Actor Killed by Tram in City Brown-out
SYDNEY, Friday. â Knocked down by a tram in which the lighting conformed to brown-out regulations, Karl Lea Sonya, 30 years…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
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Mr. Curtin on Short Commons on Train Trip
MELBOURNE, Sunday: The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the members of his staff on the train from Perth spent the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Navy to Train 30,000 Air Pilots
WASHINGTON, Sunday: The Navy Department announced plans to train 30,000 pilots in the greatest aviation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excursion Fares for Railway Travel
The Railway Department announces that no special trains will be run to provide the usual monthly excursion services for February, but on certain…
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CANBERRA.--A reduction of 25 per cent. on the pre-war rate of insurance for motor vehicles and 12½ per cent. on commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Vehicles Insurance Premiums Reduced
CANBERRA, Monday.—A reduction of 25 per cent, on the pre-war rate of insurance for motor vehicles ano 12½ per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Headlights Must Be Masked
Motorists in Lismore last night were halted by the police and informed that unless they complied with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cudgen N.e.s. to Train in First Aid
A meeting of Cudgen branch of the N.E.S. was held in the Memorial Hall, Cudgen, on Monday last. There was a good attendance and several new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →R.a.f. Carried Food to Marooned Train Passengers
LONDON, Tuesday:--It is now revealed that the R.A.F. brought food to marooned passengers in a train buried in a snowdrift in the middle of…
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Motorists who intend to use their cars between sunset and sunrise in black outs are not required to use masked headlights…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Expired Motor Plates Bring [?]
For having fair to return an expired motor number plate, Frederick J. Snow, who was stated to have had a number of previous convictions for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blackout Lamps Motorists Getting Ready
Lismore motorists arc not going to be caught without proper equipment in a blackout. Evidence of this is provided by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Toll Declined Last Year
There were 443 fatal road accidents reported in New South Wales during the year ended June 30, 1941, and 5,572 other accidents in which road users suffered bodily injury. These figures are contained in a report issued by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queen At Bomber Aerodrome
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, with Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Commander-in-Chief of the Bomber Command, watching a mack low-leval attack by one of Britain's latest aircraft outside the Officers'. Mess at a British Bomber Command station. With King George she talked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patriotic Bridge Club
The highest scores at Saturday's meeting of Kyogle Patriotic Bridge Club were registered by Mesdames E. B. Shirley and J. K. Griffiths…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Repairs in Emergency
Suggestions for the organisation of emergency gangs to deal with any repairs to State highways and the more important main and trunk roads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road For Evacuation Of District Toonumbar-duck Ck Favoured Shire President To See Govt
Kyogle Shire Council yesterday decided that the president. Cr. E. L. Vincent, should go to Sydney as soon as possible to place before the Government the urgent necessity of constructing roads between Toonumbar and Duck Creek and Sextonville and Gorge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Banana" Train
The "banana" train ran early this (Wednesday) morning in one division, leaving an hour earlier than the usual second division, and will pick up on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Removal of Road Signs
CANBERRA, Tuesday:--Powers are being taken by the Government to enable the home security and military authorities to remove road signs in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kyogle Shire Council Roads Sought As Evacuation Measures
KYOGLE, Tuesday.—Kyogle Shire Council at last meeting decided that the president, Cr. E. L. Vincent, should visit…
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