Damage To Roads By Digging
A move to minimise the digging up of roads to lay pipes was made by Newcastle Council Finance Committee last…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
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Beach Girl Clerk With Motor Firm
Tall and blonde, 18-year-old Barbara Preston, of Darby-st., Cook's Hill, is today's finalist in Newcastle Surf Club's beach girl competition…
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Main Roads Department engineers and the electrical contractors arranged to work from midnight last night till…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plans To Dig Up More Tram Tracks
Plans to remove more tram tracks in Newcastle this year were discussed yesterday at Newcastle City Hall…
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Just what is Mr. Winsor, the Commissioner for Railways, advertising on the radio?…
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Reporting to the Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night, the engineer (Mr. Webb), said it might be more satisfactory to rebuild the bridge over the railway line at Catherine…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →41 Hurt By Runaway Train At Washington
WASHINGTON, Thurs., (AAP): A runaway express train crashed into Washington's big Union Station today, injuring 41 persons. Two hours later 24…
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SYDNEY: A bus driver was injured when a crowded tram crashed into the side of an empty…
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A familiar face has disappeared from the barriers at Newcastle and Broadmeadow railway stations…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Camp[?]elltown police are investigation the death of a nine-year-old boy on a train to-day…
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TOKYO, Jan. 16.—The main structure of the worldfamous "Bridge of Brocaded Sash" at Iwakuni has at last…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Detectives on the Waverton murder case have interviewed eight people who were on a…
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ATLANTA (Georgia), Jan. 18. A.A.P.—Five people were injured, two critically, when the Atlantic Coast…
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It's the "track" between Adelaide and Alice Springs. The much-travelled driver. Mr. Keith Lawson. says it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Move To Get Finance For Aerodrome
Newcastle aldermen to-night are expected to authorise an approach to Federal Ministers for the…
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TAMWORTH, Monday.— Motor-cyclist Jack Ehret broke the Australian land speed record of 139.39 miles an hour…
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Special railway excursion tickets will be issued from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, inclusive, for journeys…
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KATOOMBA.—William Watson (24), of, Morwick-st., Strathfield, who was critically injured…
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Newcastle City Council will ask the Department of Main Roads to build a new approach to Hexham Bridge…
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Money will be set aside in this year's Newcastle Council estimates for the specific purpose of…
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