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Blue Mountains · Railways, roads & transport
195 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 8 of 10
Why is it that country people have to pay more to visit the city, than the city people are required to pay to visit the country? Such is the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →So far as Katoomba is concerned, it is doubtful whether we can anticipate much benefit from the Main Roads Bill for some considerable time to come. The Bill is now practically in its final stages, and on Wednesday night it was decided that the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I understand there was a meeting, about two months ago, of some business men in Katoomba to discuss methods for advancing the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Fitzpatrick) stated yesterday that the Main Roads Bill, though not I yet quite passed by Parliament, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday evening a motor car containing five men including the driver, collided with another car about a quarter of a mile off the Good Forest Post Office. Two men, Paddy Fitzgerald and Duncan Forbes, were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The first effort in the direction of passing a Main Roads Bill in this State was made in 1912 by Mr. Arthur Griffith, Minister of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When Michael Leary is released from the Penrith Hospital, of which he is now an inmate, he will probably in future…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A letter was received at the Katoomba Council meeting on Tuesday, from the Under Secretary Department of local Government, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In speeding up to pass a heavy Studebaker car on the Caves road on Sunday night, alight Buick bumped into a motor cycle and passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When Stanley W. Headman, a young driver, residing at Black-heath, was brought before the Katoomba Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"I am sorry .... I was under the influence of drink at the time," was what Win. Knights, alias James Mortimer, stated in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Negotiations between the Railway Commissioners and the Council in connection with the proposed overhead bridge, have reached a deadlock. The Council some time ago agreed to contribute £2,000 towards the construction of the bridge, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Katoomba Council has taken up the stand that they will not contribute a penny more than £2,000 towards the cost of the proposed overhead bridge. On the other hand the Railway Commissioners have definitely stated that they will only he responsible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Knowing that "The Echo" stands for law and order, I desire to draw the attention of the residents of Hazebrook to a breanch of both…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The new Motor vehicles Tax Bill, if brought into operation, will provide a Dieasure for rasing a fund for the construction of Great Western Road, as recommended by the Mountains deputation to the state…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A ratepayer of Hawkesbury Road, Colo Shire, wrote to the Shire Council, asking if anything had been done in respect of his application for a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Fitzpatrick, in response to the representations of the deputation from Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Under the provision of the new Motor Vehicles Tax Bill the Government hope to raise about £600,000 per annum. This sum will he handed over to the Main Roads Board. The new tax is going to have a considerable affect on the owners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is probable that at the next meeting of the Katoomba Council to be held on Tuesday next, a letter will be read from the Blackheath Council asking Katoomba's co-operation in an effort to obtain a better train service on the Mountains. When the matter was being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The danger of leaving small boys in charge of stationary motor cars was exemplified on Friday afternoon, when a motor lorry…
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