Local and General News. Fallen Tress on Roads
AT Monday's meeting of the Shire Council a request was presented for payment for removing a tree that had fallen across a road, "and the Counoil, rightly in "this case,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1917
241 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 7 of 13
Record Railway-building. Wonderful Feats in Rapid Construction Achieved by Clever Engineers
Russia has just beaten all records in railway construction. She has built a great double-track, broad-guage line from Alexandrovsk, an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Exciting Chase Hunting the Coyote in a Motor Car. Five Miles of Cross Country Driving
Coyote chasing is rapidly becoming a favourite outdoor sport with a number of Dodge Brothers owners in North-western Canada…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Highest Railway in the World
The highest railway in the world in the Central Railway of Peru, which ranches an altitude of 15,865 feet, and has its highest railway station at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charity Creek Bridge. Department of Local Government, Sydney, July 6, 1917
Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 1st May last, and previous correspondence, urging that a Government giant be made towards the erection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Matters
THE Railway Department has withdrawn the Stationmasters from A Coopernook and Kendall, and from 25th July all traffic to and from these…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Guarding the Hawkesbury Bridge
IT is not generally known troops continue to guard the Hawkesbury Bridge. When the war broke out, nearly three years ago, a squad of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Guarding the Hawkesbury Bridge
It is not generally known that troops continues to guard the Hawkesbury Bridge. When the war broke out, nearly three years ago, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After Many Years! the Railway the Macleay. a Visit to Railway Buildings in West Kempsey
WE have to tell of a railway; the North Coast Railway, and of the arrival at Kempsey in such tardy time that thirty years have ela[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Increased Fares. Railways and Trams
He new railway rates provide for 10 per cent and in certain cases 15 per cent increases. The penny tram section is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Strike. Sydney
The Railway Commissioners have declined to withdraw the card system, and the men at Randwick and Eve[?] workshops are expected to strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Time Table
The railway authorities announce that from 6th instant the railway time_table will be: North Coast line, down journey arrive at Taree 7.1…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway & Tramway Strike
The threatened industrial storm burst on Thursday, and 3000 men at Randwick tramway workshops left their work at 9 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Railway Strike. a Serious Position. Sydney
The men at the Eveleigh workshops struck work at 9 o'clock this morning. The works are practically closed. [The trouble, which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Exciting Chase. Hunting the Coyote in a Motor Car. Five Miles of Cross Country Driving
COYOTE chasing is rapidly becoming a favourite outdoor sport with a number of Dodge Brothers owners in North-western Canada. Several letters, telling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Workers' Strike
The workmen in the Randwick and Eveleigh workshops. Sydney, struck on Thursday, and the workshops are practically closed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Trouble. Sydney Card System
The Railway Commissioners at Sydney have decided not to withdraw the Card system amongst the workmen, which was demanded by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Strike. Sydney
The Government is still Standing firm. Very few trains are running. The strikers now number 10,000. It is understood the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Trouble. Manning Shire Council Takes Action
At the meeting of the Manufacture Shire Council on Monday the Sta[?]ing orders were suspended to enables the President to submit a resolution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Possibilities
Even if the whole of the railway men were to join in the strike Sydney would not suffer a famine. There are big flour stacks. Bread…
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