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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

119 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 6

Railway Duplication

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 2

The Railway Department has issued a minute, in which it is stated that the opening of the double line between Weral and Exeter, on the…

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Wireless on Railway Trains

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 4

The advance which has been made by American scientists in the practical application of wireless is illustrated in the successful use of wireless train…

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Drowning Fatality. Near Bong Bong Bridge

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 June 1915 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

The body of a man named Patterson or Nelson was discovered yesterday morning between "The Briars" and the Wingecarribee [?] in the vicinity of the Bong Bong…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Near Bong Bong Bridge

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 June 1915 · page 2

The body of a man named Patterson or Nelson was discovered on Thursday morning between "The Briars" and the Wingecarribee…

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Russia's Red Road to Berlin

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 June 1915 · page 3

"Far away, jerking into view and dodging like sparks of marsh-fire, were little momentary glows of fire, the flash of far guns; it was all there was to see of the battle,"…

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Boundary Road at Buxton

Robertson Advocate · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Wollondilly Shire Council a letter was read from the Nattai Shire slating that their council desired to terminate the present agreement…

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Boundary Road at Boston

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 2

At the last meeting of the [?] Shire Council a letter was read from the [?] to terminate the [?]…

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Death of Mr. H. Richardson. Tramway Commissioner

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 June 1915 · page 6

The somewhat sudden death of Mr. Harry Richardson, one of the Commissioners for Railways and Tramways, which occurred at his…

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Railways Not Paying

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 June 1915 · page 6

Tumut, Saturday.—Railway Commissioner Fraser and party arrived yesterday afternoon. He was interviewed by a committee of influential…

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Condition of Railway Tracks Stock Die at Moss Vale

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 2

Riverina stock are daily returning in thousands from the pastures in Victoria, where they were sent owing to the recent drought…

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Condition of Railway Trucks STOCK DIe at Moss Vale

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 2

Biverina stock are daily returning in thousand from the pastures in Victoria, where they were sent owing to the recent drought…

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Motor Smash

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 5

A fatal motor accident occurred at Bankstown on Saturday afternoon, the victim being Frederick Bunce, of the firm of John Bunce…

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Railway Trucks Condition. Stock Mortality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 June 1915 · page 2

Eleven hundred head of cattle arrived at Moss Vale on Wednesday last, but owing to the congestion of traffic in the local railway yards…

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Forbes-Stockinbingal Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 July 1915 · page 6

Forbes, Wednesday.—Messrs. Mahoney and Budgett, representatives of Norton Griffiths, Ltd., have established offices in town, and are…

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Railway Deviation

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 July 1915 · page 2

The work of deviating the main southern line between Picton and Mittagong has commenced at both ends. At Picton considerable…

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Motor Laundries at the Front

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 July 1915 · page 3

The latest use to which the automobile has been put by the warring armies of Europe is that of a laundry for the field hospital corps. The…

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N.S.W. Government Railways and Tramways. Since of the Chief Commissioner, Sydney, 29th June, 1913. The Under Secretary for Finance and Trade, Sydney

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 27 July 1915 · page 2

Sir,—with reference to the attached papers and the representations made by Mess[?], John Bridge and Co., Ltd, in later dated 10th instant, relative to the carriage of wool…

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Damaged Wool Consignments. Railway Commissioners Attitude

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1915 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

We have been requested by John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Sydney, to publish the sub joined correspondence:— Sydney, 10th June. 1915…

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