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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1922

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Railway Fares and Freights

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 4

The Railway Commissioners deny the overt suggestion made by a newspaper correspondent that there is any present intention of again raising the fares. They…

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Motor Car Capsizes. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 5

A motor car containing a party of tourists skidded near Oberon and ran up an embankment and completely overturned. The occupants were thrown clear…

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Narrow Escape. Motor Car Overturns. Occupants Slightly Injured. Sydney, Wednesday Evening

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 2

A Bathurst message to-day says: A party of motorists, comprising Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and son, of Culcairn, and Mr. A. H. Bryan, of Bathurst, had…

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Killed Instantly. Medical Student in Motor Collision. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 3

Samuel Asher, 21, a medical student, was killed instantly in a collision between a motor car and a jinker in Macquarie-street last night…

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German Railways. Making Them Pay. Rates Must Cover Expenses. London. Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 3

A Berlin message says the German Government has introduced a Bill handing over the State railways to an independent administration which will…

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Dived Under Railway Engine. Suicide at Cairns. Cairns

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 2

Timothy Toohey, 50, ended his life by diving under a railway engine. The body was terribly mutilated…

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Jumped From Train. Woman Loses Nerve

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 1

A woman passenger in a train has had a curious experience, which nearly cost her the lives of herself and child (says the London "Daily Chronicle")…

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Telegrams Attempt to Wreck a Train. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 5

An attempt was made to wreck a train between Hornsby and Milson's Point last night. A bag of blue metal was discovered on the near St. Leonards. It had…

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Attempted Train Wrecking Bag of Metal on Line. Sydney. Thursday Evening

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 2

An attempt was made last night to wreck st train on the North Shore line. A bag of blue metal was discovered…

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Casualties Motor Car Collides with a Horse Wagga

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 2

As a result of a collision between a motor car and a horse at Wagga Miss Hall who occupied a seat in the car with a number of others, received shocking in…

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Egyptian Egg Lady. Picturesque Figure in Cairo. From Donkey to Motor

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 4

I have never heard her name because she is always referred to by the title of her trade, that of a purveyor of eggs…

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Railway Work in the War

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 2

Before the end of the war, said Lord Haig recently, the whole area behind our front line was so linked up with railways that a big offensive…

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Isolated Crofters. Fight to Secure Road. an 80-Years' Struggle

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1922 · page 6

The Gaelic-speaking people of the remote hamlets of Sanna and Plocaig, in Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, haying vainly tried for the past 80 years to…

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The Haunted Creek. Tale of an Old Road. Ghosts of the Bush. Murder Victims Walk

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1922 · page 6

The old road from Grafton to Glen Innes was via the Nymboy, the Stony Pinch, and Barney Hill until the Little River cuttings made the present road,…

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Dorrigo-Guyra Railway

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1922 · page 3

In the Legislative Assembly the other night Mr. Estell, Secretary for Public Works, moved: That it be referred to the…

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Safety Railway. Engine's Electric Brain. Collisions Impossible

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1922 · page 3

An engine with a brain of its own, a fool-proof railway, an end to collisions saving of expense and quickening of traffic--the possibility of such a…

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Motor Service to Yamba

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1922 · page 2

Mr. W. L. Eggins, who has been running a special excursion car from Grafton to Yamba on Wednesdays and Fridays, leaving here at 6.45 a.m…

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LORRY v. Tram. Four Persons Injured. Serious Results of a Bolt. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1922 · page 5

Two horses, attached to a lorry, took fright at a piece of paper and bolted in Botany Road last night. The lorry dashed into a tram, the…

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Casualties. Serious Tram Accident. Several Passengers Injured. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1922 · page 3

A serious tramway accident occurred on Saturday afternoon when two cars collided head on on the single track on the Clayfield line. Both were badly…

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Head-on Collision. Two Trams One Line. Eight Persons Injured. Brisbane, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 9 January 1922 · page 2

A sensational head-on collision between two trams occurred on the Clayfleld line, near Albion Hill, this afternoon, in which eight persons were…

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