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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1922

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Railways for Riverina

The Independent · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 2
Also in The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express

The Premier (Sir George Fuller) informed a deputation last week that it was the intention of hit Government to Rive the people of Southern Riverina, as soon as…

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Victorian Railways Into Riverina. Negotiations to Be Commenced

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 33

Along the Murray Valley, land on the Victorian side, benefiting from convenient transport facilities and irrigation, is being sold at from £20 to £40 an acre…

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Exorbitant Railway Freights

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 31

Six million pounds of the taxpayers' money are sunk in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area. Thirteen thousand acres are planted with fruit trees and vines. It is…

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New Lachlan Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 30

A conference of railway leagues, farmers and settlers branches, and other public bodies was held in Forbes on Saturday, in favour of a line of railway south of the…

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Railway Strike Averted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 3

By opposing a strike urged by the extremists to force the railways commissioners to pay the Federal award rates, the more moderate section of the engineers…

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About Motors. Look for Cracked Plug

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 38

The porcelain of the spark plug will sometimes crack and so short-circuit the plug. If there is any indication of a cylinder missing fire, although a good…

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Railway Commissioner's Tour of Riverina

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 28

After a tour of the greater portion of the Riverina country the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. James Fraser) and Assistant Commissioners (Messrs. Fox and…

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Holbrook Railway Service

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 45

The intention of the Railway Commissioners to connect the Holbrook train with the down Albury mail, instead of the Melbourne express as at present, came in for…

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Tram Accident in Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 2

Owing to the lights going out on a Dulwich Hill tram, in George-street West, the tram was left standing in the darkness. A Lilyfield tram…

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Across the Border. Proposed Railway Extensions. Government Intention

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 May 1922 · page 4

As mentioned m last issue of the “Pastoral Times,” Sir George Fuller in formed a deputation in Sydney last week that it was the intention of the…

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Mulwala Yarrawonga Bridge

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 2

For the construction of the reinforced concrete approaches on the Victorian side to the new fixed bridge over the Murray river from Yarrawonga to…

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Train on Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 May 1922 · page 3

An exciting incident occurred on the Drailiquin train on Tuesday evening Between Mathoura and Deniliquin a spark from the engine which [?]…

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Aeroplane Mishap

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 2

Lieutenant Barkell, accompanied by a passenger named Charles Harris, while flying in an aeroplane over Balli. met with engine trouble and had to make a…

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Tooleybuc News. Tooleybuc Bridge

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 1

Mr Roed, supervising engineer. and Mr Keating engineer (who is in charge of the work), are at Tooleybuc, and have commended preliminary work…

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Swan Hill Bairanaid, Railway. Meeting of Committee

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 2

A meeting of the committee formed to advocate the construction of a railway from Swan Hill to Balranaid was held in the Shire Hall, Swan Hill, on…

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Railway Extension Into the Riverina

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 2

The New South Wales Government is still inquiring into the question of extension of Victorian railways into the Riverina. Legislation will be necessary…

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Railway Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 2

Sydney—Five persons were injured in an accident at Central Railway this morning. The 8.38 train from Canterbury over ran itself and…

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Died in a Train. a Coree Farmer

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1922 · page 2

On Thursday last there was taken to the residence of Captain F. W. Strickland, of Verdoc street, Williamstown, the corpse of Mr…

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Appeals Against Shire Assessments Land on Lower River Road

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1922 · page 3

At the Toonmwal police court on hurs[?]lay list, before Mr Cohe[?] M., the [?]pieals lodged against the [?] assessed by the Barrigan Shire…

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