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Railways, roads & transport, 1913

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The Main Roads Bill. Minister's Explanation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 5

Mr. Arthur Griffith, State Minister or Works, at the Shires Conference in Sydney, referred to the fate of the Main Roads Bill when it was before Parliament. So many…

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Bullet Whizzes Through Train. Fright of Passengers Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 5

While a train was travelling between Oatley and the Central railway station yesterday a bullet whizzes through one of the carriages, passing between the heads of several…

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Main Roads Bill Minister and Shires. Mr Griffith Faces the Conference

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 6

The Minister for Works faced the Shires' Conference on Wednesday. There bad been conflict between himself and the executive over the Main Roads…

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Railway Strike

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 2

The sheeters, ropers, welgh-brighe clerks at Sydney produce sheds, Redfern joined the Darling Harbour railway strikers this morning, with the…

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Sydney Railway Strike. More Men Out a Serious Outlook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 5

The strike of Darling Harbour railway men continues. All efforts at settlement yesterday failed. A continuance of the strike will paralyse industry in many…

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The Railway Struck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 6

Owing to the strike at Darling Harbour. the local railway authorities notify that the only goods that they can receive for that place are cheese, milk. butter, eggs and…

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Labour Landowners. Transcontinental Railway

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 14

Speaking at a Liberal League social at Fremantle, Mr. W. N. Hedges, M.P., produced a play showing a section of the route of the trac[?] Australian railway. "These," he said swee[?]…

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Motor Collision in Sydney. Two Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 3

A collision between a cab and a motor car, resulting in two persons being injured and the vehicles being seriously damaged, occurred in New South Head-road at a late hour…

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Railway Strike in Sydney. 400 Men Out

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 5

An entire dislocation of the Darling Harbour trade took place Wednesday afternoon, at about 2 o'clock. The railway porters and other workers there, to the number of close…

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Railway Strike. Goods Traffic Held Up

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 4

Discontent, which has for some time existed among the men employed as goods porters at the Darling Harbour railway yards, suddenly assumed an…

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.The Maitland Coalmines. Railway Fares and Freights

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 April 1913 · page 5

The superintendent of the East Greld Company's railways, Mr. R. St. Vincent Heyes, has notified the secretary of the Kurri District Chamber of Comerce, Mr…

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The Railway Strike. Trouble Continues. Offer of a Royal Commission

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 April 1913 · page 5

The railway porters' strike has extended in Sydney. On Saturday night the shunting staff of the Clyde yards refused to sign on. The staff which should have followed at…

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The Railway Strike. Government Terms Rejected. Trouble Extends

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 5

All hopes of an early settlement of the railway strike passed away last night when the mass meeting of men rejected the Government's proposals…

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St. Gothard Railway Line. [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 2

The National Council [?] Gathard, Convention extending to whole of the Swiss Federal system the favoured treatment hitherto accorded…

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Railway Fatalities. Vienna

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 5

injured owin to a collision be[?] a passenger and a goods train at Ogn…

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Alleged Swindle. Plant for Printing Tram Tickets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 4

After nearly five months of Patient investigating and following of clues, Plain clothes Constable Kelly, attached to No.1 Station, and Sergent Allen, of No. 2…

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Railway Strike

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 2

On Friday afternoon another step was taken by those involved [?] the Railway strike, when [?] shunters at Darling Har[?]…

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The Railway Strike. Still Unsettled. Passenger Traffic Unaffected

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 2

Up till time of writing, the strike of railway porters at Darling Harbor, and also of the shunters at Darling Harbor, the Clyde, and Alexandria, who came…

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Indian Railways. 12 Miles a Fenny

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 3

Mr James Adam, who is in the Indian State Railways Department, and is located at Lucknow, where he is the saperintending engineer, arrived in…

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Railway Strike Position More Serious. Clyde Shunters Go Out

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 April 1913 · page 4

The Darling Island railway strike, for the settlement of which Mr Carmichaei, the Minister for Labor and Industry, held oat hopes on Friday night, is…

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