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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1944

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Motorist Discharged on Bond

Northern Star · Tuesday 7 March 1944 · page 4

Charged with driving a motor utility truck in Woodlark Street on February 22 while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, James…

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Sledge "Train" Improvised

Northern Star · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—The British United Press correspondent in Moscow says the Russians…

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Woodburn Shire to Concentrate On Rural By-Roads

Northern Star · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 2

At Wednesday's meeting of Woodburn Shire Council it was decided to divert plant and man-power to work on by-roads for a period of approximately six weeks, to improve the serios…

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U.s. Nurses Train in Far East

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 3

American nurses, training for duty on the Allied front in Burma, relax around a campfire during a night hike through jungle country on the India-Burma border. The nurses are instructed in special techniques for combating jungle hazards and…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 2

When a motor cycle crashed into the fence of a private residence at Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon, the rider, Neville William…

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Kyogle Brother and Sister in Near Drowning Tragedy Brave Rescue By Railway Fireman

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 1

But for the prompt action of a railway fireman, two young Kyogle residents may have lost their lives in the Richmond River, near the Geneva bridge, late on Sunday afternoon…

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Fire Destroys 60 Railway Sleepers

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 March 1944 · page 4

CASINO, Monday.—Long grass in the streets and allotments is presenting all increasing source of danger by fire. Casino Fire…

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Three Stages In Vast Plan To Standardise Aust. Railway Gauges

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Full Cabinet has endorsed a plan submitted by the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) for the standardisation of Australian railway gauges…

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Cut in Japanese Train Travel

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Tokio Radio announced that Japan's train transportation system has been placed on drastic rationing,…

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Battered Body Under Bridge At N. Lismore

Northern Star · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 4

With his head battered, the body of Richard Gwynne, 67, an old age pensioner, of Terania Street, North Lismore, was found under the Robert White Bridge, North Lismore, yesterday. A theory that…

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Raid on Railway Targets in Rome

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: The Exchange Telegraph Company quotes a message from Allied headquarters which says: Three waves of…

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Body Found Blood on Road Near Bridge

Northern Star · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 4

Bloodstains on and near the road about 70 yards from the South Lismore-side of Robert White Bridge were the only…

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Editorial Train Them Into Good Citizenship

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 4

In a quiet laneway off Geneva Street on Thursday night of last week, some fifty schoolboys, youths and men of Kyogle met in humble surroundings. When I arrived on the scene, at approximately 7.45, two boys, round…

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Australians Take Key Road Terminal In N.G.

Northern Star · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 5

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Thursday.—Australian troops in New Guinea have captured Daumoina, the terminal of the motor road leading from Rogadjim and Madang. They are…

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East-west Railway

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 March 1944 · page 4

On March 18, Cr. O. V. Small was reported to have said at a meeting of the Tomki Shire Council, when discussing the…

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Roads Versus Railways

Northern Star · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

Sir,—Much press space has been taken up of lata in an attempt to show the virtues of private and vested interests. Yet lack of…

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Patriotic Bridge Club

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 1

The highest score for bridge was held by Mrs B. H. Simpson and 500 by Mrs A. J. Campbell. The hostesses were Mesdames W…

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Road Men Controversy

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

Replying to the latest letter written to the Tweed Daily Forum by the secretary of Murwillumbah branch of the Federated Shire…

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Early Resumption of Motor Industry Production?

Northern Star · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Evidence was accumulating that the resumption of manufacture in the motor industry before the end of…

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Local and General Bridge Tenders

Tweed Daily · Saturday 25 March 1944 · page 2

Tenders for the construction of a bridge for the Mo[?]all and Crabbe's Greek Swamp Drainage Union are invited by advertisement…

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