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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1920

933 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 13 of 47

Perth Tramway Men

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 2

An increase in wages of one shilling per day all round has been granted to the Perth tramway men…

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Perdriau's Aeroplane. Second Visit to Tamworth. Up-to-Date Commercial Travelling Chinaman Goes Aloft

Daily Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 1

People of the North and North-West heard much at the beginning of this year about the Perdrian Rubber Co.'s enterprise in being the first Australian…

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Motor Fares to Tamworth Races

Daily Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

The motor car fare to the Tamworth Racecourse has been fixed at 2/6 instead of 2/. The increase was made at the request of the licensed car…

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Trams for Tamworth

Daily Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

Ald. Bourne writer:— In writing, as I have been doing, I have followed the principle of suggestion, which is the system followed by…

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U.S. Railway Strike Men Returning. No Connection with I.W.W. VANCOUVER

Daily Observer · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

A New York message reports that the railway strike seems to be breaking up. Thousands of men are returning to work…

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Railways Handed Back Nationalisation Failure. America's Great Experiment

Daily Observer · Wednesday 21 April 1920 · page 6

America has this week closed down a great experiment in nationalisation. On January 1, 1918. the Government, as a matter of war policy, took over…

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Railway Policy. Cross-country Lines. To be Completed. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Wednesday 21 April 1920 · page 2

The Minister for Works stated to-day that he intended to finish railway lines which were at present uncompleted, particularly the…

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The Perdriau Aeroplane in Tamworth

Daily Observer · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 1

The Perdrian Rubber Co.'s aeroplane in charge of Lieut. Butler as pilot, and Mr. T. J. Bradstreet, Northern representative, has become a familiar object…

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The Suspension Bridge

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 2

A petition wan rend at the meeting of the Municipal Council on Tuesday night from 25 ratepayers of Danger Village, asking the Council not to…

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The Mountain Road

Manilla Express · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 5

IT was very difficult, this mountain road, from the seaside-walk on which I had been accustomed to take my evening stroll for so many seasons. For…

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Gates on Roads. (Information complied by the Clerk of the Namol Shire Council.)

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 2

A Council has control over an roads in the area that are public roads. A public road as distinct from a private road or right-of-way is a…

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Importing a Commissioner. for Victorian Railways. London

Daily Observer · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 2

Mr. Robinson, Agent-General for Victoria, has received 150 applications for the State Railway Commissionership, and has combed out six candidates…

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Motoring & Cycling

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 4

The general run of tool kits which are sent out with motor vehicles are a delusion and a share. Particularly is this tho case with sonic makers. We…

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Railway Picnic

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 2

The annual picnic of the railway employees of the railway employees of the North-West was held at Moree on Saturday last when special trains. carrying the employees…

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Goonoo Road

Daily Observer · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 6

A complimentary social to lady members of the Goonoo Goonoo Road Soldiers' Farewell and Welcome Home Association was held in the local hall on…

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Trams for Tamworth

Daily Observer · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 1

Mr. C.A. Harcourt, of Tamworth, [?] I have been reading with great inter[?]t letters and information…

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Perdriau's Aeroplane Visits Coonabarabran To-day

Daily Observer · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 2

The Perdrian Rubber Coy's aeroplane, in charge of pilot Lieutenant J. H. [?] left Tamworth at 4.40 yesterday afternoon in fine weather, for Gunnedah…

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Tricky Huns. War Material Quest. Commission's Inquiries Purposely Hampered. Secret Aeroplane Construction. LONDON

Daily Observer · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 2

Reuter's Paris correspondent wires:—The "Petit Parisien" says that General Masterman, head of the Allied Commision on Air Control in Berlin,…

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The Wee Waa-pilliga Road

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 2

The Wee Waa Progress Association wrote to the Shire Council directing attention to the bad state of the two sand patches in the Wee Waa-Pilliga…

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A Myall Valley Road Matter

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 2

Mr. H. W. Maunder, Myall Valley, wrote to the Namoi Shire Council asking that the stones be cleared from the new surveyed road on…

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