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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
147 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 8
THE annual meeting of the Clarence Harbour Improvement and Railway Construction League, held on Wednesday last, possessed more than ordinary attraction to those who have taken an active…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SPECIFICATIONS are on view at the Court-house for repairs on three sections of the road from Dalmorton to Chandler's Creek, as follows:—40 chains clearing and road construction at foot of range,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOME time back a petition was sent to the Minister for Works, through the Member for Grafton, requesting that repairs be made on the road from Bostobrick to Perrett's Pinch. The Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the inspection of this line we were, at the outset, met with by the difficulty of traversing it through at all, and the impossibility of doing so on horseback, on account of the mountainous and broken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, THURSDAY.—A deputation, consisting of Messrs. David See, Ruderick and Dunnet, was introduced by the Member (Mr. J, M'Farlane) to the Minister for Works, and asked that an examiner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE deputation in advocacy of a line of railway from Maclean to Coraki has met—if not with a violent rebuff—with but faint courtesy, and less encouragement, from the Minister for Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following is a copy of Mr. Surveyor Hutchinson's report on the route suggested by Mr. Hooke, for a line of railway between Newton Boyd and Glen Innes. Mr. John See, M.P., made personal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOT only is the soil of this tract eminently fitted for cultivation and capable, when properly tilled, of supporting a dense population, but the splendid forests of marketable timber, of almost every kind…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WITH regard to engineering matters, the opinion we arrived at as to this line was that the curves would prove the chief trouble. The nature of the mountain ranges should allow of good grades being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE recent arrangement in connection with the administration of the Roads Department, under which the Assistant or District Engineers for Roads will have their offloea in Sydney, at first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PLANS and specifications for an iron bridge across Alumny Creek in Pound-street ore on view ot the Court-house, and we believe tenders are called for its construction. The structure will be 20 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE (Glen Innes Guardian) notice the residente of Armidale are again to the front on the question of railway communication between Inverell and the coast. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—It has been stated by the L. C. Advocate that several statements published in your report of the deputation which waited on the Minister for Works in reference to the above were "glaringly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE MINISTER, has decided to at once procced with the improvement purvey of the Grafton-Glen Innes line, recommended by Mr. Surveyor HUTCHINSON, in view of an corly determination of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE profession of road-making, whether within or without municipal areas, is not, we fear, quite up to the highest standard. So far as we are able to judge, outside municipal areas, there is very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONCE more we draw attention to the culpable negligence of those entrusted with the payment of road contractors. Whether the officials in the Roads Department or in the Treasury are blamable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FOR several years past certain city and suburban residen ts have been attempting to ro[?] a tremendous log in the shape of a railway into the city. From time to time they have almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE almost too wearying complaints that are being made with regard to the state and management of the roads in this district, cannot be permitted to pass withont further comment in the hope of some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN expressing some amount of gratification at the early close of the Session—profitless though it has been as regards so many important questions—we cannot overlook the fact that the people of these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS are called for the following contracta on roads, specifications of which are on view at the Court-house:— Armidale road—10 chains dearing, 517 yards…
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