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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1926

2,224 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 112

Train Hold-up Shocking Affair in Mexico Wholesale Murder and Robbery Mexico City

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 5

A passenger train was attacked by bandits between Guadalajara and Mexico City. The majority of the passengers were murdered and most of the military escort…

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Motor Frauds Charges Against Two Men Large Sums Involved. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day George Vere Ward Terrill, 25 accountant, and Frederick Edward Fontaine, 52, manager, were charged with having conspired…

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Guard's Death Badly Lighted Railway Yards. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 4

At the inquest concerning the death of Samuel Steele, a railway guard who was killed at Hurstville by a goods train, the driver of the latter said had there been…

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Mountain Road

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

The Bellingen. Shire Council has commenced renovating the top end of the Dorrigo Mountain road, which has been in a bad state of disrepair for…

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Harwood Shire General Rate 2½d. Motor Power for Punts Grafton-yamba Road

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 6

The monthly meeting of the council of Harwood Shire was held at Maclean on Friday, January 8, 1926. Those present were Crs. D. L. Archer (president), in the…

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The £20,000,000 Road Development Policy

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 5

The Minister for Works and Railways has been actively engaged in preparing a plan to carry into effect the Bruce-Page Government's…

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The 20,000,000 Road Development Polloy

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

The Minister for Works and Railways has been actively engaged in preparing a plan to carry into effect the Brace Page Government's…

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Bandits Attack Train. Twenty Bodies Recovered. London, Monday Night

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

Reuters Vancouver correspondent reports that news from Mexico City iu connection with the attack on a train by bandits indicates that 20 bodies…

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Orara Shire The Estimates Small Amount for By-roads Arrears of Rates

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

The January meeting of the Orara Shire Council was held at the Council Chambers, South Grafton yesterday morning, there being present the president (Cr. G. Kelly)…

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Preselection Railway Men Want It Abolished Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 4

Delegates from the Australian Railway Unions to the A.L.P. Conference will propose the abolition of preselection ballots. In a leading article the official organ of…

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Van Off Rails North Coast Mail Train Delayed. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 4

A butter van on the North Coast mail train to Sydney this afternoon was derailed about a mile north of Coff's Harbor…

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Railway Workshops

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 4

Mr. F. W. Stuart, M.L.A., has forwarded to the Lismore Chamber of Commerce the following letter received from the Railway Department:--"'Adverting to the…

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Missing Railway Link

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 4

Some few weeks back statistics in connection with the missing link between the railhead at Tweed Heads and Murwillumbah were collected at these two places by…

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Miners Complain City Railway Works Hours and Conditions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 4

A deputation representing miners employed in the city railway construction, interviewed the Minister for Labor and Industry to-day regarding the hours of…

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Fettler Killed Run Down by Mail Train. Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

While going to the scene of a derailment on a tricycle last night, Frederick Weatherby, 50, a fettler, was run down and killed near Yass Junction by the…

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Aeroplane Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 4

An aeroplane en route from Melbourne to Richmond aerodrome struck the ground heavily while trying to land at Cootamundra this afternoon. One tyre burst…

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Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting. Tourist Matters and Roads

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 6

The ordinary, monthly meeting of the Dorrigo Chamber of Commerce was held in Mr. M. Feros's room on Tuesday evening last, when there were…

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Dorrigo Mountain Road What Council Is Doing

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

The following letter from the Bellingen Shire Council was read at Tuesday evening's meeting of the Dorrigo Chamber of Commerce:—…

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Gold Passes Useless. on Vic. Railways. After Abolition. Melbourne

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

The Premier of Victoria, Mr. Allan said yesterday that if New South Wales wanted the members of the Legislative Council to use their gold…

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Motor Fatality. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 4

While George Dunn, aged 37, a well-known contractor, was attending to the tail light of his car on the main road at Moonah another car, driven by Joshua…

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