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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1918

1,385 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 15 of 70

New Railway Scheme. with Uniform Gauge

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 1

The State Government has adopted a proposal to extend the Condobolin-Broken Hill railway to the South Australian border. This is on condition that the Federal Government…

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British Air Work. Enemy Aerodrome and Docks Bombed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 19

An Admiralty despatch says:— "Our aircraft on Monday night dropped many tons of bombs, with good results, on the Costliker…

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Mudgee Show. Train Arrangements

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 24

The secretary to the Mudgee Agricultural Society (Mr. E. J. Hannan) has received the following communication from the Railway…

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Dunedoo Show—Special Train Arrangements

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 15

Arrangements have been made to run a special train from Mudgee to Dunedoo ob Wednesday, March 13, the day of the Dunedoo Show. The…

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Motor Car Burnt Fire on Blayney Road. Mr. Z. Kirk's Humber Alight

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 2

While he was bringing his 16-24 h.p. Humber from Young to Bathurst carly on Tuesday morning, Mr. Z. Kirk, motor lorry driver, employed…

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Russia's Awakening. Germany Would Strangle the Revolution. Barring the Roads to Petrograd

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 19

A Russian official message says that the German Government formally refuses to sign an armistice, because it desires not peace, but…

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Motorists Visiting Sydney Show

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 15

An invitation is extended to all motorists (vide J. F. Leake and Co.'s special advertisement in this issue) to witness a demonstration…

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Merriwa Page. General News. Railway Siding

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 8

A railway siding is in course of erection and construction at the foot of Wapinguy Hill, about five miles from town…

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Motoring Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 22

A motor lorry bolted down the hill at Drumnvoyne yesterday afternoon crashed through, a blacksmith's shop. Two men who…

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Motor Smash Death of Mr. Rust. Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 2

Mr. Rust, whose skull was fractured in the sensational motor smash in which Miss Ivy Allen was killed in William-street on Tuesday week, died…

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Berlin to Be Bombed. Successful Giant Aeroplane

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 6

The story of the flight of a big British aeroplane from London to Constantinople, which, has now been made publicity permission of the censor, shows how near is the date…

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John Bridge & Co.s Report

Molong Argus · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 1

John Bridge it Co, Ltd., report ordee data 23rd Feb, 1918:— Wool.—A oomplete change seems to bave been broagbt about in rfapeot to…

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Road-making Plant Trials in Sydney

Leader · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 8

The state of the streets in the municipality, in a general sense, and the [?] economically, of making streets where necessary, and of…

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The Raider Wolf's Doings in Pacific Aeroplane As Scout. Harsh Treatment of Prisoners. London, Thursday Night

The Bathurst Times · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 2

The Australian Press Association representative has secured an interview with passengers from the steamer lgotz Mendi, one the vessels…

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Accident at Railway Crossing

Leader · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon, when Mrs. Gander. pf Orange East, was going over the Summer street railway c[?]oss ing, with her child in a go-curt, a…

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Motorists Visiting Sydney Show

Leader · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 8

An invitation is oxtended to all motorists (vide J. F. Leake and Co's. special advertisement in this issue), to witness a demonstration of…

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City Motor Smash Story of an Umbrella. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 4

Gladys Lyons, 22, was charged at the Central Police Court with the theft of an umbrella, value £1, belonging to Alice Fenton, musician, of…

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John Bridge & Co's. Market

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1918 · page 18

John Bridge and Co., Limited, report under date 23rd February: Wool. — A complete change seems to have been brought about…

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Drunk in Railway Carriage

The Bathurst Times · Saturday 2 March 1918 · page 2

Robert Miller (on ball) a stranger, pleaded guilty at the police court this morning, before Mr. C. Jennings, S. M., to being in a state of intoxication in…

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Fear the Future Railway Workers and Card System. Evidence Before Royal Commission. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Saturday 2 March 1918 · page 3

Judge Curlewis, the Royal Commissioner inquiring in to the effects of the job and time-card system in the railway and tramway workshops…

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