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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

104 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 6

Sensation at Broken Hill. Train Attacked by Turks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 2

A sensational outrage occurred on Friday morning three miles from Broken Hill. Two men, supposed to have been. Turks, fired…

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The Motor Tax

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 2
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

MOTORISTS are advised that they can now pay the tax imposed by the paternal Government to Senior-sergeant Wood at the local police station. As…

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Railway Timetable Changes

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2

A NUMBER of alterations in the railway time-table are contemplated, to take effect from about 1st March. The Cooma up and down mail trains…

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Railway Matters. Time-table Changes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2

A NUMBER of alterations in the railway time-table are contemplated, to take effect from about Ist March…

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Motor Car Tax Collection

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 2

The total amount of the motor car tax recieved since January 4, the day the collection of the tax was commenced is £2950. The amounts…

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Southern Railway Alterations

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 5

Dame rumor has been very busy lately regarding train alterations, in the southern district, but at the present moment nothing can be…

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Railway Alterations

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 2

Dame rumor has been very busy lately regarding train alterations in the southern district, but at the present moment nothing can be…

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Motor Feat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 3

A MOTOR car carrying a fishing party, last Saturday night essayed the feat of going down Mount Werong, some 18 miles from Taralga, and a distance of…

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Railway Economy. Fewer Trains

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 2

Action has been taken by the Railway Department in accordance with the decision of the Chief Railway Commissioner to reduce the…

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The Railway. Fewer Trains

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 2

Action has been. taken by the Railway Department in accordance with the decision of the Chief Railway Commissioner to reduce the…

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Science Notes. Train Wireless Telephony

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 January 1915 · page 3

For many years Mr. H. F. Millener, experimental engineer of the Union Pacific Railway (U.S.A.), has been working on wireless telephone apparatus…

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Robbery in a Train

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 3

While the north-western mail was passing through a tunnel about a mile from Newcastle on Saturday night Miss Edith Logan, of…

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Proposed Railway Alterations. Will Be Rigidly Adhered To

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 3

A deputation from Cooma waited on the Chief Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Harper on Thursday last to protest against the proposed…

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Proposed Railway Alterations

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 2

A deputation from Cooma waited on the Chief Commissioner for Railways Mr. Harper, on Thursday last to protest against the proposed…

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Motor Tax

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 2

SENIOR- SERGEANT WOOD has received £106 for motor fees. There is still about £50 outstanding and as Saturday was the last day for paying and no grace is allowed, we…

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The Gate on Tharwa Road

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 2

We've get a gate on Tharwa Road, And now you Cookies, close it; You dared not sneak around with list, You had grit to oppose it…

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Our Railway Service

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 2

A deputation from Cooma waited on the Chief Commissioner for Railways. Mr. Harper on Thursday last to pio[?]st against the proposed…

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Windshield for Motor-cycles

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 3

Air displacement of over 30 miles per hour is spoken of as a high wind, of over 40 miles per hour as a gale, and of over 60 miles per hour as a hurricane…

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Railway Retrenchment

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 4

WITH a view to ascertaining to what extent further retrenchment can be made in, the railway service, without impairing its efficiency, heads of…

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