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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 7 of 112

Inverell Coast Railway Candidate

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 January 1926 · page 4

Mr. D. A. McIntyre, the well-known solicitor, or Inverell, has been asked to stand as the Nationalist candidate for the next State elections for Inverell…

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Grafton Police Court Car and Motor Cycle Collide Charge of Dangerous Driving Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1926 · page 3

Leslie James Parnell pleaded not guilty at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning to a charge of having driven a motor cycle in Prince street in a manner…

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Brisbane Tramways Employees Dissatisfied with Award. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1926 · page 5

Brisbane tramway employees are dissatisfied with the award given by the Queensland Board of Trade and Arbitration and have decided to take a ballot…

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War Cloud Russia And China Eastern Railway Dispute Question of Control "Russia Preparing for War." London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1926 · page 5

Reports from Oslo (Norway) state that Russia is seriously and feverishly preparing for war with China. The Soviet army is mobilising, and…

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Job Control Ipswich Railway Dispute. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1926 · page 5

Several trains were held up this morning at Ipswich while the Station employees held a stop-work meeting to protest against the Department inquiry into the…

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Correspondence Our Roads. (To the Editor.)

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 2

Sir,—If it is true that the members of the Shire Council intend making a long of inspection shortly, I hope that they will have a…

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Letters to the Editor Tyringham Road

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 2

Sir,—I again wish to draw the attention of the Shire Council to the deplorable state of the Tyringham road Between the Bostobrick School and…

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Five Injured Car Collides with Train. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 4

A motor car driven by Paul Whiffling, of Seddon, collided with a train at Lake Learmouth railway crossing to-day and five passengers were injured…

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Wireless on Train Signals Fade Out in Tunnel London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 5

Five foreign stations were picked up on an express train fitted with loud speakers between Bristol and Cardiff. The most interesting result of the…

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Border Railway Prime Minister Hopeful. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, expressed pleasure that the conference in Melbourne between representatives of the Commonwealth and New South Wales…

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No Strike British Railwaymen Conference Backs Board Triumph for Thomas. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 5

The critical negotiations between the representatives of the railway companies and the National Union of Railwaymen opened at Euston this morning in regard…

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The Main Roads Act

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

From correspondence received by members of the Country party and from various comments in the press, it is obvious that many of our country shire…

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Faulty Buffer Two Carriages Derailed Tamworth Train Delayed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 5

When the Sydney to Tamworth train, which left Central Station this morning, had travelled only a few hundred yards, one of the buffers of the leading carriage…

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Motoring Notes Radio En Route. Interesting Developments. New Sphere of Wireless Telephony

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 8

Whilst we have no desire in these notes to trespass on a sphere of science and invention which at first sight is not akin to motoring, the subject matter which…

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The Relief Train Ferry

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 4

Interesting history is associated with the train-ferry Induna, which this week was brought to Grafton, where it is to remain permanently for relief purposes,…

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"Locked Out" Mort's Dock Employees Work Ok Train Ferry. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 5

A deputation waited on the Minister for Labor and Industry, Mr. Baddeley, today with reference to the position of men employed at Mort's Dock…

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Gold Watch for Lang From the 1917 Railway Strikers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 4

The 1917 railway strikers who had their seniority restored at the expense of the loyalists during the great upheaval have decided to express their…

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Councillors on Tour What They Thought of Fernbrook Road

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

"You have a bad track all right," was the opinion expressed by the Dorrigo Shire Councillors when they were met by practically all the Fernbrook…

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Inverell-coast Railway Candidate

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

Mr. D. A. McIntyre, the well-known solicitor, of Inverell, has been asked to stand as the National candidate for the next Stale elections for Inverell…

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Fatal Motor Accident Lady Driver's Admission. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 5

At the inquest concerning the death of Thomas Sayburn, of Sans Souci, who was fatally injured by a motor car on the evening of January 20, Margaret Baird,…

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