Railway Commissioners. Deputations at Newcastle. District Improvements
Mr. J. Fraser, Deputy Chief Commissioner for Railways, and Mr. E. Milne, Assistant Commissioner, accompanied by Mr. E. Kendall, engineer-in-chief of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1916
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Hospital Railway Contributions
A deputation from the board of management of the Newcastle Hospital, headed by Mr. H. J. Cannington, representing the president, asked if arrangements…
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The public sympathises with the Railway Commissioners on account of present financial limitations. Mr. Fraser, the Deputy Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City of Purple Dreams. Chapter Xxxi. Trampled Canons
If Mrs. Otis had-expected to inflict a shock she triumphed amply. If she had hoped to witness its manifestation she was woefully disappointed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Toronto. Proposed Railway Road
When the deputation from the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce met Mr. J. Fraser, Deputy Chief Railway Commissioner, at Newcastle on Thursday last, in reply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teralba. Five Islands Road
After many years of agitation, a commencement has been made with the construction of the road linking up Teralba with the Five Islands, and within a few…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Time-tables
The issuing of the winter time-table for the State railways again directs attention to the very unsatisfactory system which is observed in regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Economies
Although the railway revenue for the current financial year bids fair to easily beat all records the Commissioners are under orders to economise, and as…
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Nobody regrets the abandonment of the proposal, to tax railway tickets. The Chancellor of the Exchanger had estimated that the revenue from the impost…
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Sir,—When the Railway Commissioners visited Toronto on Thursday last, Mr. Fraser told the deputation of shire councillors that they must not ask for much…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Lorry Fatality. Accidental Death
An inquest was held at the Newcastle Courthouse by Sir. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, yesterday, regarding the death of Francis H. Alcock, who was killed by…
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A sensational shooting affray was reported from Long Bay late this afternoon, one man being shot dead and another wounded in such a way that little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kearsley Township. No Road Communication
Kearsley, a township provided on the leasehold system for employees of Abermain No. 2 Colliery, and others desirous of settling there is an area cut out of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District. Proposed Railway. Thornton to Aberdare Junction
The proposal to construct a railway to connect the Great Northern line, near Thornton, with the Maitland coalfield railways, near Aberdare Junction is now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →East to West Railway. Mr. Chinn's Evidence. Melbourne
At the inquiry to-day by the Royal Commission into the charges connected with the east to west railway, Henry Chinn, formerly superintending engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African Railways
The estimates of expenditure of the South African railways and harbours show that the total estimated expenditure for the financial year ending the 31st March,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Industrial Court Railway Ganger's Claim
At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday Mr. G. C. Addison Chief Industrial Magistrate, resumed the hearing of the case in which Robert Rawling, railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Road Collision
Stanley Dobell, a single man, 22 years of age, who lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dobell, in Nelson-street, Plattsburg, was fatally injured as the result of…
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Passengers who reached Newcastle last evening by the train arriving from Sydney at 5.35 brought news of a shocking accident at the northern end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Railways and War
Railways are an essential factor in national defence; and the masterly manner in which the French railway administrations performed their task in the early days of the war, deserves…
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