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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1942

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Road Accident Inquest To Be Held

Northern Star · Friday 17 April 1942 · page 4

Henry Frohmuller, an 85 years old farmer, of South Gundurimba, was the victim of Lismore's first [?]atal brownout accident. He died…

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News From All Sources Motorists Suffer Stupid Brown-outs

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1942 · page 5

The difficulties of the motorist in complying with the N.E.S. and Motor Traffic regulations is pointed out by the general secretary of the N.R.M.A…

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Two Injured in Train Collision

Northern Star · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Friday.—Two men were slightly injured, two locomotives seriously damaged, 13 trucks seriously damaged and 30 sheep…

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CYCLING. Casino Road Race

Northern Star · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 7

CASINO, Friday.—Following are the handicaps for tomorrow's 5mile road race:- R Noble. L ward, R Johnson,…

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Acetylene Gas As Motor Fuel

Northern Star · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 8

Acetylene gas is being so widely usea as a substitute fuel in Switzerland, that at a recent motor show an Zurich seven types of…

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Tweed Heads Bridge Party

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 April 1942 · page 2

A bridge party was conducted at the Henry Lilley Hall by the Tweed Heads Church of England Ladies' Guild on Friday afternoon. Mrs G…

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Patriotic Bridge Club

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 7

Mesdames C. G. McKee and C. W. Fraser had the highest scores at Saturday's meeting of Kyogle Patriotic Bridge Club…

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Tobruk Derelicts Travel the Road

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 2

CAIRO. -- Two hundred A.I.F. vericles, abandoned [?] useless during the fighting around Tobruk, are now travelling [?] roads of the Middle East again. A hundred more are being repaired and reconditioned at the rate of about 30 a week by an Australian…

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Motor Registration

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 4

THE 20 per cent reduction in motor registration fees proposed by the New South Wales Government in the Bill brought…

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Body Under Bridge

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The body of Miss Patricia Gwynne (24), of North Sydney, was found lying underneath the suspension bridge at Middle Harbor…

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Woman Killed in Bridge Fall

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Patricia Gwynne, 24, of North Sydney, fell from the Suspension Bridge, Northbridge, and was killed. There…

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Cut in Country Train Services

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—On and from Sunday, May 3, the New South Wales country train services will be drastically…

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15,000 Empire Railwaymen Running Trains in Middle East

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 5

Vital movement of troops and equipment for Britain's great armies in the Middle East, as well as supplies for a civil population of…

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Big Saving by Train Service Cut

Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Following the announcement on Tuesday of various restrictions on country train services as from Sunday…

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Motor Industry Used Huge Supplies of Crude Rubber

Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 6

In view of the fact that stocks of crude rubber, supplies of which for the time being, have been cut off from the Far East, have…

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Serious Train Curtailments

Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

In another column a definite warning is given by the Commissioner for Railways, Mr T J Hartigan, that on and from Sunday, May…

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Restrictions of Train Services Forecast

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

Asked yesterday if the restrictions on country train services which, it was announced in Sydney, will operate from May 3, would affect any trains…

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Record Railway Revenue Likely

Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—An all-time peak revenue of more than £26 million from record railway…

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Agreement on Motor Lighting

Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday—Departmental officers at a conference today reached an agreement as to a uniformity in lighting…

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£2094 Damages Awarded Fatality in Motor Collision

Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A Dorothy Mavis Beasley, of Werclaim for £10,000 damages by ridee, and Thomas Beasley,…

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