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Railways, roads & transport, 1915

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 62

Dubbo-young Motor Car Test

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 4

The Alay of high cost in motor car travelling has past, judged by the Dubbo-Young run by the famous Humberette, 2-seater onr (costing £190), for…

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Muswellbrook to Merriwa Railway

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2

Mr Macartney Abbott, M.L.A., has been officially informod that owing to the limited amount of money available there is not the slightest ctiance of the…

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Maitland Tramway Extension

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 4

At the conclusion of the general business at the annual meeting of the Benevolent Society last evening, Mr. H. Kerr, one of the trustees, reported that they and been…

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Suspicious Motor Launch

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 5

A motor launch that was skirting Goat island, opposite Balmain, in a suspicious manner early this morning, was fired on by the military, but the occupants did not heed…

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Reduced Railway Services. Fall in Revenue

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 2

To meet a serious falling off in the railway traffic of the state, due to drought and the war principally, it has been found necessary to reduce the expenditure of the…

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Sensational Story. Three Men Steal Motor

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 2

A sensational story was told to the Sydney police by a taxi-driver, Thomas Lang, on Tuesday afternoon. He stated he was engaged by three men to take…

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The Very Latest Challenged From Goat Island. Motor Launch Fired At. (By Telegraph.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Wednesday,.—A motor launch skirting Goat Island early this morning and acting in a suspicious mauner was challenged by the military…

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Sydney to Melbourne. Projected Aeroplane Flight

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 6

Captain Petrie, of the Commonwealth Aviation Corps, M. Marduel, the jovial Frenchman, whose brief pupilage under M. Guillaux has already made him prominent in…

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Main Creek Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 10

Mr Gam, in a letter to the Wallarobba Shire Council, stated that the Main Creek road was in such a deplorable condition that the bakers…

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British Raid Feared, in Germany. Precautionary Measures. German Railways. the Eastern Front. Russian Progress. the Turks at Tabriz. Austrian Policy. Berchtold's Advice. Prussian Losses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 5

Hamburg, Lubeck, and Cuxhaven have been declared in a state of siege. No reason is assigned, but it is supposed to be a precautionary measure against a possible British…

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Aeroplane Drought Down

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 5

One of the enemy's aeroplanes was brought down at the junction of the Bzura and Vistula. The pilot and an officer accompanying him were captured…

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Good Roads Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

The Millions Club lists awakened a lively interest in this in many parts of the State, but what about this district? The motor man with the light…

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United States Navy. Aeroplane Service. Washington

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 12

The Naval Affairs Committee of the United States Legislature has passed appropriations for a large extension of the aeroplane service, including one million dollars (£200,000) for…

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Closing of a Boundary Road

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

Notification is gazetted of the closing of the unnecessary road separating portion. 125 from portions 126, 128, and 127 parish of Glendon…

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War in the Air. Destruction of a German Aeroplane Park. French Dragoons' Exploit. Paris, Nov. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 2

Some details, of the aerial fighting which took place on Nov. 18 are given in the following semi-official note: "On the 18th inst., about half-past six…

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Northern Railway Service

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 2

The "Armidale Express" says:—We have it on excellent authority that, consequent on the greatly lessened traffic caused by the influence of…

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Motor Fatality. Several Persons Also Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 2

Just after the Metropolitan fire Brigade had finished its usual weekly demonstration, in Victoria Parade, Melbourne, a serious accident occurred, one person being killed and…

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Railway Guard Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

Geroge Quinn, a railway guard, was killed in a shockingly sudden manner on the railway line at Hawkesbury, yesterday afternoon, by the North-western mail train…

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Railway Workers' Conference. Timber-getters' Aims

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 7

Important resolutions were curried at Friday's session of the annual conference of the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association of New South Wales, presided over…

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Four Men Killed. on Transcontinental Railway

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 6

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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