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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

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The State Railways. Two Experts to Inquire

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 2

The Premier announced to-night that two experts were to be brought from England as soon as possible to inquire into the management of the…

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Proposed Railway From Canberra to Yass

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 37

Part of the scheme for establishing the seat of Government at Canberra has been the building of a railway from Canberra to Yass to avoid the…

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Motors. Some Useful Information Regarding Them the Menace of the Novice

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 36

There is a tendency among now car owners towards dangerously fast driving. They generally want to find out what their cars will do in the matter…

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Projected Railway to Federal Capital

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 22

A conference of the Yass-Canberra-Jervis Bay Decentralisation Railway League was attended by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Austin Chapman),…

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The Carrathool Bridge

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 2

The vexed question of the approaches to the Carrathool Bridge, now in course of erection, is still unsettled. As is well-known the Carrathool and…

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Impecunious Councils. No Funds for Road Construction

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 4

The question of providing sufficient money to construct roads and maintain them is becoming an acute problem for many local governing bodies (writes a…

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After Moonee Valley Races. Electric Trams Crash

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 2

On Saturday evening when an electric tram filled with men returning from Moonee Valley races was stationary at the corner of Mount Alexander…

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Latest Telegrams. Fatal Motor Accident. Car Overturns near Dubbo. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 2

At Dubbo a motor car accident occurred on Sunday afternoon. A fishing party was returning from the Macquarie River, when a tyre burst,…

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Railway Smash

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 3

Through a misunderstanding between a signalman and an engine driver a passenger train from .Heathsville crashed into a dead and in the deep cutting on…

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Electric Tram Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 3

A sensational collision occurred, at Flemington (Melbourne) on Saturday evening,when two electric trams, collided, and, although fortunately, an…

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N.s.w. Railways

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 2

The Premier stated on Thursday nighty that the Government had decided-to make a full inquiry into the working of the railways. With that object in…

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Victorian Railways

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 2

The annual report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners, showing n surplus for the year of £20,183, compared with a deficit of £19,100 for the…

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Riverina Railway Proposals

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 2

In the issue of a Deniliquin contemporary of 8th inst. appears an article (published in another column) on the proposed connection…

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Jerilderie-Deniliquin Railway

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 1

"Old "Un" writes in the Deniliquin "Pastoral Times" as follows : Now that the weather has taken up and the country is fit to travel…

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Good Roads Campaign

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 37

At the meeting of the Albury Municipal Council last week, a letter to the following effect, was received from the National Roads Association (New…

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The Balldale Road

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 2

One has only to pass over the bad sections of the road between Balldale and Corowa to know how genuine were the complaints by Balldale and district…

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Aeroplane Crashes. Five Persons Killed. London, September 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 20

Crashing heavily to the earth near Ivinghoe beacon, one of the heighest points in the Chiltern Hills, a D.H. 34 aeroplane, engaged in the Daimler…

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The Federal Road Grant. Applications Invited

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 1

Mr. Fitzpatrick, Minister of Local Government, invites local bodies and shires to make their applications for portion of the Federal road grant…

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Cheap Motor Fuel

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 5

A South African chemist named Diamond has invented a motor fuel, extracted from maize, which he is putting on the market at 16 a gallon. Tests…

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Motor Fatality at Dubbo

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 22

A shocking motor accident occurred at Dubbo early this week. A party was returning from the Macquarie River in a car when a tyre blew out, causing…

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