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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

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Is a State-wide Railway Strike Really Justified?

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1945 · page 2

On Sunday night the secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. J. A. Ferguson) said he expected that his recommendations for a State-wide…

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Railway Unions Endorse A.R.U. Action

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A conference of railway unions, representing a, majority of the 53,000 railway workers involved in the N.S.W. dispute, today…

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Railway Strike Threat Latest Position N.U.R. May Oppose Hold-up

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: In New South Wales alone nearly 30,000 railway employees may be involved in a general strike before next…

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Germans Moving From Italy to Protect Vienna Roads in North Clogged

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): The British United Press correspondent at Zurich says that columns of German troops, forced to march from Northern…

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Railway Strike Possibility Now Believed Remote

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A spokesman for the N.S.W. Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said to-night that prospects of a…

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Motor Cruisers and Launches to Be Disposed of

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: The forthcoming sale of a fleet of small craft which played its part when the Japanese threatened to invade Australia is…

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Road Transport Workers to Discuss State-wide Strike Proposal

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Proposals for a State-wide strike of road transport workers in protest against award delays resulting…

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Car Accident on Gilmore Road

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 5

When returning to Batlow from Tumut in a sedan, Mr. E. W. Whybrow, together with Mr. and Mrs. Evans and six children, had a narrow escape from…

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6000 Planes! From Seven Commands Roads, Rails, and Canals Paralysed

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: Over 6000 Allied planes, from seven commands, yesterday struck against hundreds of targets in the German…

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Safe Riders for Safe Bikes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 4

Young pedal cyclists are again pushing their way into the road casualty in ways that are easily avoidable, For instance, in the last three weeks one boy…

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Ash Bridge News Farewell Social to Mr. and Mrs. W. Baker and Family and to Mr. and Mrs. R [?] and Family (From our Correspondent)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 4

It was with very great regret that the news was received by Ash bridge arid Dullah. that Mr, and Mrs. W. Baker aid Family, of Dultah, were leaving…

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Junee Railway Institute

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 2

A special meeting of members ot the Junee and Railway Institute, presided over by the president (Mr. E. A. Rumble), was…

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Railway Commissioners to Visit Tumut On March 12 Deputation From Shire Council

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners will be visiting Tumut on March 12, and it was decided at Wednesday's Shire meeting that a…

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The Motor World Railway Level Crossings—

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 8

The NRMA is disappointed at the continued silence of the authorities regarding the improvement of conditions at NSW railway level [?]…

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Airman Killed Motor Collision at Yarrawonga

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 February 1945 · page 3

Cpl. Douglas Raymond Nelson (R.A.A.F.), aged 21 years, singer, of Broadmeadows (N.S.W.), was killed instantly on Saturday…

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Wet Weather Motoring

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1945 · page 3

Wet weather does more than find the leaks in the roofs of houses. It influences to a serious extent the types of road accidents that occur…

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Current Comment— Hard Road

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 2

"On to Tokyo" is a good slogan and as General MacArthur said when -Manilla fell, though we are well on the way, Japan itself re…

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Woman Killed Husband Critically Injured Couple Jump in Front of Train

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A young woman was killed and her husband critically injured when they fell in front of an electric train at Hurstville…

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Motor Transport in England

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 4

The huge extent to which motor transport is enabling Great Britain to carry on under war conditions is not generally recognised. nor how…

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The Latest (Second Edition) German Defences Being Cut to Pieces On Danzig-Stettin Coastal Railway

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).—Marshal Rokossovsky's tanks and mobile infantry, supported by cavalry, are cutting to pieces the German defences on the coastal railway joining Danzig and Stettin, states the American Associated Press correspondent in…

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