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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1913

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Motor Car for Hire

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

Mr. Mick Carroll, who for a long while has been in charge of one of Mr T. Bowen's cars, has purchased a 1218 h.p. Clement-Bayard car, which he…

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Railway Employees Beware

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

The Railway Commissioners have adopted drastic regulations with regard to drunkenness on the railways of the State. They have been found…

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Romance of a Train Wreck

The Western Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 2

Smith B. Bussell, sixty-nine, a retired capitalist, and Miss Gertrude M. Kerr, twenty-three, a music teacher, both of Qreensburg, Indiana, cloped to New…

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Main Roads Vote

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 4

Addressing the Oberon Shire Council, Mr. Griffith Minister for Work, explained that the £250,000 which had been put on the estimates for the Main…

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Long Motor Tour

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. C. Cadell and family during the holidays motored from Dubbo to Kempsey and back. Leaving Dubbo on the Sunday before Xmas Day…

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Decentralisation and Railway Freights

The Wellington Times · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 6

It is a significant fact that decentralisation is one of the prominent features of the policy which has been announced by Mr. Beeby, on behalf of the Third…

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Railway Returns

The Wellington Times · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 6

The people of Wellington travelled, more by rail during the year 1912 than during any previous year. According to the returns issued by the station-master…

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Motoring to Sydney

The Cobar Herald · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 5

On Thursday morning Dr. Letcher, Mrs. Letcher and family left for Sydney per motor car. Trangie was looked forward to for the first…

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The Cross-country Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 4

Mr. G. H. Taylor has received a letter from the office of the Mudgee "Guardian," stating that the Public Works Committee will take evidence…

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Railway Rifle Club

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 January 1913 · page 2

The re-formation of the "Wellington Rifle Club was begun at a meeting on Friday. Forty members were enrolled, find it is expected that the new club will…

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Open Column Those Railway Gates. To the Editor

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 2

Sir,-- Kindly allow me space in your valuable columns to voice the sentiment of a number of others, who are aggrieved at the gate being on the…

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Clearing Sale on the Cobbora Road

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 January 1913 · page 5

The clearing sale to be conducted at "Lyndhurst," on the Cobbora-road, on Saturday, 1st February, is under instructions from the executors of the late Mrs…

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Open Column Bourke Road Railway Gates. To the Editor

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 4

Sir, -- I read a letter which appeared in your last issue re the above. I can endorse what your correspondent writes. I frequently travel west of Dubbo and…

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Another Motor Car

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 2

Another privately owned motor car has arrived in Dubbo. It is the property of Mr. C. Dear, tailor, of Macquarie-street. She is a compact little…

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King Alphonso's Motor Has Wireless

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

A deputation from the Spanish Wireless Telegraph Company recently waited on King Alfonso to beg him to accept a magnificent motor-car to which…

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A Busy Railway Station

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 4

Very few people reales what a busy railway station Dubbo possesses It is surprising the number of trains -- passenger, goods and stock -- dealt…

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Popular Railway Pastime

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 8

For several months casks of liquor consigned to the country have been found to be empty on arrival at their destination. Complaints have been…

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The Motor Act

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 8

This might probably interest some of our readers: -- At the Bathurst police Court recently a person was charged with having ridden a motor cycle…

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Furious Motor Driving. Problem In-paris

The Western Herald · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 6

The question of the regulation of traffic in the streets of Paris is always with us (said the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" on October 3)…

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Australasian Railway Rifle Clubs Association

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 January 1913 · page 5

The value of the Australasian Railway Rifle Clubs Association from the standpoint of au auxiliary to Commonwealth defence is being fully recognised. Mr…

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