Motor Trade Booming
More than once I have referred to the spread of the motor-car traffic in this country. It continues to go up by leaps and bounds, and this week we have had evidence in more direct…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
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Bishop's Bridge
The Bishop's Bridge and Sawyer's Gully Progress Committee met at Mr. J. Farreil's on Monday evening for their usual monthly meeting. Mr. G. E. Edwards (president)…
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Mr. Lloyd George, M.P., is introducing a bill to terminate preferential railway rates on imports, as he considers it an anomaly to favour imports instead of exports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Station. The Site Selected. The Town Convenienced
Mr J. Harper, chief traffic manager of the N. S. Wales railways, and Mr Fraser, chief engineer for same, visited Dungog on Monday morning last…
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A carriage-cleaner named William Bartlett, 30 years of age, met with a shocking death in the yards at the Central Railway Station, Sydney, at…
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Mr. R. H. Maund (Goodradigbee) brought forward the question of power which the Minister had under section 119, subsection 2, of the Act, of causing inspection to be made…
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IN heavy black soil, or in country where it is difficult to get stone ma terial for road-making, the experiments which are being made in America…
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The Press Association announces that a new British South Polar Expedition will leave this country in October next, under the command of its organiser,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The North Coast Railway. Dungog Station Site
Mr. J. Harper, Chief Traffic Manager of the New South Wales Railways, and Mr. Fraser, Chief Engineer, visited Dungog on monday for the purpose of making a final…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Railway. Deputation to the Minister. Line to Be Proceeded with Promptly. Sydney
A large and representative deputation, introduced by Mr. McFarlane, waited on the Minister of Works this afternoon to urge that the North Coast Railway should be…
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An old Ormskirk farmer was seeing his son off by an express trai[?] and the engine, which was one of the large and heavy compounds, had some difficulty in…
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Arrangements are well ahead for the railway picnic to be held on the Tamworth Showground on April 6th. The Tamworth Band has been engaged to render a…
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Mr. G. E. Lindeman Cessnock Shire Engineer, submitted the following report to the Shire Council, on Wednesday last, which we print for…
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The engineer's report, read at last meeting of Stroud Shire Council, stated that so far as he had opportunity to inspect them, the reads were in anything but first-class order. On all…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bishops Bridge
The Bishop's bridge and Sawyer's Gully progress Committee met at Mr. J. Farrell's on Monday evening for their usual monthly meeting. Mr. G. E. Edwards president)…
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Fifty years ago to-day, namely, on Monday March 30, 1857, the first section of the Great Northern railway, that from Honeysuckle Point to East Maitland, was officially opened…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Motor Fatality
The Queens Dowager of Portugal and her son Prince Alfonso, while motoring to a theatre in Lisbon, knocked down a woman and her child. The child was killed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Coast Railway. Dungog Station Site
Mr. J. Harper, Chief Traffic Manager the New South Wales Railways, and Fraser, Chief Engineer, visited Dungog on Monday for the purpose of making a final…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The North Coast Railway. Deputation to the Minister. Line to Be Proceeded with Promptly. Sydney
A large and representative deputation, introduced by Mr. McFarlane, waited on the Minister of Works this afternoon to urge that the North Coast Railway should be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Route Controversy
We have received a request from the leaders of a movement, apparently centred in Wingham, having as its object the exclusion of Taree from the route of the North Coast railway…
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