Payments on Road Contracts
SOME months back Mr. Danger, member for the Macleay, wrote to the Minister for Works on the question of delay in paying contracts for work on roads, a complaint so prevalent in the Clarence…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
128 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 7
The Glen Innes-Inverell Railway
As our readers are aware, the Glen Innes to Inverell line of railway has been referred to the Public Works Standing Committee. Fortunately, this step was taken before the close of the session,…
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MR. EDITOR: The strictures of "A.B.C." in the Herald, as noticed in your last Tuesday's issue, may not be strictly correct re amount (£15,000) voted for the Coldstream bridge. That a bridge…
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A CORRESPONDENT signing A.B.C. writes to the editor of the Herald, and says:— I have read your leading article of 2nd instant, commenting on the Hon. John Smith's letter, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Proposal to Lay Tramways Gratton. Particulars of the Route
THE following are the stipulations agreed to between the Council and the Sydney Syndicate proposing to lay tramways in the borough of Grafton. The Syndicate reqnested permission to run a…
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MR. EDITOR.—Your journal kept very lucidly before the public last year the neglected payments of road contractors, But there is an evil that affects them more than delayed payments, and…
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A PETITION, signed by residents of the Upper Orara, will be forwarded to the Minister for Works next week, urging that a sum of money be granted for the construction of a road from the…
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MR. EDITOR.—Concerning the payment of public accounts, I saw in your issue of the 13th a very poor excuse given to the Member for the Macleay, by the Minister for Works. I can speak for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Echoes and Opinions. The Railway and Harbour League
WHAT has become of the Railway League? Is it starving for want of funds? or is it waiting for the fulfilment of unredeemed pledges? It would almost appear as if the public should exert itself…
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IT is proposed to resume land for the undermentioned roads, and any objections to same must be lodged before Fobrunry 23. Parts of road from Byangum to Cudgen, between Byangum and the…
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MR. EDITOR.—The Examiner and the Member for Grafton are deserving of credit from the general public, and especially contractors for Government works, for inducing the Minister for Works to send…
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"THE following correspondence has been handed us for publication." Grafton, January 30th. To S. SEE, Esq.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859] Saturday Morning, February 7Th, 1891. The Railway Question
OUR neighbours west of us on the Tableland and beyond are once more becoming anxious over the Railway question. The Inverell people speak with no uncertain voice as to what is their predominant…
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Mr. EDITOR—I was just pitching camp at the Dorrigo Scrub when my attention was drawn to a letter which appeared in your paper of the 24th ultimo signed "Contractor." The poor fellow…
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MR. EDITOR.—My letter in your issue of the 24th ultimo, is a very unpaintable one to publican contractors. Nevertheless, it is true. "Publican," in Tuesday's issue, carefully avoids the principal…
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THE following important clauses have been added to the conditions under which road contracts are let by the Government. THE TRUCK SYSTEM NOT ALLOWED.—The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859] Saturday Morning, February 21St, 1891. Clarence and Richmond Roads. Myrtle Creek Bridges and Telegraph Office
HOWEVER much the members for the Richmond electorate may be entitled to the commendation of their constituents for favours conferred, there are some matters which are not receiving that…
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At a meeting of the Committee of the Upper Orara Progress Association, the following petition to the Minister for Works was adopted:—"We, the undersigned farmers and other residents of the…
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THE railroad building last year fell off to 6000 miles, but in the five last years 39,000 miles have been built (20,000 of which were in the South and South-west, where the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Casino-Lismore Road
THE Lismore municipality is on reed with one of the worst pieces of road in these distriots. That road forming one of the main arteries loading to the town, It is right to say that the badness of…
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