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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1928

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Motor Accident Near Ballina

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

While travelling from Lismore to Ballina on Monday, near the canal bridge to spend the holiday, the door of a car driven by Mr. Harold Timperley flew open…

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Where's Birtles? Overlanding Motorist Missing No News Since Leaving Baghdad. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

Though at present there is no cause for real anxiety, interested people in England are troubled at the absence of news from Francis Birtles. who is…

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Sydney's Trams Proposal to Sell Them. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

A section of the Ministers intend bringing before the State Cabinet a proposal to hand over the tramways to a private corporation controlled by Act of…

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Motor Bike Hits Cow Youth and Girl Seriously Hurt. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

A motor bike struck a cow on the main western road at Mount Druitt early this morning, as a result of which Richard Watton, 19, and Miss Thelma Small, 19,…

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Bitumen Roads

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 3

In the last five or six years there has been a decided improvement in the civic life of Inverell, and, after the prostrating effects of the last big…

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N.r.m.a. Notes. Stone Chocks on Roads

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 1

Definite action should be taken to suppress the menace caused by motorists leaving on the roads large stones used as chocks for their wheels. The N.R.M.A…

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Canberra Week-end Tours Round Train and Bus Service. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

A scheme for, week-end trips to Canberra, enabling visitors to spend one day in viewing the various places of interest, has been adopted by the Commissioner. At…

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Many Motor Cars

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 2

The roads were alive with motor cars during the holidays. Most of them were controlled by good steady drivers, but some of the drivers do…

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New Motor Ship for North Coast S.N. Co. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

The motor ship which is being constructed by Burmeister and Wain, at Copenhagen, for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Limited, was launched…

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Works and Railways Relef Funds Vanishing 'Big Railway Deficit Expected. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

The Minister for Works and Railways, Mr. Buttenshaw, after an interview with the Assistant Treasurer, Mr. Stevens, today, said that during the last two months…

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Sydney Trams Reported Sale to Private Company. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw, Acting Premier, stated this morning that the report that the State Government might dispose of the Sydney trams to a private company…

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Tyre Burst Beecroft Motorist Killed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

W. H. Ballard, a resident of Beceroft, when returning from an Adelaide motor tour, was killed yesterday about 40 miles from Melbourne when his car overturned…

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Drunk in Motor Car Two Men Sent to Prison. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

Frederick Holdsworth, 56, clerk, and John Donovan, 19, aircraftsman employed at Point Cook were at Melbourne yesterday sentenced to 14 days'…

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Passenger Leaves Train in Sleep

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 4

A man named Denis Brennan walked in his sleep from the first division of the Queensland Western mail train on Tuesday night between Chinchilla and Baking…

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Fire on Train Mail Bags Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 5

Ten bags of mail for Queensland stations were destroyed when a louvre van, attached to the Brisbane mail train, which left Sydney at 2 p.m. yesterday caught…

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Murder? Mitcham Road Tragedy Young Woman's Death. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 5

The detectives investigatnig the death of Mrs. Iolen Sampson, whose battered body was found on the road at Mitcham last Tuesday think that she met with…

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Shire's Finances Deputation to Minster Drought-stricken Settlers on Roads. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 5

A deputation from Cudgegong Shire Council (Mudgee) which interviewed the Under Secretary for Local Government, in the absence of the Minister, Mr…

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Young Man Killed Car and Lorry Collide Armidale Road Smash Charge of Feloniously Slaying

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 4

"I think the facts disclosed by the evidence show that a criminal offence has been committed, in connection with this matter, and if so it…

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Yacht Reported Missing Located by Aeroplane. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

The yacht was discovered by Rupert for Port Stephens on Tuesday and which was reported missing, has been located moored in the offing at Port Stephens…

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Shoal Near McFARLANE BRIDGE

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 4

Mr. A. J. Pollack, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Public Works Department: "With reference to your personal representations in relation…

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