United States. Coal and Railways. WASHINGTON
The Government control of coal mines and the conscription of labour are predicted by the fuel administration. The national shortage is row fifty million tons. The national…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1918
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Railway Collision
Reuter's Amstendam correspondent reports that trains collided at Svorniak. Posen. All the carriages wore destroyed. Eighty wero killod and 80 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aeroplane Losses. (Published in "The Times.")
One hundred and seventy-one German and 61 Allied aeroplanes were brought down on the West front in December…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robbed in a Train
ORANGE, Friday—Thomas O'Keefe, of Kensington, Sydney, was robbed of £120 in notes while travelling in a train from Orange to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram and Motor Collide. (Country Press Telegram) SYDNEY
SYDNEY, Friday—An electric tram car was derailed at Ballarat on Wednesday night as a result of a collision with a motor car. Its two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Killed by Motor Car
Glenworth Grant, 13, living at Underwood street, Paddington, wan knocked down and killed by a motor car in Oxford street, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident at Combaning
On Monday last an accident occurred on the railway line at Combaning on the Temora line, as a result of which three trucks of a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Motor Tax
Local car owners and motor cyclis[?] paid to the consolidated revenue during 1917, 490 in motor taxes, and £166 16/10 in license fees. These were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Railway Traffic at Goulburn
The figures of the holiday railway traffic at Goulburn show an increase for the 12 days as compared with previous year of £236. Details are as follows:—Dec. 21, 219 passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What Is a Public Road? a Landowner's Difficulty
At last-meeting of the Dubbo (Board, Mr. T. M. Scott, a member of the Board, referred to a case recently heard at Moree, which he considered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Making Bicycles Into Motors
A compact power outfit for converting an ordinary bicycle into a motordriven machine, has been invented. This outfit can be readily attached…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Motoring Accident
SYDNEY, Monday.—Alfred McEwan of Petorsham, was driving a motor car along Broadway near Sydney, when he tried to avoid running into a sulky,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Mishap. at Central Railway Station. (Country Press Telegram). SYDNEY
While a locomotive was delivering carrlges to No. 1 Platform at the Central Railway Station, shortly after midnight this morning, the brakes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For Passengers Only. Liquor at Railway Stations
Albury, Tuesday.—A case of considerable importance under the liquor laws was heard in the police court here, when Henry Carter, a cabman, was charged with aiding and abetting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beer at Railway Rooms
At Albury this week, a prosecution under the licensing laws, which the police mogistrate described as the first of its kind in the State, was dealt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fast Motoring. Beating Express Trains
A correspondent writes under date 12th January :—For the first time in the history of motoring in Australia, the same car and tyre…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tour of a Yass Motor Party. An Interesting Journey
On Thursday last a party from Yass set out on a motor tour. There were two cars in charge of Mr. E. O. Moore and Mr. J. Harris respectively, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crookwell Roads
The maintenance of good roads is always a matter of great concern to the residents in country districts. This is necessarily so, as the roads are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fatality
MOE (Vic.) Sunday.— Late last night or early this morning a man, who it is supposed was on his way to the Great Morwell brown coal mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transcontinental Railway
A passenger from Perth speaks well of the trip across Australia. He left Perth at 5 p.m. on Monday and reached Sydney on Saturday…
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