Nazis' Prisoners Building Roads New York, February 21
Captured British soldiers are building a network of modern highways in Poland, where in September, 1939, only dust and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 248
Over the Burma Road Rangoon, February 23
MY job in Burma was to join a convoy of trucks or waggons headed for China, and travel the Burma Road to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Losses. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The report of the Auditor-General shows that for 16 years ended June 30, 1940, the accumulated deficits for the New South Wales railways totalled…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fined £153 for Motor Offences
Reginald Thomas Christie, 30, moulder, for breaches of the motor traffic regulations, was fined a total of £153, and disqualified from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boom for N.s.w. Railways
N.S.W. railway earnings for the second half of 1940 reached a new peak of £4,515,222, due to increased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leave Lost by Train Muddle
Official arrangements for special trains at the weekend deprived Forest Hill (Wagga) Air Force trainees of 36 hours of their monthly four-day leave…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Over the Burme Road
FOR nearly three days 1 stared hot-eyed across the Burma border into China before I could go in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Sweep North-West Water Hearing Homes, Main Roads Blocked
After heavy weekend rain, floods miles wide are sweeping parts of the North-West. More than five and a half inches of rain fell on Saturday and Sunday over a wide area around Werris…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Offences. Man Fined £153 and Disqualified
Reginald Thomas Christie, 30, moulder, at the Central Police Court yesterday, was fined by Mr. Arnold, S.M., sums totalling £153, for a number of breaches of the Motor Traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Tyres and Tubes. Price Increased 4 Per Cent. CANBERRA
The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, said to-day that from March 11 retail traders may advance prices of rubber tyres and tubes for motor vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Vital Railway Cut in Abyssinia London
Emphasising the threat to Harar and the main Addis Ababa-Jibuti railway in Abyssinia, bombers, co-operating with the Forces advancing from Italian Somaliland, cut the railway itself to-day at two points…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train in Peril on Bridge Katherine
Only the strength of the sleeper bolts prevented a perilously - swaying train from crashing over a bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Park-road
When Parramatta National Park Trust asked Parramatta Council on Monday for attention to the surface of Park-road, the engineer (Mr. Horsfall)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Over the Burma Road
I HAD expected that most of the excitement of travelling along the Burma- Yunnan Highway would be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burma Road Has Its Graft Chungking
It was authoritatively announced to-day that Dr. John Karl Baker, formerly of the American Bed Cross, had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Road and Sewer Jobs. Organiser Bowen's Report
Since Convention I have been working along the North Coast. At Kempsey, where they are putting down the sewer, General Constructions…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bettington-road Council Wants Golf Club to Pay £100
After a joint inspection of Bettington-road, Dundas, representatives of Dundas and Baulkham Hills Council agreed to recommend the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motorist Fined
Norman Edward Bush (28) was fined £5 at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday for having driven a motor car in Church-street, Parramatta, while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reduced Petrol Ration. How to Apply for Tickets. Procedure for Motorists. MELBOURNE
The method of distributing petrol ration tickets to private motorists under the Government's revised scheme was announced yesterday by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railways Deficit. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—You have published some criticisms on the heavy deficit shown by the railway balance-sheets during several years past. Your correspondents make no…
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