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Railways, roads & transport, 1915

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 62

A Motor Fatality. Woman Killed While Walking with Husband

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 September 1915 · page 3

On Saturday evening, on the Point Nepean Road at Mordialloc, Victoria, Mrs Mary Catherine Hansen was killed instantly by a motor car. According to…

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Local News. Another Railway Man for Service

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 September 1915 · page 2

Mr J. Harborne, of Bulga, informs us that his son Harry, well-known in the railway service, is now in camp at Broadmeadows, near Newcastle. Harry…

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Recruiting Boom in Sydney. 1600 Leave for Camp. Flag for the Tramway Unit. Great Display of Enthusiasm

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 September 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—Fourteen hundred men left Victoria Barracks to-day for various camps, a record to date, with an additional 200 men who were…

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The State Budget. Delivered Before End of December. Super Tax and Motor Tax

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 September 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—Mr Holman states that he hopes to deliver his Budget speech before the end of December, it is expocted that he will then announce…

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Maitland District Motor Cycle Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1915 · page 4

A committee meeting of the above club was held on Tuesday night, 7th instant, at the Angel Inn, with a good muster of committeemen. The now captain (W…

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Railway Construction. Cost of Works

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1915 · page 7

Mr. J. Davis, State Director-General of Public Works, has submitted to Mr. Cann, the Minister, a cost summary for the financial year ended 30th June last, dealing…

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Railway and Tramway Men

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 4

A meeting of railway and tramway men will be held in the School of Arts, West Maitland, to-morrow (Friday) evening, When Mr. C. Thompson, general secretary of the…

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Railwaymen's Agitation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 5

Since the success of the South Wales miners, the extreme elements in the National Union of Railwaymen is agitating for the determination of the truce with the…

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Railway Employees' Association

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 2

Mr Claude Thompson, general secretary of the Amalgamated Railway and Tram-way Service Association, who is at present on an extended tour of the…

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Runaway Motor Oar, Country Family Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 September 1915 · page 3

Mr A. W. Stringer, a motor proprietor of Wellington, on Sunday afternoon took his wife, and a baby boy in arms, a five-year-old daughter, his wife's…

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Central Railway Station. to De Completed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 September 1915 · page 2

Mr. Cann, Minister for Works, has advised the Premier that the preliminary staging in connection with the completion of the Central Railway Station in sydney is being…

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John Bridge Waybills

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 2

Woolgrowers are just now receiving books of waybills from this firm for the approaching season, and a complimentary copy of one of these…

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The Dardanelles. Sea of Marmora. Railway Bridge Destroyed. Athens, Sept. 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 3

Seamen landed in the Gulf of Ismid from a British submarine and partly dynamited the railway bridge at Gebize, a town in Asia Minor, 28 miles south-east-by-east of…

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Race Meeting at Bishop's Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 4

Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson, M.L.A., has received a communication from the Chief Secretary's office, dated Sydney, September 0, in the following terms:—"In reply to…

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The Cross Roads of Love Chapter XXVIII.—Continued

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 4

Andro, as a matter of course, expressed readiness to go anywhere on such an errand, while Ramsay was beginning to chair his friend on his…

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Sectional Unionism. Railway and Tramway Exployees

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 3

In the School of Arts last evening, Mr. Claude Thompson, general secretary of the New South Wales Amalgamated Hallway and Tramway Service Association,, delivered…

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Railway Level Crossing's

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 2

VISIT OF DIVISIONAL ENGINEER. Mr. H. S. Vognn, Divisional Engineer of the Railway Department, visited Muswellbrook on Monday last…

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Tramway Men Off to the War. Presentation of Colours

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 6

Nearly- 10,000 people witnessed the presentation of the colours in Sydney on Monto 420 tramway men who have enrolled. The function took place in Belmore Park…

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Super Tax and Motor Tax. to Be Re-imposed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 10

There is every prospect that the super tax and motor tax which wore introduced as emergency measures to meet the extraordinary circumstances arising out of the war…

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Tram Accident. Several People Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 8

A trim accident resulting in the injury of several persons, occurred in George-street West, Sydney, shortly before 8 o'clock on Monday evening…

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