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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Mr. Watt opened the Ministerial elections campaign to-night at Essendon. He foreshadowed that the session, which is to open in a fortnight, will last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, December 5, 1913.--This year's great motor shows at Olympia leave unsettled the Question as to whether we are to get within the near future the long-promised light…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Monday.--Plans and specifications for the proposed Pine Creek to Katherine River railway are now being prepared. The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn),…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. Johnson, will definitely sever his connection with the New South Wales railways on the 17th instant. This will give him about two and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coroner held an inquest yesterday morning into the death of James Matthews, who was knocked down by a tram in Castlereagh-street, city, on December 31, and who died at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Since the stoppage of the tram service on Sunday evenings during Church hours, great inconvenience has been caused to tho general public, especially to the thousands of people…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--The State Premier to-night assured a meeting of his constituents that the check administered to the border railway proposals at the close of the last New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The annual conference of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Association began its sittings at the Trades-hall yesterday morning. Mr. H. Gallagher, president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At a meeting of the North Ryde Tramway League on Saturday night it was resolved that Mr. W. Thompson, M.L.A., be asked to request the Minister for Works to receive a deputation…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A. W. Jones, the Queensland aviator, made a successful test flight with a passenger at Cheltenham (V.) on December 23, He rose to a height of 800ft, and flew eight miles, from…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Would you be generous enough to make a correction of the report you have given of the case in which a young man (resident not in Annandale, but Woolloomooloo) named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The two-storeyed residence of Mr. C. Wilke, 64 Darling Point-road, was burnt out at about 2.30 o.clock this morning. When the alarm was given various city fire stations turned…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mr. Arthur E. Leplastrier, after a world's tour for the special purpose of noting the best moans of road-making employed in London, Paris, and American cities, believes that the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →At last night's meeting of the Petersham Council, Alderman Hordern complained of the delay in completing Parramatta-road, and suggested that the Leichhardt Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The main thoroughfare leading to the City of Sydney from the West and South is the Parramatta-road, which is joined by the Great Southern or Liverpool-road not far from Summer Hill Railway Station. At Leichhardt, the thoroughfare is flanked with prosperous retail shops, which drive a thriving trade, for the districts on both sides at this point are densely populated. The facilities for shopping, indeed, are practically equal to what obtain in the City, and quite a number of customers are attracted from other suburbs. On Friday nights the scene is a very animated one, and the amount of money which changes hands is very great…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Dear Dame Durden,-- We were so pleased when we opened the "Town and Country Journal" to read you had awarded me second-class honors for my letter and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →In the Collingbourne sub-district of Wiltshire, comprising 11 parishes, with a population of nearly 7000, not a single death has been registered since September 28 up to…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →When the Petersham Council was asked to adopt the estimates for the coming year. Alderman Hordern naturally wanted to know what they were, but when he heard the first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Told in a Railway Rest House" is the title of an interesting article in this week's issue of the "Town and Country Journal," written by Superintendent Milne. Western Division, New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Messrs. Robinson's motor garage was the scene of a destructive fire this morning and for a time the buildings in the locality were in grave danger of destruction…
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