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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1917

150 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 5 of 8

Werriwa Recruiting Train

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 June 1917 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

The Werriwa recruiting train, in charge of Lieutenant [?] with 31 of the 55 recruite obtained since it started just over a week ago on board (the remainder being on…

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Mr. Clarence Bridge. Visit to Mesopotamia

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 June 1917 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

We are asked by John Bridge & Co., Ltd., to state for the information of their clients and friends that their Mr. Clarence Bridge, accompanied by his wife and…

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Oil Tractors on Shire Roads

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Monday 18 June 1917 · page 2

In reply to the Wingecarribee shire council's letter of 7th May last asking for advice as to what steps could be taken by them to prevent…

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Oil Tractors on Shire Roads

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 June 1917 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

In reply to the Wingeearribee Shire Council's letter of 7th May lass, asking for advice as to what steps could be taken by them to present the further use of an uneightly oil…

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July Sheep Sales. 'John Bridge" Invitation

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1917 · page 2

John Bridge & Company, Limited, looking forward to the presence in Sydney of many country clients and friends on the occasion of the Sheep…

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July Sheep Sales. "John Bridge" Invitation

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 June 1917 · page 2

John Bridge & Company, Limited, looking forward to the presence in Sydney of many country clients and friends on the occasion of the Sheep…

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New Railway Travelling Predicted

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 June 1917 · page 4
Also in Robertson Advocate

What is to take the place of the steam locomotive was considered by Mr. F. W. Lancaster in a British Association paper. After nearly a…

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Capsized into the River at Bong Bong Bridge

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

An Mr. Wes. Stokes, of Bowral, was driving to Moss Vale on Saturday morning and was crossing the temporary bridge over the Bong Bong river, the horse shied and the wheel of…

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Railway Commissioners on Tour. MITTAGONG

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

The Commissioners were waited upon by the Mayor and alderman at Mettagong, who put before them the question of the m[?]ch needed and long delayed over bridge at the…

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Bong Bridge Accident. Sulky and Horse Fall Into the River Driver's Narrow Escape. Horse Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 2

From what we are able, to gather regarding a serious accident. that happened at the Bong Bong bridge, near Moss Vale, on Saturday…

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Railway Commissioners at Bowral

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1917 · page 2
Also in Robertson Advocate

At the meting of the Bowral Council on Thursday night, the Mayor (Ald. E. Davis) submitted a report giving details of an interview which the council had bad with the…

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Railway Fares and Freights

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 July 1917 · page 4

Questioned in reference to the proposal of the Railway Commissioners to meet the increased cost of the railways by raining fares and freight rates…

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Theft by Railway Porter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 July 1917 · page 2

"A more contemptible theft could not be imagined, remarked Mr. J. Smithers, S.M., at the Central Police Court, Sydney, in sentencing a railway…

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