More Injured In Road Accidents Than In Battle
LONDON, Friday (AAP). —Over 200,000 more people have been Killed or injured in road…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
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Patriotic Bridge Club
Mrs B. H. Simpson had the highest score for bridge at Saturday's play and Mrs R. Claydon the 500. The hostesses were Mesdames C. G…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Unable to obtain accommodation a number of holiday-makers after spending last night in the Katoomba…
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The new decking of Murwillumbah bridge will be appropriately tarred and sanded at the expense of the Department of Main Roads,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: When two trams carrying City-bound workers collided at an intersection this morning 12 people were…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When two trams carrying city-bound workers collided at an intersection at Coogee this morning 12 people were injured,…
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New York reports that Lieutenant'- General Alexander Archer Vandergriet Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, revealed that "sizable…
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BRISBANE, Friday: Three aircraft workers were killed and 14 others injured in a collision between an American army truck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star Monday. April 17, 1944 Road To China
EEN at a risk of charges that the lessons from over-obtimistic communiques in the first Malayan and Burma…
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BALLINA, Sunday.—Ballina Municipal Council decided to contribute £5 5s towards the cost of carrying on the work of the…
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At a meeting of the Lismore Municipal Council last night a sub-committee was appointed to investigate the needs and requirements of an "A" class aerodrome for Lismore and obtain…
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When a utility truck in which he was a passenger hit a stationary lorry in Riverview Street, Murwillumbah, about 6 o'clock last…
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CASINO, Monday.—In a letter from the N.S.W. Ambulance Transport Service Board to the Casino Board, it was stated that…
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ALSTON VILLE, Tuesday.— A works programme to cost about £2004 for the crushing of 911 cubic yards of metal for selected works…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: The inward-bound Southport train and an Allied four- ton truck collided at Boundary Road level crossing at…
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Mr. V. E. Brunner (stationmaster) advises that the goodshed will be closed on Tuesday next, but the perishable traffic will be received and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—On its way from Sydney to India the Union Steamship Company's motor ship "Hauraki" of 7113 tons, which…
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The work of putting a new decking on Murwillumbah bridge was completed yesterday afternoon by a Public Works…
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With the Ledo Road, new supply highway from India to China, still under construction, a U.S. built caterpillar tractor goes to the rescue of the lead truck of a supply convoy making its way through a low spot on the road. U.S. Army Engineers terminated work on…
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A motor truck equipped with a gas producer caught alight in front of The Tweed Daily premises, Murwillumbah, about 5.15 o'clock…
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