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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
174 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 9
IN the Assembly, last evening, The Premier was not able to make his promised statement re Railway Policy in consequence of the length of the debate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Echo says: If Sir Henry Farkes's resolutions respecting further railway extension are to be adopted in Parliament, honorable members would do well to look to the condition of their political…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE PREMIER in his notable speech, when introducing what he has been pleased to call the Ministerial Railway policy, very carefully pointed out that the carrying into effect of any such proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Decentralization the Macleay Chronicle thus concludes an article in opposition to the movement generally, "There is a selfishness about the Grafton movement that makes it specially objectionable, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the recent meeting held in Glen Innes, Mr. C. LEGH, J.P., said, for some 20 years the people of these districts had agitated in thc matter of railway communication with the natural sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Assembly, last week, Mr. MOORE, member for Inverell, moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the railway policy of the Government. He said "I gave notice that I would move the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—Tour readers will have received with, diverse feelings the proposals of the Government [?] the North Coast Railway. Some will doubtless view the announcement as a sop for the representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. JOHN HAYNES, M.P., believes that Grafton could be made a port equal to that of Newcastle. Mr. G. H. REID, M.P., says: "If Protection is to be adopted it should be carried ont thoroughly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—No observant reader of the metropolitan and local press published in this and the adjoining districts of the Tableland, can fail to realise the fact that the claims of the Clarence and New England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Melbourne Age says:— "A colony possessed of nearly 1,000,000 square miles of territory and less than 40,000 people is under strong temptation to barter away acres for railways, and there is little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR HENRY PARKES: Mr. Dibbs has told the House that certain railways are upon the statutebook—that they are the law of the land. The law of the land is this: that the Government may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Assembly on Tuesday, in reply to Mr. Dowell, the Secretary for Public Works said that the distance from Kentucky to Inverell was 50 miles, which would cost about £6000 per mile…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Echo of Tuesday says, judging from the agitation raised against the Government proposal to join Inverell with the Great Northern line at either Kentucky or Guyra, it is pretty plain that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is the intention of the Minister for Works to submit in a definite form to Parliament in the course of the next few days the railway proposals of the Government, as announced by the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A PRELIMINARY MEETING was held yesterday afternoon in the Council Chambers, to discuss the advisability of holding a public meeting to take some aotion respecting the Railway proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is very strong evidence that unless the people of these districts pronounce themselves more strongly than they have hitherto done, permanent and irretrievable damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—As a youth of this district, and one who has interest at stake here, I trast yon will permit me to make a few remarks on the most important subject of railway communication in these northern districts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Committee appointed last week met on Saturday afternoon. Present—Mr. S. See (in the chair), Dr. Campbell, Messrs. T. G. Hewitt, J. O'Keeffe, G. H. Varley, T. Bawden, H. Maurice, J. H. Munro,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A LARGE and highly representative public meeting was held in the Theatre Royal on Thursday night to in[?]gurate the formation of a League for the promotion of Railway construction and Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In reply to Mr. Sydney Smith, the SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC WORKS said the railways of New South Wales had paid 3.13 per cent[?] return upon capital for the past ten…
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