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Railways, roads & transport, 1916

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Armed Motor Attack in Egypt

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 20

The British Press Bureau has furnished a brisk account of the lighting which took place in Western Egypt several days ago, before the British forces, under…

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Bombs on Railway Town

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 22

Details have been made available in Rome of an Italian air-raid on Sunday on the important Austrian railway and manufacturing town of Laibach (45 miles…

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Border Railways. Evidence Taken at Moulamein

The Independent · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 4

The joint Royal Commission on Border Railways, comprising representatives of the New South Wales and Victorian Parliaments, arrived in…

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Railway Markets. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 6

Prime wheaten chaff, 4/6; urime oaten, 4/3. Maize: River, 5/2 to 5/3; imported, 5/1 to 5/3…

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Border Railways. Joint Commission on Tour. Local and District Proposals

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

On Monday evening the Commission on Border Railways, composed of seven members of the Victorian Railways Committee, and seven members of the…

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Border Railways Inquiry Evidence at Howlong

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 3

Tuesday last was a day of fair excitement at Howlong (writes our correspondent), owing to the Border Railways Royal Commission having fixed that day…

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Railway Amendment Bill. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 3

Cabinet to-day approved of the draft of the Railway Amendment Bill, which the Premier (Mr. Holman) catlined last week. The bill will be submitted…

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Motor Car Murder. Accused Men Remanded Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 3

At the City Court to-day John Williamson and Leslie Taylor charged with the wilful muder of William Patrick Haines, a motor-car driver at Bulleen on…

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Daysdale-Henty Railway. Completion of Humula Line

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 2

8In the N.S.W. Assembly last week, Mr. Cusack, M.L.A. for Albury, asked the Minister for Public Works if it was a fact that the wheat produced from the River…

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Border Railways Inquiry. Evidence at Howlong

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 3

Tuesday last was a day of fair excitement at Howlong (write our correspondent). awing to the Border Railways Royal Commission having fixed that [?]…

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Henty-daysdale Railway Humula Line Completed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 4

In the Assembly on Wednesday lost Mr. Cusack asked the Minister for Public Works if it was a fact that the wheat produced from the Biverina…

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Border Railways. Commission Takes Evidence at Moulamein

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 29 March 1916 · page 4

The Joint Royal Commission on Border Railways, comprising representatives of the New South Wales and Victorian Parliaments, arrived in…

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Four Hundred Aeroplane Casualties. London, March 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 23

Speaking in the Commons Mr. Pemberton Billing again accused the Government of murdering air pilots by providing unsuitable and unsafe aeroplanes, with…

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First Shot Told. Carried Away the Bridge

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 6

It transpires that at one time the the A cant[?]ra o served thhe Greif with two funnels, and then with three. Next one of the Alcantaras' guns was trained…

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Latest "John Bridge" Sale. Greasy to 19d. More Good Averages

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 6

Joohn Bridge and Co.'s latest sale took place on the 21st, and was responsible, as usual, for some good results. Looking through the list, we…

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Closing of Wool Season. Averages Stand Splendidly. "John Bridge's" Latest Sale

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 1

At this stage of the wool-selling season diminishing prices might reasonably be expected. It is, therefore, pleasing to note that John Bridge and…

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Closing of Wool Season. Averages Stand Splendidly. “John Bridge’s” Latest Sale

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 3

At this stage of the wool-selling season diminishing prices might reasonably be expected. It is, therefore, pleasing to note that John…

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Triple Train Collision. Thirty Persons Killed. Disaster in Fog. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 3

Thirty persons were killed and forty others injured in a triple railway collision which occurred on Tuesday. The "20th. Century Limited" express…

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Closer Settlement. Disposal of Ungarie South, Bygalore, and Gorman's Hill West Estates. on the Authorised Railway From Wyalong to Cargelligo

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 16

The Lands' Department have published an announcement, that the closer settlement, purchase, farms, into which the Ungarie South, Bygalore, and German's Hill…

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Royal Commission on East-west Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 18

By a Federal Executive order issued, Judge Eagleson, of the Victorian County. Court, jurisdiction, has been appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into and…

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