Police Ask for Road Care
The Superintendent of Police (Mr. Swasbrick) yesterday appealed again to road users to observe regulations and try to prevent accidents…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
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Road Council To Consider New Driving Signals
SYDNEY: New Victorian system of hand signals for motorists will probably be considered by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W. at a special meeting early in the New Year. In the past the council…
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Railway, with one defeat, is leading in the A grade section of the Newcastle Tennis Association summer mixed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schoolboy Dies In Road Smash
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Harry John Taylor, 15-year-old schoolboy, of Hawkesbury-road. Westmead, was fatally…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Diana Maria Cirocco, 9, of Uraidla, was killed when she overbalanced and fell from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Toll Down
ADELAIDE, Friday.—Deaths from road accidents in South Australia in 1952 totalled 147. They showed a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Black Eye In Rozelle Train Smash
SYDNEY, Friday—The crew of a locomotive hauling bulk wheat trucks jumped clear just before it crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Racing Review
Australian Motor Racing Year Book No. 3 has been issued. It reviews a large number of competition cars which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fettlers' Leap To Escape Train
SYDNEY: A number of railway fettlers jumped for their lives seconds before a goods train crashed into the hand-trolley they were riding on between Redfern and Central Stations…
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PUSAN, Jan. 4. A.A.P.— A section of a United States Army freight train plunged off a bridge 18 miles south of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways In Drive To Save Scrap
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Railway employees have been directed to do their utmost to save scrap and other materials…
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Newcastle is contributing a considerable amount of steel scrap to the drive by the Commissioner for…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two women and a two-year-old boy were killed in road accidents in Sydney suburbs to-day and…
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NEW YORK, Mon., (A.A.P.): U.S. traffic deaths set a record for the New Year holiday and, combined with the Christmas holiday, exceeded 1000 for the first time…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 5. A.A.P.—Road deaths in the United States set a new record for the tour-day New Year…
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MANILA, Jan. 5. A.A.P.— About 80 persons are missing out of 150 who were plunged into shark-infested seas off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cyclist Chased By Carrington Police
When Reginald Leonard Johnstone (18), seaman, rode his motor cycle erratically in Cowper-st, Carrington, yesterday afternoon, he attracted the attention of Constables Prince and Cowan, who chased him on a police cycle…
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A recommendation by the Mayor (Ald. M. J. Clyde) that the Department of Main Roads be asked when definite action…
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ISTANBUL, (Reuter): Plans to link Europe with Asia by a bridge across the Bosphorus at Istanbul are once more the centre of controversy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Swamp Bridge' Repair Plans
Priority is to be given in Maitland Council's 1953 works programme to repairs to the "swamp…
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