Controlling Motor Vehicles
The matter of controlling the speed of motor vehicles through the towns of the Cessnock Shire, which was mentioned at last meeting of the council, would appear to be…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
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Motor Car Capsizes. Priests Narrow Escape
Father Van Roil, parish priest at Bellingen narrow escape of being killed in a motor car accident. He, in company with Mr. Hadley, examiner of the Royal Academy of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →[?]lesed Frard Railway Workers' Money. Sydney
David Eldridge was charged at the Sydney Police Court with embezzling £3/10/ belonging to the Railway Workers anil General Labourers' Association while…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →No Money. Mr. Cann and the Railways
On Monday a deputation from the Blacksmiths' Society of Australasia waited on the State Treasurer, Mr. Cann, to obtain a definite statement regarding the dismissal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Time-keeper. Alleged Forgery. Newcastle
At the Police Court, to-day. William Fox, railway time-keeper, was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of forging pay-dockets, involving the sum…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railways. Surplus or Deficit?
An interesting feature of the annual report of the Chief Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Johnson) is the fact that a surplus of £154,448 is claimed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Popular Railway Platforms
Owing to the continual overcrowding of the Toowoomba and Warwick railway platforms, with people other than bona fide travellers, it has been decided to raise the price…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Railway Line. Shorter Route to Sydney
Considerable interest is being taken by settlers in the northern part of the State in a proposal to construct a railway that would connect the Sydney Newcastle line with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Extension. Barraba to Bingara
Mr. R. Schloesser, metal buyer, representing the Gulf Creek copper mine, gave evidence before the Public Works Committee Sydney in support of the expeditious construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Unrest. Conciliation Condemned. London. Aug. 18
Mass meetings of railwaymen were held at Hyde Park, Doncaster, York, Liverpool and Birmingham in celebration of the 1911 Strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Motor Accident. Driver's Neck Broken. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
A motor car with a driver and four passengers was proceeding at a fast pace through the Domain this afternoon, when something aparently went wrong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Men's Demands. (By Cable.) London
A huge demonstration of railwaymen in Hyde Park on the second anniversary of the strike, resolved to urge the executive to present an ultimatum for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letter to the Editor. Bad Roads
Sir,—Would you Kindly allow me space in your columns to urge upon the Cessnock Shire councillors the great necessity of visiting the roads in their separate ridings,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Touring Car
A motor touring cur to seat five persons comfortably is on hire by Messrs. S. Crisp and Co., a$ the Sportsman's Arms Hotel. Tours may be arranged to any towns of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Costly Railway. Peking, Aug. 20
The German firm of Carlowitz and Co., through its Hongkon manager, who is a director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, has offered the Governor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. London, "Wednesday. Railway Union
Mr. Williams, the Secretary of the Railway Union, denies that the union is about to take a plebiscite regarding conciliation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Mishap
A railway collision near Maryborough Queensland, this morning, resulted in an engine and three trucks being derailed. No one was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WADE v. GRIFFITH. The North Coast Railway
The disagreement between the leader of the Opposition and the Minister for Works regarding the cost of the day labor system, as applied to the North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Crossing. Charge Against a Politician
Arthur Gardiner, M.L.A., appeared at the Summons Court. Newcastle, on Monday, to answer a charge of using the railway crossing at Market-street, where…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Accident. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
A motor car was going down an incline near Medlow, when a tyre blew cut. The car "skidded," and ran into a sand patch…
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