North Shore Bridge. Committee's Recommedation. Sydney, Friday Night
The Public Works Committee has recommended the adoption of Bradfield's scheme for constructing a cantilever bridge from Dawes' Point to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
771 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 39
The Pleasures of Motoring
Much has been said of the advantages and quick travelling facilities obtained with the advent of the motor car, but it certainly has its…
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The main bridge in the design consists of nicked steel cantilevers, supporting central girders, also constructed of nicked steel. The anchor or shore arms of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Coast Railway Its Immediate Completion Urged. Influential and Representative Deputation. Cabinet's Proposal to Parliament. Suggested Completion of the Line with Glenreagh and Dorrigo, and Construction of the Bridge Within Three Years
SYDNEY, Saturday.—A large and influential deputation of Parliamentary representatives of the North Coast and elsewhere, backed up by the President of…
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The Minister, for Railways (Mr. Cann) said that he fully expected to find that the current financial year of the Railway Department would end in a deficit. The year finishes on June 30,…
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A representative deputation asked the Minister for Works to complete the North Coast railway at this earliest possible date, Mr. Morton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast Railway. to Pe Completed by Contractors. Sydney, Tuesday Night
The Government has concluded a tentative contract with Griffiths (Australia) limited for the construction of three millions worth of railways…
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The condition of the Armidale Road in the vicinity of the Orara was commented upon by the Engineer, in his report at the Orara Shire Council this week. Heavy…
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The influential deputation that waited on the Minister for Works on Monday, had no trouble in making out a strong case in advocacy of the speedy construction of…
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[?]ving a French Pe[?]gcot car, Jules Goux won the 500 miles automobile race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, his speed averaging 76½ miles an hour. In the last, lap a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday,—The Minister for Works will probably ask for authority to let a contract to Griffith Australia, Ltd., for the construction of…
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Replying to the N.C. railway deputation's request, Monday the Minister nor Works said:- "To come to the present position,…
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The Minister for Works, Mr. Griffith, has received an interim report from the Local Government Engineer, Mr. R. E. Jones, to whom…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pineapples v. Cows. "The Road to Fortune."
A correspondent to a Sydney paper writing from Nambour (Q) thinks there is more money in pineapples than in paspalum and cows, and he…
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Early this week a large representative deputation interviewed the Minister for Works and urged that the North Coast railway should be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Railway. Bridge Over the Clarence. the Glenreagh-dorrigo Line. Important Ministerial Statemfnt
A large deputation, representing both Houses of Parliament, commerce, and shipping interests, and North Coast centres, was introduce to the Hon. A…
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A DEPUTATION. numbering nearly fifty, waited upon the Minister for Works on Monday to urge upon him the necessity for immediately…
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THE Minister of Public Works, has as good as authenticated all the statements uttered by Mr. Briner, concerning the North Coast and…
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Word has reached us that a tentative (that is to say, not binding on the Government until ratified by Parliament) agreement has…
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SYDNEY, Friday—The Minister for Works has referred to the Griffiths Australia, Ltd., statements published as seriously misleading. They are entirely…
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