New Cotton Fabric for Aeroplane Wings
"An Australian made cotton fabric embodying improvements designed to conform with the more rigid…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
730 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 37
11 Killed; 100 Injured in British Train Crash
LONDON, Tuesday:-- At least 11 persons were killed and about 100 injured when a workers' special and a passenger train from Leigh collided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Timetables Mail Leaves at 9 20 a.m
Trains which left Sydney last night will be an hour late when they reach North Coast. towns to-day. Trains from the North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Versatile R.a.f. Officer Commandeered and Drove Train
SINGAPORE, Tuesday: -- By commandeering a train and three carriages and driving the engine himself after being ordered to…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: -- On and after Friday all motor vehicles will be prohibited from carrying goods to any place more…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — An appeal to motorists to use as little petrol as possible to-morrow was made to-day by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Aerodrome "Captured" by "Attacking Americans"
LONDON. -- The British Army's plan for defending air fields was reviewed as a sequel to manoeuvres in which a score of middle-aged American businessmen captured the heavily manned general headquarters of a brigade defending an important…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell From Railway Platform
CASINO, Thursday.—S. Sorensen. 52, of Keen-street, Lismore, was injured when he fell from the platform of Coombell railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Excursion Fares For Railway Travel
The acting secretary for Railways advises that no special trains will be run to provide the usual monthly excursion service for January, but on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.a.a.f. Exploit Recovered Aircraft From Abandoned Aerodrome
To recover some documents that might have aided the enemy, a lying officer belonging, to an R.A.A.F. squadron in up-country…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Britain Scraps Whole Railway
Britain is throwing a whole railway into the mobilisation of iron and steel for the war. Although it is an old railway, its rails alone will add…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Concessions for Fodder No Reply to Applications at Lismore
LISMORE.--No acknowledgement has yet been received to the application by Norco Co-Op. Ltd. for fodder…
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More than 65,000 old number plates are to be dumped into Bass Strait by the Victorian motor registration authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →22,953 Vehicles Off Victorian Roads
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: -- Motor vehicles totalling 22,953 were put off the road in Victoria last year owing to petrol rationing and wastage. The number…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Full-time Officers to Train V.d.c. Provision Made
CANBERRA, Tuesday: -- The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) announced that the Government has provided £85,000 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Concession Rates for Stock Fodder. 'Application Will Succeed' Mr. Frith
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—"There is little doubt that the application will be granted," declared Mr. W. Frith, M.L.A. for Lismore, to-day, referring to the applications made to have the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Devastating Raid on Axis Aerodrome
LONDON, Tuesday:-- The Air Ministry says that R.A.F. medium bombers without loss carried out a devastating,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Committee Formed to Co-ordinate U.s. Motor Industry
WASHINGTON, Tuesday: -- The Office of Production Management has announced the creation of a labor management committee to draft plans…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Stolen
A 1939 model Ford VS sedan, painted green, the property of Mr. Ray Gordon, of 10 Flint-st., Grafton, was stolen at Grafton between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£238,743 for Roads in Queensland
BRISBANE, Thursday: -- The expenditure of £238,743 on road works was authorised by the Executive Council to-day. It includes £62,720 on…
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