Motor Corsairs. Paris
"Le Journal" states that the German Navy League is appealing for subscriptions towards equipping 500 motor boats, armed with machine guns, to act as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1915
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 22
Railway Passes to Soldiers
Mr. E. Flynn, president of the Newcastle and Northern District Naval and Military Association, recently wrote to Mr. A. R. Gardiner, M.P., asking him to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Walfish Bay Railway. Capetown
The reconstruction of the railway, establishing the Union gauge, has been completed to Walfish Bay. The cast section of 32 miles was done…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Recruiting Campaign. Another Tramway Contingent. Sydney
Recruiting in Sydney this morning was seriously affected by rain. At Victoria Barracks 105 were enrolled up to noon, and 50 tramway men were amongst the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Naval Bridging Train
Mr. H. J. Connell, of Hamilton West has received word from his brother, Driver A. C. Connell, who sailed early in June with the Nasal Bridging Force…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Violent German Prisoner. Jumps From a Train
Woodville Junction was the scene yesterday forenoon of a desperate dash for liberty made by a German prisoner named Schultz. A number of enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Aeroplane Bombs. Bucharest
It is reported that the recent fires in Constantinople were due to Russian aeroplane bombs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Free Railway Transit for Soldiers. Sydney
Mr. Edden, M.P., has received the following letter from the Under-secretary for Finance and Trade:—with referonee to your question, without notice, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War by Aeroplane
The aeroplane is the only weapon which can turn the German lines. It can fly over the heavy guns, Over the machine guns, over the steel and concrete redoubts, over…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Carrier Pigeons on Aeroplane
Carrier pigeons were let loose from an aeroplane at Bue not long since, and it was found that this could be done with very good success. The society known as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Germans Steal Railways. Protest From Belgium. Amsterdam
The Germans have officially announced the 360 kilometers of the Belgian railroads are to be broken up and sent to-wards Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Extensions
Various railway extension works are being carried out in the Newcastle district. In connection with the development of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Sydney Letter. Recruiting and Organisation.—of Interest to Shippers.—mr. Hugh Ward Speaks for Australia.—an Extraordinary Case.—providing for Our Soldiers on Their Return.—the Travelling Railway Buffet.—farm Help. Sydney
Another casualty list, this time the 70th, with 676 new names. An instructive thing would be to publish the figures of each month progressively, killed, wounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Men's Duty. New Commissioner's Advice. Sydney
At the annual, dinner of the New South Wales Railway and Tramway Officers' Association last night, Mr. E. Milne, Assistant Railway Commissioner, made an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →East-west Railway. Untrue Reports. Melbourne
Mr. Archlbaid the Minister for Home Affairs to-day referred to a statement in the press that a shortage of stores involving £60,000 had been discovered in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Railway Service
Mr. Edward Milne, who was recently appointed one of the Assistant Commissioners of State Railways and Tramways, was the Principal speaker at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Recruits. Entertained by Comrades
There was a very large muster of tramway men at the Foresters' Hall, Newcastle last night, when a number of employees of that department, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Legislative Assembly. More Railways. Sydney
Mr. R. D, MEAGHER, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, took the chair at half-past four o'clock this afternoon. Mr. GARDINER asked the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Railway Service
Sir,—There is just one point in Mr. Milne's speech at the annaul dinner of the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association that I would like elucidated, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tramway Men
Occaslonnlly In letters of earlier date, I have said things which un introspective reader might have interpreted as criticisms of Sydney's tram service, and the…
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