Sea Bed Lifted Another Serious Shock Roads Choked with Refugees Day of National Mourning Harrowing Tales of Eyewitnesses. Auckland
Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 5
Another serious earthquake occurred at Napi[?]r late last night, as the result of which fresh fires have broken out in the town. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods on Northern Rivers 28 Inches Of Rain At Tweed Heads Seas on Coast Hold Up Flood Waters Washaways On Railways Lismore Business Centre Under Water Many Houses Totally Submerged
Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 4
Abnormal falls of rain totalling 28 inches in nine clays have been experienced at Tweed Heads and floods of a serious nature have resulted. On the main coastal road at the northern end of Currumbin beach about 200 yards of road were washed away and damage was also caused by the sea…
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Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 4
"That chap" chap seems to know very little about: driving a car, but as it is his I don't suppose anyone minds," said constable Thomas Carney, of Regent street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Services Brisbane Line Open
Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3
The Brisbane express, which during the past few days has been taking the Wallangarra route, was on Saturday night diverted to the North Coast line…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2
The flights over Sydney on Friday last of an Air Force biplane, with what appeared to be a "sausage" balloon trailing behind at the end of…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2
At last meeting of Dorrigo Chamber of Commerce reference was made to the inconvenient time-table for the Glenreagh-Dorrigo line. Mr. C. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather High Tides Water Breaks Over Roads. Palmer's Island
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4
As a result or the recent heavy rain the grass paddocks have recovered wonderfully and the grass is growing rapidly. About nine and a half inches were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dorrigo Mountain Road. Question of Maintenance. Bellingen Shire President's Suggestions
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2
Recently Dorrigo "Gazette" had an article complaining of the condition of the mountain road from Bellingen, in which the Bellingen Shire Council…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2
James Hodges died at the local hospital from a fractured skull as the result of a motor cycle crashing while he was competing in a race at the Sports Grou[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Premiers' Conference Federal Aid Roads Agreement Amended Motor Competition and the Railways Co-ordination Of All Transport Services Overlapping Services Discussed Canberra
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 5
The Premiers' Conference to-day agreed to make an important amendment to the Federal Aid Roads Agreement. From July 1 next the Commonwealth will pay to the States a sum equal to twopence halfpenny per gallon on all petrol imported for home consumption…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 4
A special excursion train left South Grafton for Sydney at 8.35 o'clock last night. There were 12 first-class and 74 second-class passengers, but it was…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 2
For 68 successive years during the summer season the "Flying Scotsman" express of the London and North-Eastern Railway has left King's Cross station in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Korora-upper Bucca, Road Progress of Construction Upper Bucca
Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 7
Excellent progress has been made with the construction of the new road, Korora to Upper Bucca, and it is to be hoped that a further grant of £5000, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Notes Tightening a Loose Stud
Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 6
To tighten a stud bolt permanently, cut a slot with a hacksaw for about half an inch up the end of the stud and insert a small steel wedge in the slot. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Freicht on Circus Threat to Travel by Road
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4
Criticism of the treatment he was receiving from the Victorian Railway Department was voiced by Mr. P. Wirth, the governing director of Wirth Bros.' circus,…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4
Two men had a miraculous escape from death when the mail train from Murwillumbah practically cut their car in two on the Crabbe's Creek level crossing on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Free Train Rides. Demands by Unemployed
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2
Insistent demands for free tram Tides as well as the dole from this Government are being made by some of the unemployed. Two instancnces of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Smash. On Upper Orara Road
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 1
Mr. J. T. Seccombe's little Citreon car and a larger one driven by Mr. Les Watt, came into collision on Upper Orara road on Tuesday, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Manners Britain's New Highway Code
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 7
Motorists have looked forward to New Year's Day, 1931, with apprehension, writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus." Hitherto the law…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mountain Road Reply to "Gazette" Comment by President of Bellingen Shire
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2
Cr. D. V. McNally, President of the Bellingen Shire Council, has the following to say in a letter to the "Raleigh Sun" regarding the Dorrigo…
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