A Road-Making Machine
THE American road-making machine was tried last week at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the presence of Mr. Valder (principal), Mr. Farrar (of Queanbeyan), the members of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1899
235 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 12
Road Contracts
Specifications are on view at the Courthouse for the following contracts— Arnold's-Apple Tree Flat road—From near 8 mile to metalling towards 9 mile, 374yds…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Question
THE petition in favor of the railway from Guyra to Coff's Harbor and South Grafton has been forwarded to Mr. McLaughlin, M.P., who is to arrange a big deputation to wait…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Agitation. to the Editor
SIR,--Your recent articles showing the energy which the advocates of the Casino-Tenterfield railway-route are using to obtain the fulfillment of their desired scheme indicate that they at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glen Innes—Grafton Railway. We Have Nothing to Fear
We do not think there is any reason to question the Minister for Works' expressed intention to submit the three railway routes from New England to the coast for the consideration of the Public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Sydney Tramline
A PETITION signed by 400 business men and citizens of Sydney has been presented to the Minister for public works urging the desirability of the construction of an electric tramway from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A City Railway Scheme
IT appears that the recently announced scheme for city railway extension, which provided for the resumption of a block of buildings and the building of a station between Elizabeth, Pitt and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tenterfield-lismore Railway the Information Prepared at Tenterfield
Mr. Editor.—For some really amusing and instructive reading on the above commend us to "The information prepared at Tenterfield," as reported in the Northern Star of the 12th instant. The term…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Railway
Mr. Reid professes to be in raptures about the new scheme for extending the railway into the city. It would cost, be says, only £500,000, exclusive of the cost of a central…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coast-tableland Railway
That Coast railway seems as far, if not further, off than ever. At least, this is the opinion of a staff writer on the Armidale Chronicle. There are about half a dozen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bellingen Roads District
BY the courtesy of Mr. E. F. Crouch, Resident Engineer in the roads department at Bellingen, we are enabled to give some interesting figures concerning our roads and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road Vote
THE bad condition of our roads is a chronic grievance, becoming acute, like rheumatism, in wet weather. Mud roads must always get into bad condition in rainy weather, or under heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harwood Roads
Harwood Island, though not by any means the largest on this river, contains a large number of farmers, every one of whom is engaged in sugar cane culture. The whole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mineral Oil for Road Making
The London papers have just been booming the employment of petroleum on an American railway for binding the road, and suggesting its application…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Train Load of Beer
FOR some years past it has been an accepted fact that when tho Britisher settles down in a new country he builds a kirk: the Australian has been credited with inaugurating a racecourse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tenders for Road-work
TENDERS for the following road contracts will be received at the Bellingen Court House up to noon on Friday, September 22 :-Contract 10 (fresh tenders), Moonee to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dobie-street Bridge
The Member for Grafton has received a communication from the Works Department to the effect that its former decision respecting this bridge must be adhered to; that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Clarence Railway
Now is the time for the people of the Clarence to make another great effort to have the long deferred proposal to construct a railway from the Tableland to Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Conductors
For the positions of conductors on the George-street tramway, which will probably be opened about the end of next month, no less than 3500 applications were sent in to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Road Requirements
NOW that there is a Ministry in office which promises to deal more liberally than the previous administration with the roads, no time should be lost in bringing tho requirements of this…
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