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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1914

1,259 stories in Murray's papers · page 20 of 63

The Rights of Travelling Stock. Definition of Road Under P.P. Act

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

In the Assembly last week, Mr G. Black asked the Secretary for Lands,—(I) Is it a fact that the present definition of a road under the Pastures Protection Act…

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Increase of Salaries for Railway Officers. 3000 Lower Grade Officers Benefit. Eight Hours System to Be Introduced. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 3

Some 3000 railway salaried officers are affected by an award made this afternoon by the Food Supply and Distribution Wages Board, after consideration of an…

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Border Railways. Premiers Interviewed

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 1

The People of Wentworth and the settlers of the Darling Valley have been agitating for some years for the extension of the Mildura…

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Barnawartha to Howlong. Howlong Railway League. Deputation to Minister for Works

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 4

A deputation form the Howlong Railway League interviewed the Minister for Works (Mr. Arthur Griffith) in the express train on Thursday morning, and…

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Border Railways

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

On Wednesday, at 1.30 p.m., the New South Wales Minister for Works, Mr. Griffith, will receive the deputation from gross Association to wait on him with…

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Motor-driven Safety-razor

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 4

A safety-razor, connected to a [?]tor by means of a flexible shaft[?] the latest invention to simplify [?]ing. The blades are actuated in[?]…

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New Railway Travelling Predicted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 4

What is to take the place of the steam locomotive was considered by Mr. F. W. Lancaster in a British Association paper. After nearly a…

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Balranald Railway League. Appointment of Delegate to attend Dapu[?]ation to Melbourne. Swan Hill Balranald Line Advocated

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 2

A very representative meeting of the Balranald branch of the Combined Railway Leagues was held at the Royal Hotel on Friday evening, the president…

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Shire Road Plant

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 3

During the consideration of th engineer's report at Culcairn Shire Council meeting on Monday last, in which reference was made to the road…

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Road Inspection by Councillors

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 2

Daring the discussion of the engineer's report at the Culcairn Shire Council on Monday last it was pointed out by the President (Cr. H. A…

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Run Over by Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 32

John Costello, a ganger stationed at Woy Woy, was run over and cut to pieces, by the Brisbane express, on Friday night. The fatality occurred between Woy Woy…

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Love and the Aeroplane. Chapter Iii. the Black Stallion

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 5

"Well, if you must come too,I suppose you must," grumbled old Silas Weldon, as Robins, the spry-little soap canvasser, helped him to pull out Bill…

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Body in Train. Victim's Father Acquitted. London, April 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 42

The trial at Old Bailey of John Starchfield on the charge of having murdered his seven-year-old son in a railway carriage was concluded to-day…

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Train Falls Into River. Fifty Natives Killed. London, April 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 43

Messages received from Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, state that while a train was passing over a bridge near the seaport of Tanjong Priok the…

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“The Burning Train.” to Be Shown at Berrigan on Easter

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 6

“The following is a synopsis of “The Burning Train” film, one of the star pictures to be shown at the entertainment, under the auspices of…

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Train Falls Into River. Carriage Stands on End. Attica (Indiana), April 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 43

Three people were killed and 35 injured, in a railway disaster to-day. The Wabash passenger train crashed through a bridge over the Wabash River…

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The Rights of Travelling Stock. Definition of Road Under P.P. ACT

The Independent · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 3

In the Assembly last week. Mr. G. Blank asked the Secretary for Lands:—[?] it a fact that the present de[?]tion of a road under the Pastures Protection Act prevents…

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Linking Up the Railways

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 45

Settlers in the district between Swan Hill and Balranald seized the opportunity afforded by the Premiers' Conference to send a deputation to Melbourne to…

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Uniform Railway Gauge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 33

While the Premiers' Conference was discussing the break of railway' gauge, problem, Mr. Cook, Prime Minister, caused considerable astonishment by threatening…

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Border Railways

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 33

The proposed railway connection between Merbein (Victoria) and "Wentworth (N.S.W.) was the subject of representation by a deputation received at State…

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