Train Blamed for Fires Canberra Theory
CANBERRA, Friday.—Bushfire control officials in Canberra said to-day that 11 fires had broken out between Queanbeyan and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
4,651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 233
War Prisoner's Story II—Hell Train of Anzacs
FIFTEEN hundred Australians and New Zealanders began their journey frbm Salonika to Germany on June 24, 1941…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Road to Rome Some Legends and Landmarks
THE country in which the British and American troops of the Fifth Army have so unexpectedly appeared behind…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales Motor Vessel. Sailed Sydney. Blue Star Line, agents
S Shippers, 19 cs casings, 22 bls rabbit skins, 250 cs meat extract, 9 bls basils, 38 bls sole leather, 75 cs leather, 18 bls rabbit skins, 117 bls…
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NEWCASTLE, Saturday. — The three occupants of a motor-car just managed to jump clear from the vehicle as a Newcastle-bound…
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LONDON, Sat.--When an ammunition dump blew up in a railway yard in northern England yesterday at least 10 people were killed and 60…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australians two miles from road to Bogadjim base
AUSTRALIAN troops have made important gains on two fronts in New Guinea. In a two-way advance on the Jap base of Bogadjim, one Australian force is only two miles from the end of the main motor road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Love Went Cold So Trammie Used Pepper
A LOT of coves hit the booze when their heart's desire turns on the icy stare. Tram conductor Herbert Charles Miles of 111 Arundel Street, Forest Lodge, is a man of different ideas. When his love went off the rails, he hied himself from his tram,…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →New tram, bus stoppage depends on judge, union
FURTHER one-day. hold-up of Sydney bus and tram traffic on Wednesday will depend upon decisions by Judge Drake-Brockman tomorrow, and mass meetings of employees tomorrow night and on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →11 Hours in Catalina on 1 Motor
HIT by anti-aircraft fire over Jap-held Kavieng (New Ireland), an RAAF Catalina flying boat flew…
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PARDON me if I discuss trams again this week, but transport--that is, land transport--is in the air just…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The first rock on the Tokio road A Jap got 2oz. of meat a month Red drives menaced, the U-boats' oil The price they put on a traitor Dead were buried in Berlin's streets
Across the central and western Pacific, north of the Equator, sweeps a great arc of 1400 islands. Japan's home front is wearing more patches, eating thinner gruel. Fresh evidence reaching London As he watched the Russians driving into Estonia and along the shortest path to Berlin this week, Hitler's Baltic worries Yugoslav Quisling Neditch plastered Yugoslavia with posters offering £5000 reward for Partisan leader Broz-Tito, dead or What the huge bombs had begun, the late January gales completed, until the heart of Germany was an unquenchable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diesel Train Protest
CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Bushfire Council has protested to the New South Wales authorities about the exhaust on the Diesel train between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Indians Astride Vital Road
ARAKAN FRONT, Feb. 4 (delayed).—Indian troops of the 14th Army have cut the vital Maungdaw-Buthidaung road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coaches Take Fire on Express Train
LONDON, Monday.--Two coaches on the Manchester-Liverpool express from London were destroyed by fire between Leighton-Buzzard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coaches Take Fire on Express Train
LONDON, Monday.--Two coaches on the Manchester-Liverpool express from London were destroyed by fire between Leighton-Buzzard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Boats New Permits Not Needed
The Deputy Director of Navigation, Captain N. G. Roskruge, has explained that small boat owners need not obtain new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales Motor Vessel. Sailed Sydney. Blue Star Line, agents
S Shippers, 19 cs casings, 22 bls rabbit skins, 250 cs meat extract, 9 bls basils, 38 bls sole leather, 75 leather, 18 bls rabbit skins, 117 bls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bus and Tram Men to Meet To-night
Bus and tram workers will meet in the Australian Hall to-night and tomorrow morning to hear a report of the proceeding before Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judge Warns Tram-men Eligible for Call-up New Award: Employees to Meet
Announcing some improved conditions for tram and bus employees. Judge Drake-Brockman, in the Arbitration Court today, pointed out that 2000 of the 6000 employees who took part in the stop-work meeting last Wednesday…
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