Railway Facilities. Summer Time-tables
Additional railway facilities for travellers are provided by the Railway Department in the now summer time-table, which is to operate from November 14. It has been…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1915
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Bridge Destroyed
The Athens journal "Hestia" states that a German steamer, coal laden, in haste to enter the Golden Horn to escape from a British submarine, came into collision with…
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To the prevalence of smallpox in the Newcastle district is largely attributed the falling-off in the holiday train traffic yesterday, the bookings showing a considerable…
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It is notified by advertisement in this issue that Messrs. Grey and hancock's motor car will leave Gresford on Thursday next at 7.15 a.m. for the Maitland horse sale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool and Produce Reports. John Bridge and Co. Ltd., Report: for week ending October 30. 1915
Wool.—As evidencing the demand for crossbreds wo would point in the sale of a clip by us of 104 bales which reaslised ever £2000. The record for this class of wool is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on the Long Bridge
At about 3.30 o'clock this afternoon the Fire Brigade received word that the decking of the footbridge on the Long Bridge was alight. Firemen Sercombe and Kerr…
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At the meeting of the West Maitland Council on Tuesday night, the Clerk of Works (Mr. C. T. F. Hood) submitted the following report with regard to a new process…
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There is one important factor affecting road Wear that to have not as yet considered, and one in which the motor car is by far the more serious offender. This is tyre slipping and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Men. Discontent in Sydney
Owing to the increased cost of living the tramway employees in Sydney claim that the minimum rate under their award is not a living but a starvation wage. A meeting…
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Messrs. Carr Bros, will offer at auction on behalf of Messrs. Duggan and Ebbeck, at Carrington's motor garage, Maitland, on Wednesday afternoon next, a Brasier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crinoline Street Bridge, Denman
I recommend that repairs to this bridge, estimated to cost £100, be carried out viz:—Removal and renewal of 3 outer girders each 28 ft long 14in…
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At the meeting of the West Maitland Council on Tuesday night, the Clerk of Works (Mr. C. T. F. Hood) submitted the following report with regard to a new process…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Erection of Fence Across Road Bengalla Subdivision
I have to report that across the resorved road through block 25, W. R. Huggins a split rail fence with slips rails has been erected without…
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Approval is asked to invite tenders for necessary works on these roads as follows:—Re-grading and gravelling road in immediate approach to…
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About a thousand men employed on the now railway line Marrickville to Glebe Island struck work this morning owing to one ganger refusing to join the union…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Accident. the Driver Killed
As the result of a motor car accident in Dover-avenue, near the Stanmore railway station, at 11.30 last night, the driver, David Brodie, was instantly killed. A passenger,…
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Owing to a motor car suffering a blow-out and colliding with the gutter at the corner of Railway Parade and Derby Avenue, Stanmore, on Friday…
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Mr. H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary for War, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, and that the Government had taken steps to compete with Germany's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bad Roads
The continued dry weather is having a bad affect upon the roads of the Shire. The main Maitland-Cessnock road particularly is very bad between Cessnock and Neath, and at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railways. Long-distance Non-stop Train
Probably no train in Australia is doing such long non-stop runs as the Brisbane express will do. The train will depart from Sydney at 6.50 p.m…
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