Late Telegraphic News. Gazette Special Messages. Dorrigo Railway. Sydney
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 2
THE Minister for Works informs Mr. Briner that Surveyor Powell has been instructed to begin the survey of the railway line at Dorrigo end, going towards…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1911 · page 3
The International Express was derailed at Toronto (Canada). One passenger was killed and six seriously injured…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 June 1911 · page 3
By a landslip on the Moe-Walhalla railway. Gippsland (Vic.), the copper mine bridge has been destroyed and the works damaged…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 23 June 1911 · page 2
Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A., has been officially notified that the Minister for Works, who promised a deputation at Woolgoolga in March that he would…
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The Raleigh Sun · Friday 23 June 1911 · page 4
A shocking accident occurred at Muswellbrook station at 11.10 Thursday night. The Brisbane mail had just started to leave when Edward…
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 June 1911 · page 2
Evidence was resumed last Wednesday before the General Labourers (Railway and Tramway Construction and Water Conservation) Board, consisting of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland's Railway Immigrants. First Batch Arrives. Sydney. Sunday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 26 June 1911 · page 3
The first batch of men, numbering 600, brought to Queensland from England to work on the new railways were landed at Brisbane yesterday…
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1911 · page 5
The Great Western train left the main line at midnight and crashed into the buffers of the siding near Stratford-on-Avon. The stoker was terribly scalded…
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1911 · page 8
A few men are working along the Gloucester end of Messrs. Smith and Timms' section of the railway cleaning up the permanent way, in readiness for the…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 2
A serious motor accident occurred eight miles from Gloucesteri when several commercial travellers, Mr. Davies, representing Jas. Inglis and Company;…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 3
On Thursday and Friday the Metropolitan railway carried 1,000,000 passengers; the Metropolitan District Railway 1,400,000 passengers, and…
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 8
The Automobile Club of Australia does not believe motor cars cut up the roads, as a deputation recently told the Minister for Works, and which suggested a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"If I Were Czar." Mr. Griffith's Railway Policy. Sydney, Thursday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 5
In replying to deputations urging the construction of various railways to-day, Mr. A. H. Griffith (Minister for Works) said: "If I were Czar of…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 5
A remarkable railway smash occurred near Cardiff Station, Newcastle, last night. A number of coal trucks jumped the line and were hurled with…
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 2
Mr. [?]. G. Willcocks, contractor for the second section of the North Coast railway, has made an important offer to the Department of Public Works in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cronulla Tram. A Generous Minister
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 4
One thing the Minister for Works did not do in officially opening the Sutherland-Cronulla tramway—he did not claim political credit for it. All that he conceded…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 4
Mr. Briner asked the Secretary for Public Works,--(1.) Is it a fact that the Public Works Department made some arrangement with local residents…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 3
A carload of powder, standing in a tunnel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, Sand Francisco, exploded, derailing an approaching freight train…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 4
Mr. Briner asked the Secretary for Public Works,--(1.) Has any decision been arrived at with regard to constructing that section of the North…
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 5
SYDNEY, Monday.—A motor car accident occurred at Winchelsea, on the Melbourne-Geelong-road, resulting in the death of William Inglis, the chauffeur,…
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