Country Motor Accidents "Too Many By Running Off Road"
Evidence that care-free, motorists are maintaining too high a speed, for conditions on country roads, and that many are coming…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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Accidents Caused By Running Off the Road
Evidence that care-free motorists are maintaining too high a speed for conditions on country roads, and that many are coming…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Included in the New South Wales Railway Department's big works programme, which is now under way, are 165…
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The Queensland Minister for Transport (Mr E. J. Walsh) in a letter received yesterday by Murwillumbah and District Chamber…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—Driver Frederick Hawkes and Fireman Frederick Woods had narrow escapes from drowning when a goods…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Exceptionally heavy rains in the north have caused a derailment and traffic will be held up for…
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NAPLES, Wednesday (AAP).— The death roll in the ammunition train disaster at Torre and Annuziata on Monday night…
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LISMORE, Wednesday: The Casino-Murwillumbah train service, suspended since December 13 owing to the coal strike, will…
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The Casino-Murwillumbah train service, suspended since December 13 owing to the coal strike, will be resumed on Monday, to operate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →C'gatta Council to Approach AWC for Road-Making Plant
At the fortnightly meeting of Coolangatta Town Council on Tuesday night it was decided to contact…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor and Rayon Concerns Likely for Australia
CANBERRA, Wednesday: "A well-known British motor vehicle company and a Canadian rayon textile company are…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday.— A scheme for beautifying the railway property between Station Street and the railway was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Information has been received by the Railway Department that several lines out of commission in the Moree district through floods and washaways have now been repaired sufficiently for…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) said to-day Australia would supply New Zealand with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uniform Railway Gauge Plan Agreed Upon Commonwealth To Bear Half Cost
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Commonwealth, and State Governments will each bear half the cost of standardisation of Australian railway gauges. This was agreed upon at the Premiers' Conference to-day after a battle of tactics between the Premiers and Federal…
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CANBERRA, Thursday: The Premiers' Conference, decided today to hold a conference later between Commonwealth and…
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Motoring organisations express satisfaction at the police decision to resume their full safety campaign, but appeal to the police chiefs not…
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Picture shows the large mobile jet crane used in the construction of the Hawkesbury bridge spans at the base of the cliff face. At right is one of the two 230-ton lifting jacks specially constructed to raise the span from the ledge above the water line to enable pontoons to be floated into the docks…
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On Monday, Australia Day holiday, the railway goods shed will be closed, but the office for parcel and passenger booking will be open as usual…
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In the Legislative Assembly the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Drummond) asked the Premier if it was correct as reported in the…
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