Fallon Attacks Main Roads Commission
BRISBANE, Tuesday. — The Secretary of the A.W.U., Mr. Fallon, in a lengthy and fiery address to delegates of the A.W.U. to-day, verbally tore to ribbons the Main Roads…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
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Unlawfully Used Motor Cycle
At Coolangata Police Court yesterday before Messrs. W. H. Stafford and C. Dobson, J's.P., Hector Arthur McAndrew (24), a member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rommel's Forces Streaming West From Tripoli Coast Road 'A Strafers' Paradis': Homs, Tarhuna Occuped By 8th Army
LONDON, Thursday (AAP). — Latest Cairo messages state that Rommel's forces have evacuated Tripoli and are fleeing westward towards Tunisia. Huge fires are reported to be burning in Tripoli as a result of R.A.F. attacks and from demolition of dumps and stores by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Changes in Railway System Mr. Hartigan's Half-Century Of Service
Big changes in the New South Wales railway service, which now occupies a predominant place in Australia's transport field, have been witnessed by the Railway Commissioner, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, who, having entered the railway service as a junior…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Registrations Down 60,308
Since the outbreak of war motor vehicle registrations in New South Wales have fallen by 60,308, the Road Transport Commissioner, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News from the Districts Motor Traffic Breaches at Casino
CASINO, Thursday.—Cyril Gresinger, cattle dealer, appeared before the Police Magistrate (Mr. R. M. Stewart) this morning charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mile-a-Day Progress On Railway
NEW DELHI, Thursday (AAP).—Across the scorching Iraq desert, with is daily sandstorms and occasional…
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Complaints have been received by the State Secretary of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. (Lieut. A. R. Cutler, V.C.), about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fined for Allowing Animal to Stray on Road
In Mullumbimby Police Court before Mr A. J. Bryant PM, George Henry Wallis, of Mullumbimby, was fined £1 and ordered to pay 12…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—As a result of a collision between a military truck and a tram at Mascot today Joseph Rossitter (11), of Mascot,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Road Is Still Long
In his review of the war situation in the House of Commons the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) declared that the initiative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Banana Growers' Tribute to Railway Officers
Stating at the annual meeting of shareholders of the New South Wales Banana Growers' Federation at Murwillumbah on Friday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Electric Motor Causes Fire In Cafe
CASINO, Sunday.—Awakened at 3 o'clock this morning by an unusual sound in the Black and White Cafe in Barker-street the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berlin Broadcasts Gossip Picked Up in Suburban Train
CANBERRA, Monday.—The gossip of two men in a Sydney suburban train regarding damaged ships, now again in service, was broadcast shortly afterwards by Berlin radio. The two passengers had…
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LONDON, Monday: The Air Ministry News Service reveals that one RAF fighter group alone in the last nine months has shot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Save Wear on Tyres Motor Speed Limit Fixed At 40 M.P.H.
To conserve motor parts and especially to save wear on tyres all vehicles in Australia after February 1 will be restricted to 40 miles an hour. An order to this effect by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kyogle Thirty Years Ago Kyogle-beaudesert Railway
Mr. Hassall, inspecting engineer of Queensland railways, arrived in Kyogle on Friday night and left again on Saturday. Mr. Hassall came…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.S. Women at Motor SCHOOt
Studying to be instructors in U.S. Army motor maintenance, these officers of the Women's Auxiliary Corps are at work in an ordnance motor, transport school. After textbook study and experience in repairing engines, they qualify to teach other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women Railway Workers Hold Protest Meeting
SYDNEY. Friday. — As a protest against wages rates and conditions, more than 150 women railway cleaners and porters held a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.Z. Veterinary Student To Train in Sydney
At the request of the Taranki Federation of Dairy Factories, and after careful consideration, the New Zealand Dairy Board has decided…
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