Railway Workers. Annual Conference
At the annual conference of the Railway Workers and General Labourers Association, which was opened in Sydney "yesterday, the President (Mr W. Rosser), in his…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1915
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Reaping the Harvest. Railway Men's View of the War
Reference was made in the report of the executive of the Railway Workers' and General Labourers' Association of New South Wales, presented at the annual conference in the Sydney…
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A tramear, which was proceeding towards Cook's river, left the rails near Frederick-street, St. Peters,and crashed into an electric-current-bearing standard. For…
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The holiday passenger traffic on the Maitland-Stanford-merthyr section of the East Greta railways was light compared with corresponding periods of previous years…
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The "Army Messenger" states that the Russians now hold the strategic railways connecting Buckvina, Western galicia, and Hungary, and are within 100 miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yarrabone Bridge
On December 19 the member for Maitland (Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson) presented a letter at the Public Works Office in Sydney, in which the town clerk, East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Disaster. Poor Men Killed
A Kalgoorlie message states that a stocking resident residing in the [?] at four men, occurred on the I-ans-Australian Railways line on Tuesday afternoon…
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The Director-General of Public Works has written to Lieut-Colonel Nicholson, M.L.A., under date Jan. 1 acknowledging by direction of the Minister of Public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Overbridges
The Secretary to the Chief Railway Commissioner in a letter to Lieut-Colonel Nicholson, M.L.A., dated Sydney, January 5, states that with reference to his endorsement on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor Tax
On Monday the recently passed legislation taxing motor cars, taxis, and motor cycles came into force. The scale of charges under the Act is:—Motor cars, 12 h.p. and under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letter to the Editor. Cessnock-cockle Creek Railway
Sir,—In reply to Mr. P. Ferry's letter in your Saturday's issue may I say I never endorsed Mr. Ferry's contentions as he infers. My exact comment on his dictum…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Underground Railway Fire. Frantic Fighting. Terrible Panic. New York
The whole of the city's underground railways have become disorganised through a fire in a tube railway under Fifty-Third-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Developmental Railways. Victorian Chief Engineer's Travels
After a nine months' trip abroad, Mr. M. B. Kernot, Chief Engineer for Railway Construction in Victoria, has returned home, having visited the Continent of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sleepy State Railways
The utter failure of State-managed railways to make payable traffic for themselves where favourable opportunity offers, and their similar failure to convenience the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Year's Day Traffic. Railway Statistics
Some interesting figures concerning the holiday traffic on the railways have been made available, On New Year's Eye the passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →United States Navy. Aeroplane Service. Washington
The Naval Affairs Committee of the United States Legislative has passed appropriations for a large extension of the aeroplane service, including one million dollars (£200,000) for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Roads. To the Editor
Sir,—Kindly allow me space in your columns for a few words in reply to Mr. Philip Milburn's letter, referring to the "Width…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Four Men Killed. on Transcontinental Railway
An inquest was opened at Kalgoorlie into the deaths of the four men who were fatally injured when some trucks of a train left the rails of the transcontinental railway…
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So far, not more than a dozen owners of motor cycles and motor cars have attended at the police station to pay the new motor tax. One rather amusing incident has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Labourers. Proposed Amalgamation with A.w.u
It was stated at yesterday's session of the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association in sydney that no fewer than 25 branches had submitted…
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