Fire Brigade Funds Alleged Irregular Methods. Payment for Railway Tickets. a Bootmaker's Allegations. Interesting Evidence Before Royal Commission
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 9
The Royal Commission (Acting Judge Edmunds) appointed to inquire into the expenditure of public funds by the Fire Brigades Board and the Board of Fire Commissioners,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accident at a Railway Station. Katoomba
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 7
Another accident occurred at the railway station on Saturday, when a moving truck struck and caught the wheel of a cart, pulling a horse and the sulky, to which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stoem at Glen Innes. Dangerous Floods. Motorists' Exciting Experience. Glen Innes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 10
On Saturday afternoon and night a terrific storm swept over Glen Innes and district. Rain fell in torronls for a couple of hours. An inch and a half was rocorded locally; whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Strategic Weakness. Interstate Railway Systems. Major-general Hoad's Views. Possibilities of Attack
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 10
"The railways of New South Wales disclose a strategical weakness owing to their lack of intercommunication." Major-General Hoad, chief of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Casualties. Pony Collides with Tram
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 7
Robert MacCullum 14, living with his parents at Rowley-street, Camperdown, was treated at the Sydney Hospital last night for severe lacerations to the right leg. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Accident. Farmer Seriously Injured. Adelaide
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 10
A shocking railway accident occurred on the North line near Mount Bryan on Thursday. The Broken Hill express ran down F…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Disastrous Railway Collision. Passenger Carriages Telescoped. Many People Killed and Injured. Soldiers Carry on Rescue Work. Eleven Bodies Recovered. Cardiff
The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 1
A dreadful smash occurred on the railway at Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, to-day. A coal train crashed into a passenger train bound for London, and which was filled with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Dying Kick. Paddington Council's Last Protest. Extension of the Tram Section
The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
Paddington is still considerably exercised over the length of the first penny tram section on the eastern suburbs lines. The following letter from the Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident
The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 3
A train of coal trucks was running down the gradient to the Adamstown Station yesterday afternoon when the brakes refused to act. The trucks jumped the runaway points…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bellevue Hill to the Railway
The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
The retiring aldermen of Paddington were fairly unanimous last night in the expression of a desire for a more direct tram service from Believue Hill to the railway than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Brigades' Commission. a Letter to the Chairman. Use of Official Motor Cars. Trips to Cronulla and Liverpool
The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 5
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the administration of the Fire Brigades Acts heard further evidence at the Chief Secretary's Department to-day. Mr. Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Country. Illabo-tumbarumba Railway
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
JUNEE, Monday.--A large and intentional meeting was held at Nangus on Saturday to agitato for the construction of a railway from Illabe to Tumbarumba. The speakers declared…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Land. State Policy Speech. Mr. Nielsen at Yass. the New Legislation. Passing of the Freehold. No More Large Estates. Railways and Settlement "Fair and Reasonable" Compensation
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 7
YASS, Monday.--Mr. Nielsen,. Minister for Lands, who delivered his policy speech tonight at the Mechanics' Institute, Yass, was listened to by an audience which did not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Treated Like Schoolboys." Chief Commissioner and Paddington Trams. "Worse Than the Other Fellows."
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 8
The Paddington Council last night had under review the action of the Chief Railway Commission in regard to the extension of the penny sections of the various trams running into and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Company's Steamer Stranded. Passengers Rescued by Lifeboats
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 7
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The Great Central Railway Co.'s steamer Lincoln has been stranded in a fog on Hasborough Sands, Cromer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Congestion at the Railway. Only One Weighbridge at Redfern
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
Much delay and inconvenience was caused at the Sydney goods yard yesterday morning owing to there being only one weighbridge in operation. On Saturday one of the two bridges in the yard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellevue-hill to Railway
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
Last night the Paddington Council approved of a motion by Ald. Dillon, that a letter be written to the Railway Commissioners, asking them to connect the Bellevue-hill tramway with the railway tram service at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silverton Tramway Men. Demand for All-round Increases
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--The Silverton Tramway Employees' Association sent the following ultimatum to the general manager, Mr. Charles Elley, this morning:--…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sulky and Tram Collision
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 8
At about 9.30 last night Robert M'Callum (14), living in Rowley-street, Camperdown, was driving in a sulky with a friend along George- street West, breaking in a young pony. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Labor. Railway Sawmillers. Unions at Variance. Rival Wages Board Claims
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 4
Mr. F. A. A. Russell presided at the first meeting of the Government Railways and Tram ways (Sawmillers) Board, which was held yesterday afternoon at the Railway Commissioners…
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