Strategical Railways. Major-general Hoad's Views
Evidence was given by Major-General Hoad. before the Royal Commission on Railway Decentralisation yesterday. He confined his evidence to the value of certain railway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
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Fire Brigades Board. Royal Commission's Inquiry. Dinner at Paris House. "A Gamble in Railway Tickets."
Further evidence was taken yesterday morning by the Royal Commission (Acting-Judge Edmunds) appointed to inquire into the expenditure of public funds by the Fire Brigades Board…
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An emphatic denial has been given by the Minister for Customs to the complaints made by vendors of motor-cars in Sydney against whom writs have been issued that there has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Minister's Tramway Policy
Speaking at Lane Cove yesterday, the Minister for Works said the policy of himself and his colleagues was to open up the beautiful country around Sydney, and make it available to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Smash. Another Engine Runs Away. Coal Waggons Telescoped. Driver and Fireman Escape
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--An accident having a remarkable resemblance to that which occurred at the Central Railway Station, Sydney, on Saturday morning, took place this afternoon…
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JOHANNESBURG, Sunday Afternoon -- The conductors and motormen on the Johannesburg trams demanded the dismissal of an obnoxious inspector, and struck…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Disaster. Passenger and Coal Trains Collide. Eleven Bodies Recovered
LONDON, Monday.--A collision occurred between a passenger and a coal train on the Rhondda Valley line to-day. The carriages were telescoped, and the…
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An effort is being made by the Parramatta Council to induce the Minister for Works to widen Lennox Bridge, which is in the main thoroughfare, and is barely wide enough to allow the tram and one vehicle to pass each…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →An Aeroplane Aflame. Copenhagen
Svendens, the Danish aviator, has had a wonderful escape here. He was flying at a great height when he noticed that the machine was on fire. Flames were bursting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ring's Bridge Camp
It is to be hoped, with the fine body of keen police "seniors" we have now, that Sergeant Lucas's illness will not have the effect of allowing the camp under Ring's…
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"If you had been civil," said the magistrate, "perhaps you would not have been prosecuted." His Worship was addressing a well-dressed young man named Walter Malone,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Run Over by a Train
An open verdict was recorded by the Club Coronner at the inquest on the death of James Mack, 41, a shearer lately residing in Margaret-street. Sandringham, who was found in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall From a Bridge. Dungog
While working on the railway bridge which spans Myall Creek at Dungog, a labourer named Thomas Cahill accidentally overbalanced and fell a distance of 20ft on to a heap of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Disaster. Train Wrecked in Wales. Labor Delegates Among the Killed. Ghastly Rescue Scenes
LONDON, Monday Afternoon, -- Further particulars are to hand of the disastrous railway collision which occurred near Pontypridd, in Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Road to La Perouse
Some trouble has arisen over the proposed lighting of the Bunnerong-road to La Perfuse, owing to an objection by the Postmaster-General that the City Council were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Smash at North Sidney. Motor Car and Cyclist. Collision Due to Bad Road
A motor and cycle collision occurred at Killara, on the North Shore line, on Tuesday, and as a result Arthur Horace. a resident of St. Ives, is lying in a serious condition in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Leap From a Train. Young Man's Death. Singleton
Mr. D. M'Dougall, district coroner, held an inquest this afternoon concerning the death of Joseph Milligan, which occurred in the hospital yesterday afternoon. ThE evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →North Sydney Bridge or Tunnel. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I notice the Minister for Works paid a visit to the northern suburbs yesterday accompanied by Messrs. Cocks and Fell, Ms.L.A., and found on account of the rapid increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eastern Suburbs and the Railway. Connecting Trams Asked For
[?] Works was asked on Tuesday [?] to [?] The [?] which…
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On Saturday last the decision of the Minister for Works to ask the Chief Commissioner for Railways and the Lord Mayor to each appoint an officer to consult with an officer of the…
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