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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1919

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Adelaide Without Trams and Trains a City in Darkness. Adelaide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 June 1919 · page 2

Owing to the shortage of coal caused by the seamen's strike, Adelaide and suburbs had no trains or trams yesterday. Owing to restrictions on gas and…

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Fire in Motor Garage Caused by Lighted Petrol Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 June 1919 · page 2

A fire occurred this afternoon on the premises occupied by the Standard Motor Supply Company, in Clarence street. Considerable damage was done before the…

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Wheat That Vanished. a Hundred Thousand Bags Claim Against Railway, Department. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 June 1919 · page 2

The "San" announces to-day that over' 100,000 bags of wheat-supposed to have been in stacks at Enfield have vanished. The paper adds that enormous damage…

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4000 Motor Cars Burned. Paris, June 19

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 June 1919 · page 2

Great quantities of war material are being burned in France, because it would not pay to transport it to Great Britain. A collection of motor cars was…

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Dozing Motorist Robbed Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 June 1919 · page 4

While dozing in the side-car of his motor-cycle, which had broken down in Prymont yesterday morning William Miller was awakened to find a man feeling his…

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Fell Off the Train Accident at the Rock

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 June 1919 · page 4

The seaman, William Connor, who was found some days age by two railway men on the railway the near The Rock, walking along the permanent way in a dozed…

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Railway Facilities

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 26 June 1919 · page 4

The Hon. R. T. Ball, M.L.A. Minister for Public Works [?] Railways, advises us that us the result of the representations ma[?] to the…

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Concrete Roads to Cut the Continent. Scientific Highway Building

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 4

The modern highway is a channel ol traffic, and as motor cars, motor trucks and motor tractors increasingly con tinue to solve the diverse…

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Railway Men's Superstitions

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 46

The superstitions of railway men are so numerous that even the sailor, who is generally credited with being the most superstitious man in the world, must needs…

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The Albury Railway Tragedy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 28

The inquest on the circumstances surrounding the death of Thomas Herbert Smiles, 44, a railway employe, who was killed at Albury on June 16, was…

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Minister for Railways and Works at Culcairn

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 39

The Hon. R. T. Ball delivered an address in the Culcairn Council Chambers on Tuesday evening of last week, the chair being occupied by Cr. W. G. Balfour…

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N.S.W. Railways and the War What the Service Has Done. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 2

The Chief Railway Commissioner states that from the commencement of the war to date, the services-performed on the N.S.W. railways for the Federal Defence…

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Railway Congestion at Tocumwal

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 3

The Hon R T. Ball, M.L.A., Minister for Public Works and Railways, advis s us that as the result of the representations made…

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Refusal To Truck Cattle Railway Men Overpower Police Brisbane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 3

The railway union at Townsville has refused to entrain 400 cattle at Stewart's Creek railway yards. Seven police were sent out to watch the cuttie, but before…

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Train Three Years Late

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 July 1919 · page 4

There is one case on record of a train arriving three years late. The train left Bolivar bound for Beaumont, a distance of seventy-five miles…

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"At the Cross Roads."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1919 · page 22

President Wilson, when interviewed in Paris on Sunday, said:—"The Peace Treaty provides the greatest measure of compensation for those whose lives and…

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A Toy World Seen From an Aeroplane. Flying Through Color

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 4 July 1919 · page 4

Do you remember—long, long ago— when you played trains beside your small brother's Noah's Ark, and sister built her house of bricks close to the…

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Items of Special Interest. Stock Train Improvement

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1919 · page 19

The Railway Department advises that, with the introduction of the winter timetable month, arrangements have been made for the faster transit of live stock…

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Railway Congestion Penalises Albury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1919 · page 28

At a meeting of the Albury Chamber of Commerce, Mr. C. C. Reis referred to the position of Albury business people, in regard to the carriage of goods by rail from…

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Railways and Shows

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 July 1919 · page 19

The question of boosting the country in a practical manner was brought forward by Mr. P. M. Grafton at a meeting of the Young P. and A. Committee, in urging…

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