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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1917

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Great Strike. Railway Men Come Out. Grave Possibilities. Trains and Tram Service Curtailed. (Continued from Page 4) SYDNEY

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 7

THE men at Randwick and Eveleigh workshops struck at nine o'clock this morning, and the works are practically closed…

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Railway and Tram Services Being Reduced

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 7

The tram service, also the city, and suburban railway service, have already been greatly reduced, so as to conserve power. The service is now being run in…

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Canadian Railways. Big Government, Purchase. Vancouver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 8

The Canadian Minister of Finance has announced that the Government has taken control of the Canadian Northern Railway with probable nationalization at a later…

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Trains and Trams. Reduced Services

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 6

In the course of a statement issued last night, the Railway Commissioners announce the reduction of the train and tram services. The Commissioners say…

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The Railways

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 2

SOME little time ago the Railway Commissioners, in order to ascertain the quantity of work they were getting done in return for the wages they paid, introduced a card…

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The Railway Deficit

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 5

The statement of revenue and expenditure for the year lately closed shows that there is a deficit in the railway accounts. What the deficit will…

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The Railway Strike. the Card System. Deputation to Commissioners. Mr. Fraser Replies to Suspicions

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 8

A deputation from the Labour Council, and representatives of the unions affected, waited upon the Railway Commissioners on…

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Reduced Train Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

In consequence of the industrial trouble, extensive curtailments in the Newcastle and Maitland train services are announced. Full particulars are published in…

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Northern Recruiting Train

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

Major Shillington, organising secretary of the New South Wales Recruiting Committee, has forwarded an urgent telegram of Lieut. Elworthy, local recruiting office, stating…

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Recruiting. Another Recruiting Train

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 6

It has been decided to run another recruiting train, this time from the North Coast, from Tenterfield to Maitland. Mr. P. A. Buckle-ton will be in charge, and amongst his crew…

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Recruiting Train. Great Northern Line

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 9

It is officially announced that following upon the successful results wihch attended the- recruiting train from tho Werriwa electorate, it has been proposed to make a similar effort…

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Increased Fares. Railways and Trams

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 8

The new railway rates provide for paper cent and in certain cases 15 per, cent increases. The penny tram section is to be a [?]…

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Railway Workshops Idle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners having refused to obey the ultimatum of the employees with reference to the introduction of the card system in…

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The Railway Deficit

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 5

"Tha statement of revenue and expenditure for the year lately closed shows that there is a deficit in the railway accounts. What the deficit will…

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Railway Patriotic Fund

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 1

The local railway employees (says "Murrurundi Times"), since the outbreak of the war up to the 13th inst have contributed the very tidy sum…

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Sunday Trams Cancelled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

In consequences of the industrial trouble in Sydney it is announced that the Sunday tram service in Maitland will be cancelled. On week days trams will depart from…

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Tramway Union. Protest Against Espionage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

Meetings of members of the Tramway Union were held yesterday as a result of the discontent caused in the service over the espionage system now in vogue. At…

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East Greta and Aberdare Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

It is notified that on and after Wednesday next; 8th instant, 2nd class passenger fares on the East Greta and Aberdare railways. will be charged at the rate of one penny…

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Industrial Crisis. Defection Extends. Locomotive Fuelmen Out. Railway Services Threatened. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

The strike at the Eveleigh and Randwick railway workshops is extending. and the continuance of the railway services is being seriously threatened…

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East-west Railway. Estimate Largely Exceeded

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 6

Interesting statements regarding the Port Augusta-Kalgoorlie railway in (1052 miles, which is so be finished in September, and opened by the Governor…

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