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

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

641 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 12 of 33

Concrete Roads Macadam Roads

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 7

About 13 years ago the people of the country districts of the U.S.A. realising that macadam roads were dusty, muddy and very expensive to…

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Taxes and Roads Government Criticised

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 11

Mudgee.—The manner in which the Government doles out grants for expenditure on roads was severely criticised at Cudegong…

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Railway Commissioners Annual Visit of Inspection Through Carriages Granted Trucking Yards to Be Built

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 15

The Railway Commissioners arrived at Wyalong Central Station at noon on Tuesday last. The party consisted of Mr James…

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New Railway West Wyalong- Condobolin

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

The following appeared in Wednesday's "Sun":—The construction of the proposed railway from West Wyalong…

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Recommended Wyalong Towards Condobolin Railway

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

Mr L. M. Wilson, Hon. Secretary of the Lake Cowal Railway League, received a wire on Wednesday stating that the Public…

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Motor Bike Not Returned Police Court Case

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 3

At the West Wyalong Police Court on Wednesday before Mr. H. MacDougall, P.M., a case listed was that of George Loolong v…

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The Wyalong Advocate Friday, May 18, 1923 the Toll of the Motor

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

The number of more or less serious motor accidents reported almost daily would suggest to the uninitiated that this system of…

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Harbor Collision Steamer and Punt Punt Sinks in Six Minutes Loss of Horses and Motors (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

The North Coast Coy's steamer "Burringbar," inward bound collided at six o'clock last night with the Sydney Ferries vehicle punt…

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Motor Notes Loss of Power

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 7

In the petrol of the automobile there is stored energy fifty. times greater than that which we actually use in the car. Our…

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Railway Surveyed Eugowra to Parkes

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 5

Advice has now been received through the Public Works Department that the railway authorities have completed the exploration…

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Railway for Wamboyne

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

It was announced on Wednesday that the Public Works Committee had approved the construction of a railway from West Wyalong towards…

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Eugowra Railway Extension

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

Messrs E. A. Buttenshaw and A. H. Grimm, Ms. L.A., are in receipt of the following official communication from the Public Works Department dated…

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Railway Commissioners Annual Visit of Inspection. The Eugowra Parkes Proposal

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 5

Messrs Fraser, Cann and Fox, the Railway Commissioners of N. S.W., accompanied by a number of chief officers of the Department arrived in…

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Renting the Road

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 7
Also in Cowra Free Press

Thousands of landholders all over the State, and nearly all the shire councils, are in a tangle over the question of unused roads. Up…

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North Goolagong Road Matters Finalised at Last. Conference of Waugoola and Boree Shire Councils End of a Long Drawn Out Battle

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 3

The following gentlemen met at Mr. C. M. Lawford’s (solicitor) office at Canowindra on Saturday last for the purpose of discussing…

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Alleged Theft of Motor Car Case at Temora

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 4

At the Temora Police Court last week, Edward David Wells, on bail, was committed for trial on a charge of breaking and entering…

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Free Motor Trips

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 2

Between the end of May and the end of June, Peasley & White have so far booked seven Buicks to arrive in Forbes. Anyone desiring a free…

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Eugowra Railway Extension

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 4

The Parkes Chamber of Commerce and the local Railway League have recently been trying to infuse a little life into the dry bones of the…

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Rents of Roads

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 23 May 1923 · page 8

Under the 1919 Act control of aril public and dedicated roads was vested in the Councils, and the definition of a "public road" in the Act includes…

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