The Tramway Trouble
A mass meeting of the members of the Tramway Employees' Union was held on Thursday night, when it was decided by 1420 votes to 32…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
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The Tramway Crisis
The deputation from the Tramway Employees' Union respecting the special officer system waited on the Railway Commissioner on Tuesday afternoon. The members of the…
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An accident of a serious character occurred on Tuesday night, when the Melbourne express was entering Benalla station. An old lady named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramway Strike SYDNEY
The situation as regards the strike is still undecided, but more hopeful of settlement. Sydney Labor Council met again this morning…
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On Friday last, at 10 a.m., the unionist employees on the Sydney, Newcastle, and Broken Hill tramways went out on strike, leaving…
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The Centenary Hall was the spot around which the interest exhibited in the tramway strike circled on Wednesday morning. The mass meeting of the strikers which it had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wombeyan Jenolon Caves Road
The Public Work Department wrote to the Mnlwaree Shire [?] that the Minister had approved of the road from Jenolan to Wombeyan Caves being graded…
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The earnings of the railways and the tramways for the year ended June 30 amounted to £5,965,128, an increase of £338,021 on the previous year. After…
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Reports having reached the railway authorities that drinking had taken place at some of the railway refreshment rooms by railway men, special…
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Recently reports reached the railway authorities that certain employees were in the habit of drinking at local refreshment rooms, Inquiries were made, with the…
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The coroner concluded the inquiry at Grange on Thursday into the circumstances surrounding the death of a newly-born male child found near the Bloomtield railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Furious Motorists. Police on Motocycles. the Anti-speed Squad
Motocycles will be used by the police department to run down speeding chauffeurs (says the Chicago "Inter-Ocean" of 3rd May). Chief Shippy…
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Mr. Braithwaite, the Government grader, who is to locate a suitable road between the Wombeyan and Jenolan Caves, arrived in Goulburn on Monday, and the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Railway Returns
We are in receipt of the annual report of the Railway Commissioners for the year ended June 30th, 1908. In the following particulars which we take from the report it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn-Sydney Road Race
The Goulburn to Sydney road race will take place on September 19, The distances to Ashfield, where the race will terminate, is 131 miles No…
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At Goulburn on Saturday afternoon, at the crowd was returning from a football match, a sensational occurrence took place close to the railway [?]saing, whish might…
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We may expect that when the time comes for the consideration of some larger scheme of national management our present railway proprietors and…
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On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Perkins, wife of Dr. Perkins, of Marrickville, was knocked down by a tram in Pits street, nearly opposite…
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Some friction has arisen in several adjoining municipalities owing to the manner in which the respective councils have kept in order or neglected their own side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public and Private Roads. to the Editor
Sir,—As it may interest some of your numerous readers to understand the position and powers of shire councils in relation to the roads vested in them by the Local…
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