Hawkesbury River Bridge Engineers' Amazing Feat
The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5
In the first official public statement on the traffic bridge being constructed across the Hawkesbury River at Peat's Ferry, Mr. M. Terry, F.R.G.S., who was connected with its construction, showed that Australian engineers had set new…
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The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1
An adjustment of railway [?]bies being made to afford better services to and from the country will include in the main…
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1
A Dubbo District Ambulance car travelling with a patient from Narromine, was forced to run completely off the road on Thursday evening, to…
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The Western Herald · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3
Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of the State showed a substantial increase for the three months ended September…
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The Western Herald · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 5
Following an incident in which e motorists with a broken leg spent all night in a small open car, his cries for help being ignored by a…
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 1
Serious injury was suffered by a child at the Dubbo railway station on Thursday night, when a water bottle, which was being placed in the rack by a porter fell and struck the child while she was asleep on the carriage seat…
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 1
SYDNEY. Friday.—During the past 14 months 190 persons were injured, several of them fatally, whilst on railway premises or in trains, from causes…
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 2
George Bushell (31) railway employee, of Samuels street, North Dubbo received severe burns to his right foot on Sunday while he was…
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Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 3
At Gilgandra Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Brooks, P.M., Alfred Everson, a Gilgandra road worker, was committed for trial at the Dubbo Quarter. Sessions on March 6 on a charge of breaking and…
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Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 1
[?] U.S. [?] The train [?] placed at [?]…
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Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 7
While build[?] (In background) [?] a read through the tangled jungle growths, U.S. army build a bridge ever a stream in the swamp of Leyte. The week of the [?] contributed highly to the rapid advance of U.S. and [?] over the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Motorists Do Own Repairs
The Western Herald · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 5
Owing to the difficulty of securing garage service, many motorists are now doing their own simple car repair jobs, particularly…
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The Wellington Times · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 1
A general meeting of tramway employees decided yesterday by a 2 to 1 majority not to operate trams or…
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The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 9
At the last meeting of Cobbora Shire, Overseas Hannon detailed works completed and in progress throughout the…
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Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 3
Cr T. G. Hitchen brought before last meeting of the Gilgandra Shire Council the matter of improving the train…
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 5
The Road Safety Council of New South Wales has issued the following report, concerning road accidents during the recent holidays:…
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Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 2
Sgt. Beaton, officer in charge of the Gilgandra Police District, has asked that we issue a warning to motorist in respect to…
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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 1
LONDON, Thursday. — The bombing of Germany's railways resulted in a delay in the arrival of the first allied prisoners of war, who were being…
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The Western Herald · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 5
"Motorists should adopt as their New Year resolution: 'I will drive more carefully and safely' ", says the general secretary of the N.R.M…
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The Western Herald · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 5
Commenting on the latent list of controlled automotive spare parts just released, the chief engineer of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. J. Fielder)…
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