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Railways, roads & transport, 1912

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Train Wrecked. Six Passengers Killed. Blazing Cars Down Em. Bankment. New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 2

At Sharon (North Dakota) a Great Northern railway train was wrecked last night. Six persons were killed and thirteen injured. The disaster…

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Perilous Predicament Explosion in a Motor Boat. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 2

Three men named M'Donald, Richards and Trigg were out on Hobson's Bay in a motor boat when, an explosion occurred, blowing a hole in the side and…

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Railway Accident

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

Six passengers were killed and twelve injured on the Great. Northern line in America, o[?]ing derailment of the train…

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"Undemocratic." Railwaymen's Drastic Resolution. Union Leaders Reprimanded. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

At a mass meeting of railwaymen at Swansea it was unanimously, resolved that the union executives had broken all Democratic rules in…

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Stock Owners' Association Land Appeal Court and Railway Matters Criticised

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 3

At the regular monthly meeting of the N. S. Wales Stock Owners' Association held last week, the President, Mr. J. M. Atkinson, occupied the chair…

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Wireless Inspected. Reconnaisances by Aeroplane. Tripoli

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

Marconi has inspected the wireless stations at Tobruk, Derna and Benghazi and is satisfied with the efficiency. Rough weather prevents aeroplane…

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Motoring Fatality. Broken Legs and Scalding. Deniliquin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

The motor accident which occurred at Baratta-bridge, 23 miles west of Deniliquin, last Friday morning, has resulted in the death of Mr. Thomas…

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Motor Cur and Cycle Collide REV. E. F. Waddy Injured. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

A collision occurred at Moore Park to-day between a motor-car containing four people and a motor cycle ridden by the Rev. E. F. Waddy…

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Roads Without Dust

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 4

Roads that make no dust! What a luxury! Men of the older generation only hoped to see such roads in. Paradise—when they got there. But…

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The P.M.G. Trip in Aeroplane. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 2

The Australian aviator Hart added to his reputation to-day by taking Mr. Frazer, P.M.G., and his wife for a flight in his aeroplane at Penrith…

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Girl's Remarkable Escape Jumps From Full-speed Express Train. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 2

A little girl, Rita Salmon, to-day jumped from an express train going at full speed through Richmond station She rolled along the platform for a…

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Queen Land Railway Wash-away Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 2

The Commissioner for Railways has received a telegram from Maryborough stating that four drains of the line on the Wetheron Flats were…

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Tarcutta Street Railway Crossing

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 2

Several applications have been made to the Railway Commissioners, with regard to the inconvenience occasioned at the Tarcutta Street Railway…

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Railway Workshop Workers a Minimum Wage. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 5

The Arbitrator has awarded the…

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Railway Workers. Instalment of Permanent Hands

The Worker · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 9

The examination of 774. railway employees with five years' service before the close of 1910, and who had been engaged as supernumeraries has been…

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The Day Labor System in N.s.w. Works Minister and Railway Construction Workers

The Worker · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 12

In reply to reflections on his administration of the day labor system on the (North Coast railway construction, N.S.W. Works Minister Griffith has addressed a…

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Tramway Trust's Employees

The Worker · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 27

The tramway trouble has been postponed once again. Something is radically wrong with the leadership of the tramway men. Every two or three months the…

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Inconvenient Crossing. Proposed New Road Under Viaduct

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

A long while ago the Wagga Municipal Council called the attention of the Railway Commissioners to inconvenience caused to traffic between…

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Tram Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

While descending William-street at a steep and narrow point this morning, a loaded tramcar collided with a lorry across the line, and the…

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Tumbarumba Railway. Men Ready to Commence Work. a Temporary Hitch

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

The first sod of the new railway from Wagga to Tumbarumba should have been already turned, As a matter of fact a large body of workmen…

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