Railway Employees. Question of Wages. Commissioners Want Reductions
Evening News · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 5
Judge Rolin in the Industrial Court, Sydney this morning was engaged in heating an application on behalf of the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales for the variation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Border Mystery. Probable Murder of a Motordriver
The Australian Worker · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 14
For some days last week a motor-driver named Crompton, who had left Murwillumbah in a car with another man, had been missing, and subsequently the car…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Jinker Driver Awarded £350 Damages Excessive Speed of Trams
The Sun · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 7
In the Banco Court this afternoon, before Mr. Justice Pring, James Walker, a jinker driver, was awarded £350 damages from the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners in respect of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thefts From the Railways. Magistrate's Remedy
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 3
Mr. Burton Smith, magistrate at the Central Court yesterday, made some strong comments oil thieving from the railways and the wharves. "The sooner railway employees understand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£223,065. Railway Banking Record
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 4
The Railway Commissioners report that the money banked by the Commissioners on Tuesday established a record for any single day's banking in the history of the railways…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. Banco Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and jury.) Milson's Point Accident. Walker v Railway Commissioners
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 4
In this action the plaintiff, James Walker, [?] jinker driver, sued the Railway Commissioners for New South Wales, claiming £500 compensation for Injuries Incurred in a tram…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stockinbingal Railway. Forbes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 6
Practically all the men engaged on the Forbes-Stocki[?]gal railway (the second section from Forbes to Caragabal) have been paid off and it is expected that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Earnings
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1918 · page 5
The Railway Commissioners report that the money banked by them on Tuesday established a record for any single day's banking in the hist[?]ry of the railways. The total amount…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Councillors' Inspection of Roads
The Land · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 6
The Severn Shire Councillors intend making an inspection of the Emniaville and Pinkett district roads towards the end of the present month. In…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Attempt to Wreck a Train
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 7
A malicious attempt to wreck a train was made on the Western line yesterday, about a mil[?] and a half this side of Wentworth Falls…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Main Road Grant
The Land · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 6
Murwillumbah Council which has been earning some notoriety of late, for having omitted to do the things it ought to have done, has been presumably…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Picnic at the Zoo John Bridge & Co.'s Annual Outing. for Show Visitors
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 4
About 350 persons responded to the invitation of Messrs. John Bridge and Co., Ltd., to join the principals of the firm in a trip to the Zoo on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor Cycle
Arrow · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 7
The Northern Suburbs Motor Cycle Club is making the pace a cracker. Mr. Prosper Ellis, the energetic hon. secretary, announces the following programme for this month:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MISDEMEANORS Motor Mystery Solved Arrested Man Charged with Murder
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 4
The body of the missing chauffeur, Charles Crompton, has been found in the Tweed River, near Chinderah (N.S.W.), The corpse was weighted and tied with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Australian Railways. The Company's Grievances
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 3
A message from London states that at a meeting of the Midland Railway Company of Western Australia, Mr. Williamson, the chairman, strongly urged that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Development Lesson to Be Learned From the War. Light Country Lines
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 3
Lieut -Colonel Fewtrell, D.S.O., Who left Australia in command of the Mining Battalion, and who returned to Sydney recently, said that light railways would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Thefts. Two Shunters Sent to Gast
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 4
Two shunters named Thomas Joseph Nicholson, aged thirty-two years, and Arthur Henry Aldridge, aged thirty-four years, were sentenced to fourteen days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court. Banco Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and jury.) Milson's Point Accident. Walker v Railway Commissioners
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 4
The action was concluded in which James Walker, a jinker driver,' sued the Railway Commissioners for New South Wales, claiming [?]500 compensation for injuries suffered by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Employees Sentenced
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 4
Mr. Burton Smith, S.M., at the Central Police Court, sent two shunters to gaol for thieving at Darling Harbour. Thomas Joseph Nicholson (32) and Arthur Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Soot Clothes-line Camouflage
The Sun · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 3
Residents In the vicinity of the Redfern Railway Station tunnel complain bitterly of the damage done to property by the copious issue of watery soot from…
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