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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

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The Dubbo-Narromine Road Record Once More Lowered

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

IN view of the presentation of a cash trophy in the local Cycle and Motor Club by Mr. G. W. Bell, of Narromine, which it has been decided to allot to the wheelman making the best road…

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Cycling and Motoring

The Western Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 4

Iver Lawson, the crack American cyclist who has been racing in the Commonwealth for the past three or four months, left for America by the…

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The Commissioners and the Railways. Fewer Cheap Trains to be Run

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 3

REPLYING to a deputation to the Railway Commissioners on Thursday, Mr. Kirkcaldie said with regard to the cheap trains to Sydney the Commissioners intended not to run them so…

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Peculiar Mishap on the Railway. Staff Failure

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

ON Friday evening the up-mail train was over an hour late in touching Dubbo, owing to a peculiar mishap at Narromine. The staff mechanism at Narromine got out…

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Railway Extensions. Line to Collarendebri

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

IT is announced that the Government intend to proceed with the railway from Barren Junction to Walgett and from Barren Junction towards Collarendsb[?] Tenders are to be called this…

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Dubbo Railway and Progress Association. Meeting of Committee

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Dubbo Railway and Progress Association was held at the Town Hall on Monday evening. Present: The president (Mr. G. H. Taylor, J.P.) in the chair…

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Railway and Progress Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

A special meeting of the Dubbo Rail way and Progress Association was held at the Town Hall on' Monday night, the President (Mr. G. H. Taylor) in tha chair. There…

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The Gilgandra-curlewis Railway Visit of the Public Works Committee Inquiry Into Rabbit Destruction

The Castlereagh · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 4

As arranged the Public Works Committee visited Gilgandra on Monday and Tuesday last for the purpose of procuring evidence as to the…

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Another Train Mystery. Unknown Woman's Leap

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 7

A mysterious railway tragedy was investigated by the Burton-on-Trent Coroner yesterday, and left unsolved. On Monday evening, the 27th…

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Proposed Railway to Cobborah. Parliamentary Public Works Committee Enquiry

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works proposals sat at the Court House on Wednesday morning to consider the proposal for a railway to Cobborah and Coonabarabran…

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Mudgee-Cobbora Railway Proposal. And the Alternative Routes

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 4

WHEN the Minister for Works (Hon. C. A. Lee) on Dec. 7th last proposed "That it be referred to the Parliamentary Standing on Public Works to consider and report on the expediency…

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Mudgee to Gobborah Railway. Evidence at Dubbo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works sat at the Dubbo Court House on Wednesday to take evidence concerning the proposed line from Dubbo to…

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Railway Fatality. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 4

A man Named Charles Flood, aged 85, was crashed to death between two trucks at Parramatta yesterday morning, and substained shocking internal injuries…

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Proposed Railway to Cobbora. Works Committee Enquiry

The Wellington Times · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 1

The Public Works Committee on Friday took evidence in Wellington in connection with the proposed line from Mudgee, Gulgong and Dunedoo…

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John Bridge & Co. LTD., report !

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 3

Sheepskins.—Quotations: Merinos three quarter to full woolled (free and lihgt 8¼d to 9d, h[?]avy 7½d to 8¼d ; h[?]lwoolled (free and light) 7½d to 8¼d…

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Railway Associations' Trouble. Decision of the Registrar of the Arbitration Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 3

THE Registrar in Arbitration on Monday refused the application by the Paint[?]s, Engineers, Coachmakers, Railway C[?] and Waggon makers and Wheelwright[?], United Laborers…

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The Mudgee-Cobborah Railway. Proposed Deviation near Gulgong

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 2

AT a meeting at Wilbertree on 10th instant it was resolved to apply that the proposed line from Mudgee to Cobborah on leaving Mudgee should proceed via Bombira and Pipeclay Creek…

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Work for the Railway and Progress Association

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 3

DESPITE the dictum of a prominent member of the Railway and Progress Association that it is no part of the Association's duty to "come to loggerheads with the local Council"--in which…

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Rabbit Traps on Railway Lines. Disapproved of by the Commissioners

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 2

RECENTLY the Secretary of the local P. P. Board (Mr. A. Tyers Wood) was instructed to apply to the Railway Commissioners for the placing of double rabbit pit traps on the railway line…

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Wilbetree Railway League

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 2

The following extract from the WESTERN POST shows that other centres than ours, are stirring in regard to railway matters;—"" A well-attended meeting of the residents…

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