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Railways, roads & transport, 1899

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Berry Progress Association. a Multitude of Matters. Roads, .Streets and Footpaths. Ward Boundaries Disuussed

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 2

THE monthly meeting was held on Thursday night. There were present, Messrs. F. Towers (President). Q. W. Osborne, (secretary), A.S. Gaeden, J. Ritchie, H. L. Lovegrove, W. Lord,…

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A Motor Car Record

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1899 · page 4

FAST driving is becoming a craze in France. M. Camile Jen[?]y, the [?] of the system of electrical provision, says the…

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Barrengarry Factory Road

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 2

The following official correspondence has been forwarded us:— Department of Public Works Sydney 22nd August 1890…

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New South Wales Government Railways and Tramways

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 September 1899 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners' Annual Report to 30th June last has just reached us. It will be pleasing to those who watch the progress of the colony to know that there is an improvement on…

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Wandella Road

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 8 September 1899 · page 2

THE secretary of the Wandella Progress Committee has handed us the following letter received by Mr. H. Clarke, M.P., in reply to the petition…

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The Kangaroo River Road Department of Public Works Sydney, 11th September, 1899

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 2

Date of letter under reply—28th July last, addressed to the Road Superintendent, Moss Vale, by the Kangaroo Valley Progress Association:…

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The Kangaroo River Road

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 4

Mr. Campbell has also received from the Works Department a reply to a letter addressed by the Kangaroo Valley Progress Association to the Road…

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Noxious Weeds on Public Roads

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 2

The Minister for Works (Mr. O’Sullivan) has issued a minute to the effect that imperative instructions should be given to rood superintendents…

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Noxious Weeds on Public Roads

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 28 September 1899 · page 2

The Minister for Works (Mr. O’Sullivan) has issued a minute to the effect that imperative instructions should [?] given to road superintendents…

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Noxious Weeds on Public Roads

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

The Minister for Works has issued a minute the effort that imperative instructions should be given to road superintendents to order the maintenance men under their command to clear…

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The American Locomotives for English Railways

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 3

The New York Tribune gives prominence to the fact that twenty enginess had been shipped for the Midland Railway Company. It says: Bo h the English and the French…

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Road From Upper Kangaroo River to Jamberoo

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 2

At a meeting of the Jamberoo Council lass week correspondence, dated July 28. was read from the Kangaroo Valley Progress Committee asking Council’s…

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A Busy Railway Man

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 1

Mr. F. W. Webb, the chief mechanical engineer of the London and North-western Railway Company, whose headquarters for this description of…

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A Busy Railway Man

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 5 October 1899 · page 1

Mr. F. W. Webb, the chief mechanical engineer of the London and North western Railway Company, whose headquarters for this description of…

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Harper's Creek Bridge

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2

The following official correspondence has been forwarded us:— Department of Public Works, Sydney 29th September, 1889…

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The Road Vote

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2

IN connection with Mr, Raids criticis[?] on the proposal of the Government 16 increase the road vote Mr O’Sullivan points out that the action is merely a…

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Adventures of the Road

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 1

While Mr. J. L. Thompson, Government Instructor in Agriculture was returning by conch from Grcnfell, where he had been judging farms, he…

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Roads and Brigades

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

THE new Ministry if it manages to carry out the programme foreshadowed by its members when before their constituents for re election will deserve to be known in…

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The Coat of the Cape to Cairo Railway

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 4

Some interesting figures are given by Mr. Stead in the “Windsor Magazine” as to the cost of the Cape to Cairo railway. He says—…

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Road to the Suspension Bridge

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 18 October 1899 · page 2

Alderman Peak reported to the Nowra Council on Monday that the foot-track leading to the suspension bridge at Nowra Creek was in a bad state. Some stones…

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