Road Toll Soars
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Road accidents rose sharply last year compared with 1949, according to final figures released by the Road…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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Industries' Offer On Road Works
Three heavy industries were prepared to contribute land, money and material to improve the intersection of Bull and Ingall Streets,…
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The State would not make a contribution to Newcastle City Councils £680,000 road loan, the Premier (Mr. McGirr) advised the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce (Mr. W. J. Hutchinson)…
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A suggestion from the Road Safety Council that its work could be made more effective if State local government authorities would…
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Newcastle City Council last night adopted the recommendation of the Town Clerk (Mr. Burges) that the Department of Road…
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The State Government's decision not to contribute to Newcastle City Council's proposed £680,000 road loan would not be accepted…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—The British motor industry is facing its biggest crisis since the war because a shipping…
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DARWIN, Thursday—Heavy rain has washed away 12 miles of bitumen, 350 miles south of Darwin and six heavy trucks are…
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Plans will be drawn up to construct a £7000 road for Marks Point. Lake Macquarie Shire Council…
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Miners objected to the council's decision to tar-seal the Lorne-Fassifern road to Newstan colliery, instead of the…
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TENTERFIELD: A hitch-hiking Sydney University student was killed and two fellow-students seriously injured when a semi-trailer crashed near Tenterfield last night…
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The condition of those injured in the cartrain crash at East Maitland last night was today reported by Maitland Hospital to be satisfactory. Mrs. Joyce Plumridge, 39, of Young-rd., Lambton, was killed…
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Two motorcyclists received severe injuries when their machines collided on the Newcastle-rd., near the Tarro…
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SYDNEY: A man was critically injured and his wife, sister, mother and father badly hurt when a car skidded and crashed into a telegraph pole near the corner of West-st. and Pacific Highway, North…
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FORT LAUDERDALE (Florida), Mon. (O.S.R.).—Velman Yeager, 41, farmer, and his lost thumb are together again. An alert motorist saw the thumb on the street after Yeager's motor cycle aud a car collided and took it to…
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Technical College Rugby Union roach will give this season's team regular physical training workouts, commencing on Thursday, Mar. 1, at…
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LONDON, Feb. 26. A.A.P.—Thirty-two passengers in the York-Liverpool express were injured, three seriously, when the train, slowing…
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A start was made yesterday on Newcastle City Council's £45,000 programme to repair bus routes. Using the shovel in Leonard-street, Mayfield, was Mr. Stan Amour, while Mr. Harold Adamson drove the bulldozer…
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LONDON, Feb. 26. A.A.P.—The State-owned railways returned to normal running to-day after last week's disputes on wages issues…
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SYDNEY: A 25 per cent, cut in rail freight traffic would drastically hit country storekeepers and seriously affect supplies of raw materials for Sydney, officials of several organisations said today…
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