Free Train Rides Passes for Aldermen
At to-night's meeting of the Newcastle CRY Council, Aid. Douglas will move "that the Chief Commissioner for Railways and Tramways be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1921
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Horse on the Road Menace at Goulbubn Two Women Badly Hurt GOULBURN
An accident occurred late last night at the junction of Windellima and Bungones roads, four miles from Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Railways. Brisbane
By a majority of about six to one the members of the Locomotive Engine-drivers Firemen, and Cleaners' Association have in a ballot just held, decided in favour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Railway Strike
A Berlin telegram reports that the railway trouble has been adjusted. The men accepted the Government's compromise. It is believed that the settlement was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Australian Railway Strike. Kalgoorlie
The position with regard to the railway strike, as it affects the mining industry on the goldfields, is unchanged. Following on the resolution carried by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →River Tragedy Motor Boat Swamped Many Passengers Drowned End of Picnic Excursion MELBOURNE
One of the most appalling river tragedies that has taken place in Australia, occurred at Warrnambool yesterday afternoon, when a motor launch carrying about 80 picnickers became uncontrollable, and sank in about 15 feet of water in Hopkins River. The occupants were thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Still Bigger Motor Ships
Really wonderful progress has been made of late in increasing the size of the motor ship (says "Lloyd's Weekly Summary"). "That, indeed, is one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal Railways
The history of the Northern Territory since it came under the control of the Commonwealth establishes a very strong argument for making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Railway Tickets
Alderman O'Maru told the Newcastle Council last night that 50 to 80 people ware unable to get tickets in time to catch the 8.50 train to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Notes Newcastle Motor Cycle Club
The fifth annual dinner of the Newcastle Motor Cycle Club took place at Way's cafe last Saturday night, and proved as undoubted success in all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Hotbed of Fever" Maitland's Sanitation Contractor Blames Roads
The sanitary services of West Maitland are completely disorganised and to quote the words or several aldermen at last night's council meeting the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Hardly New" Tramway Conference
For the purpose of urging upon the Government the necessity of electrifying the tramway system of the Newcastle district a conference,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Knocked to Leg" Unfinancial Wallsend Murphy's Bridge Blamed Higher Rates Wanted
It was Murphy's bridge that did it. It was bad when wages and the cost of material kept on soaring; it was bad when the flood came and did…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Hotel
In the matter of the Railway Hotel, Hunter-street West. Peter Ferguson, licensee; John Brown, owner; Tooth and Co., Ltd., lessees. Mr. Helmore appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coming of the Motor Truck
On our immense Continent the thin lines of our railway tracks are as faint as the alleged markings on Mars. Our railways radiate, out into tho wilderness, leaving vast stretches of country untouched and untapped, sparsely populated, but teeming with natural wealth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Islington's Need Railway Station Urged
In asking Hamilton Council to co-operate with Wickham Council in an endeavor to have a railway station erected at Clyde-street, Islington, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Fooling the Public" Mayfield Motors Council To Take Action
John Larkin, of Station-street, Waratah, R. R. Pearce, Wyvern-street, Mayfield, and S. McFarlane, Roe-street, Waratah, asked permission of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council Contest Mr. Grahame's Policy Tram Electrification
Mr. J. F. Grahame, who is a candidate for the vacancy in the Newcastle City Council, previously contested a neat and was narrowly defeated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Electrification
In reply to a request from Newcastle council "to urge upon the Government the necessity of electrifying the tramways of the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Outrages in Ireland. Troop Train Derailed. Bombs in Dublin. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Sinn Feiners derailed a troop train in a wild stretch of country in West Donegal, placing large boulders on the line. When the train left the rails a hundred…
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