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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1922

68 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 4

The Capital Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 June 1922 · page 1

A suggestion has been made, we understand, by Mr. Austin Chapman, M.P., that the residents of the district should begin another…

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The Nelligen Road in a Shocking State

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 5

Probably no road down south carries mow traffic than that from Braidwood to Nelligen. Amongst other things it is the main…

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The Nerriga Road. To the Editor of the "Dispatch."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 7

Sir,—I have read the remarks of Rev. Father Vaughan to your reporter re Nerriga road from Tomboye to Nerriga. I have recently been over…

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Railway Freights

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 7

The Minister for Railways has promised relief to secondary rural industries in the carriage of produce…

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Drovers' Railway Passes

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 2

Mr. Richard Moore, Senr., has been endeavouring through Mr. Rutledge, M.L.A., to induce the Railway Commissioners to consider the matter of allowing a free pass…

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Shire Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 July 1922 · page 2

The engineer, Mr. J. J. Muir, reported at Thursday's meeting of the Shire Council as follows:— "Inspected roads at Nerriga end…

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Federal Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 July 1922 · page 2

The Bateman's Bay Progress Association decided at its last meeting to ask the Braidwood Progress Association to agitate for the proposed…

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Railway Strike in U.s.a

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1922 · page 7

President Harding stated that he will take control of both the railways and urines of the United States if the necessary men are…

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The Railways

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 2

The Minister for Railways is in favor of cheaper fares on trams on Sundays. The building of locomotives for the Railway Department…

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Canberra-jervis Bay Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 2

Mr. Irwin, manager of the Bank of N.S.W., has just received from the State Railway Department surveys of the various proposed routes for…

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Sensational Motor Smash

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 6

A sensational motor smash occurred in Goulburn late on Thursday night, resulting in the occupants sustaining severe shock and the cars…

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Lower Railway Charges

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · page 7

The Railway Commissioners hope to be able to soon make at least some reduction in freights and fares. This hope is based on the promise of the…

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Proposed Braidwood-bateman's Bay Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 2

Messrs. J. Perkins and J. Bailey, Ms.L.A., have forwarded us the folling from the Under-Secretary, Public Works Department, under date…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1922 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dalglish were returning to their home on Saturday by car, after spending the day in Goulburn, when the car, driven by…

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Shire Roads Flood Damages

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 August 1922 · page 4

"The general damage over all the roads has been extensive, and it will take time and patience to restore them to…

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Jervis Bay-Canberra Railway. To the Editor of the "Dispatch."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 August 1922 · page 5

Sir,—In last Friday's issue of the "Dispatch" you state that I claim to know a route of an easier grade for the above railway from Braidwood…

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Trampled to Death

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1922 · page 3

George Griffen, a farmer, of Parkville, near Scone, was trampled, to death by his horse last week. He was riding down a slippery bank…

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Stock on Shire Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 2

For some time past there has been considerable doubt regarding the power of a Shire Council to permit stock to depasture on public roads…

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Trams or Motors?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 7

The Government has definitely decided that motor buses shall not be restricted from competition against the trams. The result of this…

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Open Column. It is to be always understood that newspapers do no necessarily endorse the views expressed by correspondents, who are fairly entitled to criticism in all public matters.—Editor. Tharwa Bridge. (To the Editor.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 2

Dear Sir,—I think it would be a pity to let a local matter of so much importance as the the Tharwa Bridge, spanning the Murrumbidgee River, go unoticed without…

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