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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1930

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Railway Porter Killed Run Down by Electric Train. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

John Fry, 58, railway porter at Redfern, was killed instantly when he was run down by an electric train at Central Station to–night. He was shockingly…

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N.r.m.a. Notes Through Traffic Roads

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 6

The time is rapidly approaching, the N.R.M.A. suggests, when it will be necessary for a distinction to be made between the rights of traffic on busy thorough fares…

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Clarence River Bridge Progress of the Work Piers Nearing Completion

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 4

After a fortnight's suspension over the Christmas season, work on the construction of the Clarence River Bridge was resumed on Monday last, the full…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. reports that the repair work on the main western highway over the Blue Mountains, which has been in progress for some months in now…

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Railway Through Grafton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 4

In another column, tenders are being called by the resident engineer, Mr. S. D. Webb, for the supply of approximately 20,000 lineal feet of 14in. diameter piles…

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Railway Excavations Action by Health Department Instigated by Copmanhurst Council

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 4

At the meeting of the Copmanhurst Shire Council yesterday a letter was received from the Director–General of Public Health enclosing a copy of a…

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Developmental Road Glenreagh to Corindi Creek

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

Messrs. A. J. Pollack and R. S. Vincent, M's.L.A., have received a communication from the Main Roads Board regarding the Dorrigo Shire's application for the…

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Guyra-Dorrigo Railway Work to Be Pushed on Mr. R. S. Vincent's Assurance Money for Dorrigo End Probably in June

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

At Tuesday evening's meeting of the Dorrigo Chamber of Commerce, Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., repudiated the report that recently appeared in a…

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Motor Cyclist Killed. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

Ernest Cleall, 33, a local resident, was fatally injured to–day, when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a lorry…

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Motor Lorry's Wild Leap

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

A motor accident which was fortunately without serious consequences occurred about half a mile on the Murwillumbah side of Chinderah on Wednesday, when a…

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Schoolteacher's "Joke?" Holding Up a Motorist. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

Wallace Johnson, 19, a State school teacher, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, at Box Hill, for having worn a mask with unlawful intent. The…

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Killed While Leaning Out of Tram

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 4

Struck by a tramcar while leaning out of another tram returning from the Davies Park Speedway, Brisbane. William James Harmes, a young man, and a…

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Railway Traffic North Coast Line Marked Increase Last Year

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 4

Figures made available by the District Superintendent of Railways yesterday show a marked increase of traffic on the North Coast line during 1929 as compared…

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Telegrams Motor Lorry Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 8

When a motor lorry overturned in Victoria Pass, near Katoomba, last night Several persons were more or less seriously injured. Mrs. Morrison received…

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Indian Train Smash Express Crashes Into Goods Train. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 3

A midnight collision occurred between the Peshawahr to Lucknow express and a stationary goods train at Clutnrbuckganj station, near Kariello. The express was…

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Loading the Poolta Bridge Workers' Attitude

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

Mr. C. E. Alderman writes:— "As chairman of the meeting called by the Bridge Workers in connection with the matter of the loading of the Poolta I…

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Tomato Industry Growers' Conference Pulping Factory Proposal Suggested Tomato Train. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 3

At the conference of the Central North Coast Tomato and Fruit Growers' Association, held in the School of Arts, Coff's Harbor, a number of proposals were put…

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Noisy Motor Cycles

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

"Next time you will probably be fined £10, [?]aid the P.M., Mr. W. C. Geikie, when Robert Albert Nichols appeared before him at the Armidale Police Court,…

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Motor Car Bodies Contracts for Australian Builders. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 3

Mr. H. V. Phipps, vice-president of the Chrysler Exporters' Corporation, states that contracts for the manufacture of 11,600 motor bodies during a period of…

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State Transport Bill Bruxner at Motor Show Luncheon. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 3

The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Bruxner, speaking at the motor show luncheon, appealed for sympathetic consideration of the Transport Bill which…

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