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Railways, roads & transport, 1918

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Hillas Creek Bridge. 'Borrow the Money'

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 2

At the Shire meeting on Saturday the Local Government Department sent a report supplied bby H. Chaston, district works…

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Train Derailed. Mountain Lines Blocked. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 3

A goods train from Springwood became divided into two parts owing to the brea[?]ge of a draw-hook while nearly a mile further on the rear…

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The Railway Alterations. Public Meeting. "Vested Interests should be Considered."

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 1

The Mayor (Ald. S. H. Dickson), presided over a public meeting on Friday night, in response to a petition, "to consider what steps…

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Those Railway Proposals

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 2

Elsewhere is a full report of the public meeting held in the Town Hall on Friday night, to consider the question of what the Railway…

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For the Young Folks. a School Girl's Letter. Trip on the Transcontinental Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 4

Here, is a letter from a school-girl who has had the long trip on the great railway recently completed neross the continent, linking up…

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The Railway Alterations. (Report continued from our front page.)

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 3

surer; and that an executive committee, consisting of the above officers and live others, be formed, live to form a quorum."…

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Self-help in Railway Construction

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

Recently the New South Wales Ministry announced that owing to shortage of funds it was unable to proceed with the construction of the…

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Cootamundra Railway Station

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

A public meeting at Cootamundra, presided over by the Mayor, strongly protested against the reported intention of the Railway Commissioners to…

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Cyclone at Bathurst. Train Held Up. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

A cyclonic storm swept through Bathurst yesterday, doing considerable damage to buildings, crops, orchards and fences, uprooting avenues of trees and…

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They New Railway Station

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

A public meeting is to be held next Monday night to petition the Railway commissioners to proceed with the erection of the new railway…

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Those Railway Stations

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

The "Cootamundra Railway Station Defence Committee," appointed at the recent public meeting, met last night, and decided to send two…

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Cootamundra Railway Station Defence Committee

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 3

The above met last night, at the Literary institute. Present, Messrs. E. Doidge (chairman), E. Laver (secretary). Ald. Stratton, Mr. J…

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Mails by Aeroplane

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 5

A[?] regular aeroplane service between New York and Chicago is prosed. It is estimated that the flight of 720 miles could be made in from six to ten hours…

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Hillas Creek Bridge

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 3

At the Shire meeting in Gundagai on Saturday, the Local Government Department sent a report supplied by H. Chaston, district,…

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The Trans-siberian Railway

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

The most interesting and vital portion of Russia's great 4,000-mile railway is the steam ferry across Lake Baikal in Central Siberia…

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Mails by Aeroplane

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

Ae regular aeroplane service between New York and Chicago is prosed. It is estimated that the night of 720 miles could be made in from six to ten hours…

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Building a Railway. [?]

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

The [?] Raliways League is a [?] sfated that…

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Railway to Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

On Friday evening last, Mr. Peter McGarry, M.L.A., assured the Leeton Progress Association that railway connection between Yanco and Leeton…

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The Railway

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

The following communications agent the above have been received by the Shire Council:--…

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Old Wheat & New. a New Dump. Railway Extension

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

All last season's wheat is now gone from Gundagai and the old dump is being dismantled to be replaced by a more…

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