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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1930

1,907 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 96

Road to Bicknell's

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

Writing further in reply to the shire council's request to the Lands Department to make a trafficable road to Bicknell's and McKay's, the…

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Road From Friday Creek

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. J. Smith, "Palmdale," Coffs Harbour, wrote to last meeting of the shire council asking what action is being taken regarding the…

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Another Road Plant for Dorrigo

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

The two top plateau ridings are to have an additional road-making plant, the Council at its meeting on Wednesday adapting a motion, moved by…

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Road Tests. Points of Excellence in Whippet Six

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

The Whippet six has always been noted for its remarkable sweetness of running. Its six cylinders carry out their job without the slightest…

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Clarence Bridge Big Arches to Carry Roadway to Upper Deck

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

Two of the big reinforced concrete arches which will carry the roadway to the upper deck of the Clarence bridge have been constructed on the Grafton side of the river. The supporting piers of the arch rest on reinforced concrete bases which are set on top of thirty foot piles driven into the earth…

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Motor World

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

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, is…

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Another Road Plant for Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 4

The two top plateau Ridings of the Dorrigo Shire Council are to have an additional road-making plant. The council, at its meeting on Wednesday, adopted a…

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New Province Neglected Area Will Flourish Valuable Interstate Land Opening of Brisbane--mt. Lindesay Road

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 9

According to the Commissioner for Main Reads in Queensland (Mr. J. R. Kemp), when the Brisbane Mt. Lindesay road is officially opened on Saturday, January 25,…

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Railway Station Sites

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 4

Messrs. Wickham (chief engineer, railway construction branch), Milne. (construction branch), and Mathews (Lands Department), members of the Railway…

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Anniversary Day Holiday Railway Arrangements

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 4

The Railway Department states that details of train and cheap ticket arrangements on the Grafton-Murwillumbah and Casino-Kyogle lines for Anniversary Day,…

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Railway Station Destroyed Good Work of Stationmaster. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 5

Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by a fire which broke out at the Dalby railway station last night. The outbreak was discovered in the kitchen, and spread…

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RETRENCHMENT Curtailment Of Works Many Railwaymen to Go Due to Depletion of Loan Funds Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 5

Owing to financial stringency there is likely to be wholesale retrenchment in the Railway Department within the next few weeks, especially…

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Aerodrome for Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

There is a big probability that Tyalgah racecourse will soon be a licensed aerodrome for Murwillumbah. An aviation inspector has reported the area to…

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Bruxner Road

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

Col. M. F. Bruxner, Minister for Local Government, has advised the Shire Council at Tenterfield that it has been arranged for the official opening of the Bruxner…

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Two Road Pests

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

There are, according to the N.R.M.A., two road pests each of whom scores 100 per cent, as a double-barrelled, altogether-awful weariness of the flesh…

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Good Roads and Land Values

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

One direct result of the reconstruction of Parramatta Road in the past decade and of its conversion into a super-highway during the last couple of years has been a…

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Longest Span Detroit's New Bridge

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1

Spanning the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan (U.S.A.), and Sandwich, Ontario, the Ambassador Bridge has been built by private interests at a cost of…

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Safety on the Road

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

''There is a wonderfully human appeal in the doctrine of the road safety movement--unselfish and universal," says the acting-chairman of the N.R.M.A. Board…

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Broome's Head Bridge Arrangements for Official Opening

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

At a meeting of the Broome's Head Bridge Committee on Friday evening arrangements were completed for the official opening of the bridge on Anniversary Day…

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Sequel to Motor Smash on Bellingen Dorrigo Road Motorist Fined After Collision Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

The sequel to a motor smash on the Bellingen to Dorrigo road was heard in the Bellingen Police Court, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at this week's sittings,…

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