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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

847 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 43

Steamer Attacked by Aeroplane

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 6

A German aeroplane threw two bombs at the Dutch steamer Zevenbergen in the North Sea, but missed…

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Women and Bridge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 14

Miss Maud Warren (in "Public Opinion") asks why women should not play bridge if they like it. She denies, as far as her own experience enables her to do so, that the…

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Roads Made of Oil

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 4

The Romans were the master road-makers of the world and until the advent of motor traction our modern roadmakers found that the methods of the ancients…

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Curtailed Train Service. Protest by Corowa Business People

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 5

A largely attended meeting was held at the school of Arts on Wednesday evening last representative of the commercial and business interests of the…

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Barrier Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 32

On Friday Mr. Arthur Griffith performed the ceremony of officially turning the first sod of the Condobolin-Broken' Hill railway in the presence of n large and…

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Increasing the Mortality of Stock Shocking Departmental Bungling, Fodder Delayed on Railways. Facts and Figures

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 3

The effect of drought conditions on stock needs no explanation. Regarding the incompetency of the Railway Department to meet the grave situation, the delay of…

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Try to Blow Up Railway Tunnel. Paris

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 6

German agents, disguised as workmen, have been arrested in Italy endeavouring to blow up a railway tunnel near Genoa…

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The Transcontinental Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 2

The Chief railway engineer, in a report to the Minister for Home Affairs fixes the maximum time to be occupied in completing the cast to west railway,…

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Watering Travelling Stock. Railway Employes Invention

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 March 1915 · page 5

Mr., J. Pike, s railway employe, of Bourke, has submitted to the Railway Department an invention which be clams will solve the problem of…

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Aeroplane Wind Covering

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 3

Many different materials have been tired for covering the wings of aeroplanes, including linen, silk, cotton, celluloid films, and aluminium fo[?] To…

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Reduced Railway Services

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 March 1915 · page 1

Complaints are still being heard in connection with the triweekly service on the Culcairn Corowa line. It is being kot[?]nly felt at Walla Walla, as the…

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Albury a v. RAILWAY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 4

The above match was commenced on the turf wicket at the Albury Sports Ground on Saturday. The wicket was anything but in Bond order. During the…

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Motor Car Fatality. Managing Editor of "Sun" Killed. "Snowy" Baker in Hospital. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 2

A sad motor accident happened to-day. A motor car, in which were seated Mr. Reginald ("Snowy") Baker, the well-known boxing promoter; Mr. Redmond,…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Journalist Killed. "Snowy" Baker Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Sunday.—A motor-car accident near the Spit, on the road from Sydney to Manly, this afternoon resulted in the death of Mr. George McLeod Redmond,…

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Annoying Railway Incapacity

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

Work on the band hall is now at a standstill owing to the non-delivery of a consignment of hardwood, the order for which was placed on the 16th February…

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Latest War Cables. Big Battle Imminent on the Western Front. Aeroplane Raids. Tremendous Battle in Progress. Fight in the Carpathians. Hungary Threatened. Work in the Dardanelles. Allied Fleet to Be Strengthened. Italy and Austria. Position in the Balkans. Crisis Approaching Sydney, Monday, 3.30 p.m

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 2

It is reported that the Germans are preparing for a great attack on the western front, which is to commence on 1st April…

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Fodder for Albury District. Railway Department Lifts Embargo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 3

The Railway Department has lifted the embargo on the transit of fodder for Albury. A great deal of correspondence on the…

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German West Africa a Railway Dynamited

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 2

The Germans in the Aus district of German West Africa have dynamited the railway, and are feeling that in a waterless desert…

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Inification of Railway Gauges. Strong Opposition by Mr. Griffith. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 1 April 1915 · page 2

Mr. Griffith, lately N.S.W. Minister for Public Works, referring to the question of the unification of railway ganges, at the Royal Show luncheon to-day, said he…

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Aeroplane Making in Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 32

A busy time is in store for the Commonwealth Aviation Corps. In addition to the pilots' flying course, which is now in progress at Point Cook, activity is being…

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