Train Crashes Over Collapsed Bridge 81 Killed Near New York
Northern Star · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 1
NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP).—At least 81 persons were killed and about 500 injured—130 of them being taken to hospital—after a speeding Pennsylvania railroad passenger train was wrecked when a temporary…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 1
Applications are being invited for the position of secretary to the Kyogle branch of the Road Safety Council…
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Northern Star · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 4
Two Lismore school children were injured in road accidents yesterday. Seven year old Arthur Shipway,…
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Northern Star · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 4
CASINO, Sunday.—A coloured man, who overbalanced on the Carrington Park footbridge and toppled into the Richmond River, was…
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Northern Star · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 4
THERE will be general agreement with the comment by a police official that the total of 540 traffic…
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Northern Star · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 1
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—Two Englishmen are setting off to-morrow by motor bike to ride 33,000 miles round the world, via Australia, in one year. They are John Lennox Cook, former Oxford Rugby player, and…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 2
The total number of people killed in N.S.W. during 1950 was 632 compared with 535 in 1949, an increase of 97. Mr. H. Crouch, of the…
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Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 4
CORAKI, Tuesday.—A move to purpose of making representations arrange a public campaign for the to the Government for the…
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Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 10
CASINO, Tuesday.—A railway gatekeeper said in Casino Coroner's Court today that the train involved in the level crossing smash at…
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Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 10
The total number of people killed in New South Wales during 1950 was 632, compared with 535 in 1949—an increase of 97. Mr. G. S. Heather,…
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Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A boy, John Tudor, 5, of Pascoe Vale, fell through a door of the Stoney Point Express between Cheltenham…
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Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Railway freight trucks last year spent 34 per cent. of their time carrying coal at an unprofitable rate, the Transport…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 1
An appeal to parents to persuade their children against playing on roads and streets in the town has been made by the Kyogle branch of…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 3
A move to arrange a public campaign for the purposes of making representations to the Government for. the construction of a bridge…
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Northern Star · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 4
Councillors at yesterday's meeting of Terania Shire Council resolved to carry out an annual inspection of roads throughout the shire. Councillors expressed "grave…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 5
As might be expected, roads, and their bad state of repair, was the subject of most of the correspondence before the Kyogle Shire Council at…
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Northern Star · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 5
CORAKI, Thursday.—The Minister for Public Works (Mr. J. J. Cahill) in a letter to Woodburn Shire Council advised that this…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 1
The heavy damage to The Risk bridge during the recent flood has placed residents living on the northern side of the river in a precarious position. The only possible way of getting…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 3
Leading Glen Innes stores may have to resort to road transport if goods train services to the town are further reduced…
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Northern Star · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 2
There was a good attendance at the monthly meeting of Corndale P. and C. when Mr. T. McMullan occupied the chair…
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