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Railways, roads & transport, 1917

6,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

South Coast Railway Smash Commissioners' Statement. [?] From Page [?]

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

[?] by the Railway [?] calliery last night [?]during sbunting [?]…

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Land Settlement and Railway Development. Land for Soldiers Grouping and Co-operation N.S.W. Activity in Preparing Blocks

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

The N.S.W. Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) mid on Saturday that all future settlements of returned soldiers on returned solders on resumed lands or Cr wn lands, where a fair…

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Request for a Tramline. To Assict Haughton River Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

A representative deputation waited upon the Queensland Deputy Commisiner of Railways ( Mr. Pugan) just week to urge the building of a light tramway…

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Mountains of Stacked Wheat Million and a Half Bags of New Crain. Railway Statements

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 7

The latest figures supplied by the N.S W. Railway Department show that 1,406,910 bags of new wheat had been received at country railway station…

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Farmers' Movements Railway Concessions for Shows. a Queensland Agitation

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

Last year there was great indignation amongst the Queensland agriculture societies when t was announced that the Railway Department has withdrawn all…

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Deaths on the Railway Collisions and Derailment Accidents. Fettler Killed at Woy Woy

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

An accident occurred in the Woy Woy (N.S.W.) railway tunnel on Thursday, resulting in the death of a fettler named Julius Christiansen. A minor accident…

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MISADVENTURES World's Worst Railway Smash Hundreds of Persons Killed and Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

The correspondent of the "Times" (London) at Jassy, the provisional capital of Roumania, reports that a fearful accident has occurred to a train that was…

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Woman Killed by a Motor. But Saves Her Two Children

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

On Friday evening a woman named Mrs, lawson was knocked down and killed by a motor-car at parramatta (N.S.W.). Accompanied hy her two…

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Motor-Cycle Comfort Reliability, Economy, and Speed. Bennett and Barkell's Side-cars

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

The motor cycle, with its power of out-speeding the horse and annihilating distances, has done much to revolutionise country life and to bunish the loneliness…

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Railway Mystery. Paris

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

Commenting on the German war experts' insinuation that France contemplates an offensive from Belfort, the "Echo de Paris" suggests that…

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Money Short for Railways. Construction Hung Off. Nimmitabel to Bombala

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

The Nimmitabel to Bombala railway will be finished—someday. But why, nobody can say. It is a good district and deserves the railway, but the ways…

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Shifting the Harvest. Railway Department's Complaint

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

The Railway Department points out that the number of trucks of wheat on hand daily not released by the shippers is increasing at an alarming rate…

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Despatches by Motor. From Sydney to Brisbane. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 10

A Jewell, who left Sydney on Friday afternoon in n 45-h.p. six-cylinder Studebaker motor, carrying military despatches, arrived at the Brisbane Post Office shortly after 11…

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Get-wet-quick Trams

The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 6

"Coogee" writes:-- Last night tram No. 1404 was on its way from Coogee to Sydney fully loaded. At the Kensington junction came the cry,…

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East-west Railway Senator Lynch's Inspection Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

As a result of his recent inspection, Senator Lynch (Minister for Works and Railways) has prepared a detailed description of the country along the route of the east west…

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North Sydney Trams

The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

It is on the cards that at to-night's meeting of the Mosman Council attention will be drawn to the tram time tables, and the inability of the department to fit in with the…

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The East-west Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Monday. -- The "Advertiser" publishes an article on the east-west railway, headed. "Who Shall Run It?" giving tho opinion of a highly-competent railway authority that…

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Labor. Rail and Tram Officious

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

That considerable unrest prevailed among the salaried staff of the Railway and Tramway services, was stated by tho general secretary of the officers' association (Mr. S. Smith)…

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Model Aeroplane Club

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 7

A meeting was held at Rose Bay for the purpose of forming a Model Aero Club. It is the first club of its kind in Australia, and is expected to be a great success. All lads between…

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