Dangerous Practice. Entering Moving Railway Carriage
In the Newtown Summons Court this morning. Bernard F. Cumming was proceeded against for entering a railway carriage while it was in motion…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1912
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State Cottage Sites. Visit of Tramway Board
The Tramway Advisory Board has arranged to visit Kensington on Friday, and on the upon selected for the erection of the proposed State cottages, go into the question of tramway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Institute Flourishing
During last year there was a considerable increase in the number of classes held in connection with the Railway institute, the total being nineteen in the principal country centres, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tram Men's Threat. Interstate Dispute. Spoiling for a Fight. Melbourne
Members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Tramway Employees' Association are eager to lay their case before the Arbitration Court, and they have passed a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Argentine Railway Trouble. Buenos Ayres, Jan. 9
Owing to the strike on the railways the Government has reinforced the garrison in order to guarantee freedom of labour, and has authorised the railway authorities to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tuesday's Proceedings. Unification Rejected. Control of the Railways. Federal Land Taxation. Hobart
After Tuesday evening's session of the In[?]state Political Labour Conference, it was [?]ficially announced that the unification mo[?]ion had been rejected by 19 to 6…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Boat Championship
The motor boat championship of Australasia, which is to be run under the auspices of the Motor Boat Club of N.S.W. on Saturday afternoon next, has attracted a lot of attention The hon. secretary, Mr. E. L…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Cycle Record. Melbourne Sydney
At 2 o'clock this morning Mr. J. A. Fair, a member of the Motor Cycle Club of N.S.W., and the first to create a record between the two capitals, will leave Melbourne, with the intention of endeavouring to lower…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railway Men Strike. Workshop Employees Idle. Perth
The bulk of 1000 railway workshop employees, comprising engineers, moulders, turners, and blacksmiths, ceased work at the locomotive workshops on Tuesday in consequence of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Our Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—This agitation for the abolition of the Commissioners and for political control of our railways is just what we might expect from a Labour Government. A prominent…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Argentine News. Wool Deteriorating. Shearing Conditions. Underground Electric Railways. Russian Colonies a Failure. Buenos Ayres, Nov. 11
Argentine wool is selling at low prices on a lax market in Europe. The Argentine wool clip has decreased as the area of arable land has increased, and it would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cleansing the City. Six More Motor Waggons
In view of the satisfactory state of the City Council's finances, the year having closed with a surplus of revenue over expenditure of approximately £20,000, the Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Casualties. Fall From the Tram
Mr. Nicholls aged 65, a retired district engineer for Goulburn, in the New South Wales Railway Department, fell from a tram in Eliz[?]beth-street yesterday, near…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hoaxing the Police. Motorist Fooled. Melbourne
A party travelling in a motor car at Bendigo to-night passed what appeared to be a man lying in the centre of the M'Ivor-road at a rather dark spo[?]. Hastening to his hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"No Back Down." Victorian Railway Men. Support Referendum Proposals. Melbourne
Mr. Hyett, secretary of the Victorian Railway Employees' Amalgamated Union, said that Victorian railway men endorsed the action of the New South Wales railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Council's Motor Waggons
The purchase of six additional motor waggons, at a cost of £8000, is recommended by the Lord Mayor. It is suggested that three of these should be used in the street…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sulky and Tram Collide. Driver Injured
A tram and a sulky collided at the corner of Petersham-street and Parramatta-road, Petersham, this afternoon. The tram caught the rear of the sulky, and jammed it and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motors for Bishops. Generous Australian in Ireland. Melbourne
Mr. Thomas O' Loughlin, son of the late Martin Loughlin, a famous Australian racehorse owner of 20 years ago, has just returned to Ballarat from Ireland. During…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tramway Mismanagement. No Cars for Racegoers
The tramway authorities gave the racing public another taste of their disregard for their convenience yesterday. A few meetings back there were no trams waiting after the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Metropolitan Railway Rifle Club
Saturday last was a busy day at Randwick range when the third round of the M.D.R.A. grade matches was fired. Metropolitan railways met the…
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