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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

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The Tramways. Report of the Inquiry Board

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 November 1906 · page 6

The Railway Commissioners have received the report of the board appointed to investigate complaints by tramway men. The board consisted of…

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Female Bridge Players

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 5

In the opinion of "Sigma," of the "Daily Chronicle," women rarely play well, and they are almost invariably bad losers. "A woman who reached the…

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To the Jung-frau. an Alpine Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 5

The success of the Alpine railways, notably, of those around Interlaken, encouraged Mr Guyer Zeller, an engineer of Zurich; to venture a railway to the…

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Goulburn-Sydney Road Race

Robertson Advocate · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 2

The big event of the cycling world, the animal Goulburn-Sydney road race of the League of New South Wales Wheelmen, will take place to-morrow. The race is…

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Cycling Road Race

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 November 1906 · page 2

The annual road race, under, the, League of Wheelmen, from Goulburn to Sydney, was held on Saturday, and resulted in a win for B. H. Jeffray of…

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Shocking Railway Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 1

An accident happened on Tuesday morning at Wollongong railway station, when William Gilbertson, guard of a goods train, had both his legs severed…

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Express Train Wrecked

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 December 1906 · page 3

A serious railway diseaster, the victime to which inclueded two railway magnates, has occurred in the State of Virginia, U.S.A…

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Road Improvements. Road from Sutton Forest via Exeter to Barber's Creek

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 December 1906 · page 3

The Hon. W. McCourt, M.L.A., has handed as the following the publication:—"Public Works Department, Sydney, 29th Nov., 1906. Sir,—With…

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A Lost Crown. Disappears From a Church. Tale of Marauding Motorists

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 December 1906 · page 5

The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 29th August:— A crown which was constructed at a cost of L20,000 when the Pope decreed…

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Sandy Creek-Wombeyan Caves Road

The Southern Mail · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 2

The following official communication has been received by Mr. W. M'Court, M.L.A., and forwarded to us for publication:— Public Works Department, Sydney, 11th…

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Pandy Creek-Wombeyan Caves Road

Robertson Advocate · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 2

The following official communication has been received by Mr.W. M'Court, M.L.A., and forwarded to us for publication:— Public Works Department, Sydney, 11th…

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Big Engineering. Railway Across Salt Lake

The Southern Mail · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 4

Great Salt Lake, in the Mormon State of Utah, is 70 miles long by 48 wide in its maximum dimensions. Its extent and the lie of the ranges which…

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Motor Car Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 December 1906 · page 3

A fatal motor car accident occurred an Lapstone Hill, just beyond Enu Plains, on Saturday afternoon. Four gentlemen, Messrs. Alexander,…

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The Southern Morning Train

Robertson Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

City business people who go south for the hot months, and make More Vale, Powra and Mittagong their temporary home during summer, and week end tourists who…

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The Southern Morning Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 2

City business people who go south for the hot months, and make Moss Vale, Bowral, and Mittagong their temporary home during summer, and…

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Early Morning Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 5

The Hon. W. McCourt, M.P., has kindly forwarded as the following for publication :—"Office of the Railway Commissioners Sydney, 19th December, 1936—Sir,—With…

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Run over by a Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 4

BATHURST, Sunday.—An employee at the Bathurst Railway Gasvorke, Joseph Edwards, met with a terrible accident at the railway…

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