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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

1,316 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 66

Q'sland Shearers Serious Disturbances Sydney Men Attacked Train Derailed Near Capella. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 5

Serious disturbances arc threatened as the result, of the attitude of the striking shearers towards Sydney shearers, who are being brought to fill the vacancies…

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Sixty Years Ago Railway Agitation Confidence in Henry Parkes July to December, 1872

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

Arrowroot was extensively and profitably grown in the Clarence district in 1070 the Peru and Bermuda varieties being the most popular. If. should be worth…

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

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 6

Tests are being made on a stretch of railroad. in Germany with intermittent light, signals at unprotected grade crossings. When the way is clear a white…

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Fire on Motor Ship Vessel Ashore at New Caledonia. sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 5

A broadcast appeal reached Sydney this morning from the British motor ship, Eaton, from tho vicinity of Noumea, asking passing vessels to stand by and…

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Badly Injured Motor Cycle Out of Control Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

Alfred Donohue, 32, had his eye cut out and his skull fractured, and John Berford his pelvis fractured, when a motor cycle and side car, which got out or…

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Just Got Work Killed by Motor Lorry. Picton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

P. Barry, 38, a returned soldier, jumped off a motor lorry at Bargo River, Picton, yesterday. The wheel passed over his head, killing him instantly. He had…

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Train Restored

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

Taree Chamber of Commerce has succeeded in getting the Railway Commissioners to restore the day train service between Taree and Kempsey…

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Road and Telephone

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

At the last Progress Association meeting it was decided to ask the Nymcoida Council to improve a rut on Day's Hill. It was also decried to…

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Clarence River Bridge Featured in "Sydney Mail."

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

Featured in this week's issue of the "Sydney Mail," a copy of which has been forwarded to us by Mr. R. T. Cox, is one of the finest illustrations yet seen of the…

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Midsummer Railway Excursions

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

Country people are given opportunity for cheap railway travel in a series of excursion trains which will run during the second week of February,…

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Motor Cyclist Gets Law, But Not Justice

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

Charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. at Coff's Harbor Police Court with failure at return an expired registration and number plate of a…

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Motor World

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

Tests are being made en a stretch of railroad in Germany with intermittent light signals at unprotected grade crossings. When the way [?]…

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Vain Search for Work Skilled Chemist's Tramp

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

Have you a notion of going north in search of work? If you have, one who has tried says "Don't." Conditions in Northern New South Wales and…

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No Fire Motor Ship Enton Waiting Foe Help. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

A radio message was received in Sydney this morning from Captain Smith, of the motor ship Enton, denying emphatically that there had been a fire on…

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8 1-3 Per Cent. Cut. Railway Employees Affected. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

Many railway employees who benefited a by the 44-hour week are now liable to the 8 1-3 per cent. cut provided by the Public Service Salaries Reduction Act…

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Shire Roads

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 4

Councillors J. Campbell and W. J. Benson, representatives of Riding A of the Orara Shire, are at present making a tour of inspection, of the various roads within…

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10 or Four Days Travelling Free on Goods Train Unemployed Men Plead Guilty

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 3

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, Kenneth Marshall (20), Joseph Williams (20), Leo. Petas (22), William Jackson (20), Alrred…

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Railway Blanket Defendant Convicted

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 2

Allen Ferguson, 21, appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday in answer to a charge of having in his possession a…

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'Tyrannical Powers ' Railwaymen Kick "Reduced to Absolute Subjection." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 5

With the avowed object of formulating a plan of campaign "to smash the tyrannical powers now being wielded" by the Railway Commissioners a, mass meeting…

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Wreckers' Work Attempt on Train Iron Bar on Line. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 5

Only a maniac could have been responsible for a dastardly attempt to wreck the Mudgee mail train early this morning near Katoomba…

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