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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

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Corowa & District Railway League. Branch Formed at Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 March 1923 · page 4

A meeting was held in the Albury Town Hall last week to discuss the extension of the border railways by linking up the Wahgunyah and Corowa…

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Proposed Railway to Howlong

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 March 1923 · page 2

On Wednesday last a deputation from Howlong waited upon Mr. MePherson, Acting Premier of Victoria, at Chiltern, and urged that a cockspur railway…

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A Dilapidated Bridge

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. H. S. Bowles, of Yarrdwonga, has received the following communication from the Department of Public Works (Local Government branch)…

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Fearful Flying Fatality Aeroplane on Fire at Great Height Occupants Dashed to Pieces

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 1

While flying at a great height in Chesterfield an aeroplane burst into flames. The wings broke off und the pilot and officer, Brooke Hunt, fell…

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D. & M. Railway Picnic

The Independent · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 2

A meeting of the committee in connection with (be picnic which is to take place at the Mathoura racecourse on Wednesday, 11th April, was held on Thursday evening…

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Motors. Some Useful Information Regarding Them. a Motor Show

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 36

A motor-car show is mooted in Melbourne for next July. The proposal emanated from outside the leading motor traders, who have promptly…

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ALBURY and District. Corowa and District Railway League

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 22

Meetings in connection wish the movement to build a line of railway from. Corowa to Oaklands will be held as follow:—Ringwood, Monday April…

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Railway Porter's Honesty

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 4

When a Corowa resident sent a case of tomatoes to a relative named Stewart, at Caulfield, he apparently did not advise Mr. Stewart of the fact, The…

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Corowa and District Railway League

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 4

A public meeting under the auspices of the above league was held at Burraja on Friday night last. Mr. Dave Smith was in the chair, and Messrs. J…

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Wahgunyah-oaklands Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. G. Bridges, Victorian representative of the Oaklands to Wahganyah Railway League, waited on the Wangaratta Council on Monday to enlist…

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Border Railways. Linking Up Corowa, Wahgunyah and Oaklands

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 3

In response to an invitation from the Corowa-Oaklands League Cr. R. J. Burrowes, president of the Shire, convened a meeting of Rutherglen district…

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Against Drought. Drought Menace. Will Cabinet Act ? Effect on Railways

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 March 1923 · page 4

It has been asserted that the present Government has failed to function on a number of big questions owing to overlaping of Ministerial…

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The Carrathool Bridge

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

IN another column we reprint a letter from the Works Department, in reply to the request of a deputation which waited upon the Minister in January…

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A Fatal Motor Accident. Melbourne-Geelong Road

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

A motor car containing Thomas Jones, of Geelong, his wife, son and daughter, overturned on the Melbourne Geelong road through the tyre…

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Holiday Motoring Accidents. a Blue Mountain Thrill

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

News received from Mornington (V.) today states that a large charabanc overturned. Nine people were pinned beneath it. There are no further de…

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The Railway Traffic. Not So Good as in 1922

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

The holiday railway revenue on Thursday was £10,729; Friday, £5338; Saturday, £10,729; Monday, £12,900. Compared with last Easter Monday…

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Motor Accident at Liverpool

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

A motor cot containing a man and four female relatives capsized near Liverpool yesterday All the occupants were sent to hospitals…

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Riverina Railways

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 3

On each sure of the railway that is to be construed by the Victorian Government from a point on the Deniliquin - Mosma railway line…

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Border Railways

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 2

A proclamation has been gazetted by His Excellency the Government under the Closer Settlement Ant notifying the estes situated wholly of partly with…

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A New Victorian Cousin. Albert-road. Chiltern

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff.—This is my first attempt at sending you a letter, although I often thought of doing so, but seeing the puzzles in the…

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