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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1911

425 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 7 of 22

Cumnock Molong Railway

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 2

The secretary of the Cumnock Railway League has received word that as soon as a surveyor is available he will be sent along to survey the proposed…

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Significance of the Hedjaz Railway

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 4

The "Broad Arrow" again draws attention to the increased power to strik against us in Egypt possessed by Abdu[?]Hamid since the construction of the…

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Why Leap Year? Maids "Bespeak Men." a Railway Conversation

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1911 · page 3

"Leap year again," said the Man in the Corner (writes a contributor to the "Daily Mail"), looking up from his newspaper with a humorous eye upon…

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Railway Extension. Orange Plains Copper Field

Western Champion · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 6

Further consideration was given on Wednesday by the Public Works Committee as to the expediency of conatrvcting a line of railway from…

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Significance of the Hedja[?] Railway

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 9

The "Broad Arrow" again draws attention to the increased power to strik against us in Egypt possessed by Abdul Hamid since the construction of the…

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"An[?]us" Motor Cars, Bu[?]ies, Etc

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 6

The firm of Messrs. Angus & Son, whose advertisement appears on this page, is just now specially equipped to meet the big Easter trade. Hundreds…

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A Good Motor Car

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 6

During the past few weeks we have been pointing out the wisdom of only buying good motor cars—in fact, cars of repute only—and mentioned the…

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Why Leap Year? Maids "Bespeak Men." a Railway Conversation

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 8

"Leap year again," said the Man in the Corner (writes a contributor to the "Dally Mall"), looking up from his newspaper with a humorous eye upon…

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Railway Disaster. Passenger Train. Dashes Into Goods Waggons. Eleven Killed

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 3

Eleven lives were lost in an appalling disaster on the Taff Vale Railway near Pontypridd on Monday, morning. Ave other passengers suffering severe…

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The Stone in the Road

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 4

There once lived a king who ruled his subjects so wisely and so well that his fame spread near and far. But everything that wanted doing…

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Double Train Tragedy. Man and Wife Killed. the Inquest

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 6

The inquests, held yesterday, 11th March, on the bodies of Mr and Mrs Mervyn Hughes, of Kenilworthcourt, Putney, the young couple who…

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Safe Robbery the Grenfell Railway Station Broken Into

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 2

On Wednesday morning the officials at the local railway sta­tion found, on going on duty, that the office had been broken…

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Motor Cars

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 5

The growing popularity of good motor cars amongst country owners is becoming more apparent each week—especially now that the inferior quality…

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Jemalong Shire. Road Making Plant

Western Champion · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 23

At the meeting of the Jemalo[?] Shire Council last Saturday the engineer (Mr Booth) submitted a repo[?] showing that the shire road makin[?]…

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Double Train Tragedy. Max and Wife Killed. the Inquest

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 6

The inquests, held yesterday, 11th March, on the bodies of Mr and Mrs Mervyn Hughes, of Kenilworthcourt, Putney, the young couple who…

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A New Motor Car

Western Champion · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 7

The first silent worm-drive Wolseley motor car to be imported into N.S.W. has been purchased by Mr Lindsay Wilson, of Milton, near Nowra. Mr…

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Canowindra-Gregra Railway League

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 4

An important meeting of the Cudal branch of the above league was held in the School of Arts hall on Saturday last, to receive and consider the statistics…

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Motor Cars

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 7

The growing popularity of good motor cars amongst country owners is becoming more apparent each week—especially now that the inferior quality…

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Crown Lands and Railway Extension

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 2

MR. A. J. KELLY, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Under Secretary for Lands, under date April 6: —…

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The Increasing Motors

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

Everyone, remarks a writer in the? 'Westminster Gazette," knows the extraordinary increase in the number of motor-cars in this country. But it is…

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