Repatriation to Train Own Nurses
The Repatriation Department is about to embark upon a completely new nursing policy by undertaking the training of its own nurse in the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Basic Wage Increase "Will Cost Someone a Road"
"Someone will have to do without their road this year," remarked Cr. Killen last week's meeting of the Cartathool Shire Council when the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Loads of Petrol Arrive by Road Oil Companies Prepare
LONG distance motor lorries, fully loaded up with petrol drums all silver frosted and flashing in the bright summer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Drove Tram While Drunk" a Month's Gaol
Alan Hugh Williams, 39, tram driver, was yesterday sentenced to a month's gaol for having been found drunk while employed as a tram driver. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Interim Railway Award
MELBOURNE, Monday: An interim award covering employees of the Australian Railways Union in New South Wales, Victoria, South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drove Tram While Drunk; Month's Gaol
SYDNEY, Monday: Alan Hugh Williams, 39, tram driver, was to-day sentenced to one month's gaol at Central Police Court for having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Koreans Train For Red Army"
WASHINGTON, Tuesday: Dr. Syngman Lhee, leader of the South Korea Democratic League, to-day said that Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →178 Dead in Tokyo Train Crash
TOKYO, Tuesday: At least three packed carriages of a passenger train toppled down a canyon 25 miles west of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Football "No Train, No Play," Says Narvo
Herb. Narvo, coach of St. George last season, arrived in Cootamundra yesterday. Narvo will coach the Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Crashes Into Albury Office
ALBURY, Tuesday: A motor cyclist crashed into a side wall of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd., office to-day when he failed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motors and Motoring Pneumatic Tyre Was British Triumph Caused Revolution in Motoring History
Few people, even among motorists and cyclists, are acquainted with the early developments which eventually led to the pneumatic tyres of to-day. Away back in 1888, when J. B. Dunlop, who died in 1921, evolved a pneumatic tyre for his son's tricycle, it took the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Vehicle Registrations Show Increase
Australia had 100,133 more automobiles registered at the end of 1946 than were in service at December 31, 1945. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Says Councils Unable to Improve Roads
SYDNEY, Wednesday: There is no possibility of councils in New South Wales being able to improve their roads, said the president of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence Roads and Wool (To The Editor)
Sir,--Much is said from time to time these days on the mutter of tourist trade. The writer wishes to draw attention of Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road to Kosciusko Another Route Suggested
A proposal for a road to Kosciusko via Black Jack Mountain and Bogong Plain, in preference to the recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Willie Ploma Bridge Damaged When Truck Crashes Into Railing
Crashing into the side of the Willie Ploma Bridge at South Gundagai last Wednesday morning, a transport bounded off into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →80 Passengers at Port Pirie Stranded By Railway Strike
ADELAIDE, Thursday: Eighty Perth-bound passengers are stranded at Port Pirie as a result of a strike in the Commonwealth Railways, affecting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Griffith Man Falls From Motor Train
[?] Donnelly Wade Shire elect[?] staff, fell the motor train [?] Yarmawl siding whilst it was [?] the way to Griffith on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coolamon - Wagga Road Criticism "Exaggerated"
The shire cleric of the Mitchell Shire Council (Mr. Raines) said yesterday that Coolamon Shire councillors exaggerated when they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bad Roads in Tumut Shire Councillors Want Some Action Taken Engineer Taken To Task
At Monday's meeting of the Tumut Shire Council a letter was read from the Tumut Graziers' Association drawing…
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