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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1895

81 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 5

The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays the North Coast Railway. a National and Local Line. Conditions Required

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1895 · page 8

THE Newcastle Morning Herald has an able article on the recent meeting at Stockton with regard to the North Coast railway. Our contemporary has at all times been…

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The North Coast Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1895 · page 8

THE S. M. Herald in a leader says "The proposed North Coast Railway has been before the public so long now that one is almost afraid to calculate the interval…

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Road-making and Eucalyptus Blocks

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 3

WE extract the following from a paper read before the British Institute of Public Health "An ideal roadway surface should approximate as nearly as possible to a plane surface,…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. in Defence of the National Railway. Some Errors Corrected

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 3

IT is a remarkable fact that many men who desire to be impartial in respect to public questions, succeed in blurring their mental vision, either through lack of information or…

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North Coast Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 4

THUS the Raleigh Sun—At Stockton, near Newcastle, recently, several people met to revive the corpse of the proposal to build the North Coast railway, or some further…

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Road Contracts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 8

THE following are the lowest tenders for the contracts named— 30/95-6-Levenstrath, via Kanguroo Creek, [?] Green's, John Hay und John Brennan,…

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Road Contracts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 November 1895 · page 8

TENDERS are invited for the following work on roads, for which specifications are on view at the Courthouse. Arnold's-Apple Tree Flat. At Double Duke…

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This Local Roads Office

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 November 1895 · page 8

OUR attention has been drawn to the inconvenience to which both officials and the public are subjected through the Roads Office being situate in a part of the town…

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A Light Railway Object Lesson

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 8

A correspondent writes to the Times:—In the Isle of Man there are some 46 miles of what may fairly be called light railways. The Isle of Man Company's line, which has…

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Moree to Inverell v. the National Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 4

THERE is evidently a large amount of enthusiasm in Moree, Inverell and intermediate neighbourhood with regard to the connection of those places by rail. This enthusiasm,…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Relief Works. Reproductive Works. Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 4

THE relief works question is causing a considerable amount of irritation in some quarters. The work at the Centennial Park is of this character. The complaint against…

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The City Railway—electric Trams

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 November 1895 · page 3

THE question of extending the railway into the city is likely to be solved at an early date by an improvement in the tram system and its wider extension. The Minister has…

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Road Contracts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 5

ON Thursday 183 tenders were opened for 20 road contracts in the Grafton district. The following are the lowest:—Grafton-Inverell road (fresh tenders), J. Stewart, £130 1s 6d;…

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The Abolition of Wool Teams. Taxation Subsidy for Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 December 1895 · page 4

THE somewhat mixed announcement of the PREMIER, which conveys the intention of placing £50,000 at the disposal of the Railway Commissioners tn order that teams laden…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. the Grafton-glen Innes Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 December 1895 · page 4

WHILE it ia pleasing to note both recent Ministerial action, and the satisfaction that action has given to the people of the Tableland and coast districts, we cannot but observe that…

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The Railway Rates

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 December 1895 · page 4

ON many occasions I have in your columns advocated a reduction in the railway rates, for the purpose of improving the condition of the farmers, and I therefore agree with…

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City Tramways and Country Works

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1895 · page 4

THE fact that the proposal to refer the question of an electric tramline along George-street, Sydney, to the Public Works Committee, was only carried upon the…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Subsidising Railways. Helping the Farmers. How?

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1895 · page 4

MR. CARRUTHERS has been credited with the proposal to subsidise the railways in the interests of occupiers of the land accessible to that method of communication with centres…

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Subsidy to Railway Commissioners

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1895 · page 4

THE Assembly would not entertain the proposal of the Government to grant the Railway Commissioners £50,000 per annum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to…

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Road Contracts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 December 1895 · page 3

SPECIFICATIONS are on view at the Court-house for the following contracts, for which tenders are invited. Bawden Bridge to Jackey's Creek road,…

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