work has commenced on the enlargement to more than twice its present size of Aldavilla Aerodrome at…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
1,422 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 72
Arm Crushed Under Train
A boy had his left arm so badly crushed when he fell under a coal train in Bruce-st., Cook's Hill, today that…
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The District Council of Progress Associations will be asked to support a request that numbered tram stops, more economical than those…
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A boy's left arm was amputated at Newcastle Hospital yesterday after he had fallen beneath a coal train near his home in Bruce-street…
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Desmond Ernest Stead, of Hunter-street, Wickham, was fined £10, with 10/ costs, by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle…
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GRAFTON, Wednesday.—J. Hassett and J. Bull, railway bridge examiners had narrow escapes when a motor tricycle they were riding…
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Yesterday, Mr. Jack Veughan, tramdriver, of High-street, Waratah, shared first prize in the State Lottery. In the New Year's special State Lottery, famous athletes, Herb, Mckenley and Lloyd La Beach (left), who competed at the Sports Ground last night, held a ticket which was one number off the £12,000 first prize. The two athletes are seen congratulating Mr…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-day that a Swedish concrete firm had been correctly informed by the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The three-year-old son of the assistant station master at Cowan, near Hornsby, was fatally injured by a…
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Visitors for the State country swimming championships to be held in the Ocean Baths to-morrow and on Monday were…
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While drinking wine in a Sydney-bound train near Coff's Harbour, on January 20, a soldier threw a tumbler from the compartment…
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CANBERRA, Friday. — Mr. Chifley will go to Sydney on Tuesday and on Wednesday will attend the interstate railways…
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Summer holiday timetables will be in force on all departmental bus and tram services on Monday. Normal colliery services will be…
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WEST WYALONG. - Suffering from a fractured skull, Eileen Compton, 21, of Central. Wyalong, was found about eight…
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A tram crushed a woman to death in Tudor-street, Hamilton, on Saturday night She was Mrs. Adelaide Bashford,…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A youth aged 16 told police to-day that when a woman jumped from the back of his truck and collapsed…
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Tenders submitted by Mr. G. Miller (Waratah) for reconstruction of two bridges were accepted by Lower Hunter Shire…
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Lake Macquarie Shire Council spent £25,000 less on maintenance of roads from 1941 to 1948 than it did in the equivalent period of 1926-1933, the engineer (Mr. J. W. Webb) told the council last night…
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Flight-Lieut. J. A. Rowland will leave for England to-day on the Orcades to begin a test pilot's course at Farnborough, Hampshire…
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A new road, link between Fassifern and Rhondda, favored by the Lake Shire Council last night, would provide better…
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