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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1933

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Road Work Problem Bent Street, South Grafton Reconstruction to Be in Concrete

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 4

Finality, was reached yesterday in regard to the vexed question of the reconstruction of Bent street, South Grafton, when the decision was arrived at that the…

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Motor Lorry Crash

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 3

Mr. L. Irwin was driving Mr. G. Allbutt's motor lorry up the main street from the direclion of the Jetty during a busy hour on Saturday…

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State Railways Re-organisation Scheme. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

A re-organisation of New South Wales railways has been decided upon, under which the number of separate branches will be reduced to nine, namely,…

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Body Recovered Woman Who Jumped Off Bridge. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 5

Police this morning recovered the body of the woman who last night jumped from the Sydney Bridge. The body, which bore marks of a few abrasions on…

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Railway Chiefs Big Saving in Salaries. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 4

It was stated to-day that salaries paid to the heads of the civil engineering, local motive. electrical and traffic branches of the Railway Department under the new…

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Trans, Railway Little Likelihood of Strike. ADELAIDE,Friday

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 4

The general opinion is that there little likelihood of a strike on the transcontinental railway line despite the fact that the Commonwealth Railway…

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Motor Vehicles Quarterly Registrations Popular. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 5

Indications are that the system of quarterly registration of motor vehicles is proving highly successful. At the end of December. 1932. vehicles registered…

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Kyogle Woodenbong-urbenville Roads

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 2

Mr. Close, officer in charge of relief works on the Kyogle-Woodenbong-Urbenville roads, stated last week that there were now approximately 250 men…

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Batch of Train Jumpers

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 2

On the arrival of a goods train from Brisbane at Kyogle on Wednesday, Constables Crouch and Forbes took charge of 10 young men who were found in an…

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Dorrigo Mountain Road Correcting a Wrong Impression Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 2

The president of the Bellingen Shire Council, Cr. D. V. McNally, states that a paragraph which appeared in the Grafton "Daily Examiner," forwarded to it…

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Strychnine Railway Fettler's Suicide Coroner's Comment. Guyra

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 2

At an adjourned inquest before Mr. A. A. Brown, the District Coroner, respecting the death of John William Warnes, 49, a railway fettler, and a returned…

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Park Murder Young Married Man Arrested Police Hunt Ends Death of May Miller Stolen Motor Car As Clue. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 3

A man suspected of having murdered May Miller, also known as Iris Marriott, aged 30 years, in Queen's Park, Waverley, one of the Eastern…

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Safety on the Roads

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. Safety Department points, out that, though traffic on the roads was unusually heavy over the holidays, the number of serious motor…

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How Good Roads Save Money

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. suggests that every motorist has a bread-and-butter interest in the improvement of at least the main roads, and is, therefore vitally concerned…

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Bradman and Wife Motoring to Adelaide. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 1

Don Bradman and Mrs. Bradman left Melbourne to-day by car for Adelaide to join the Austrlian team for the third test. The trip will be made in easy stage…

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Defies Motors Hansom Still Plying I Starts Fifty-fifty Year

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 2

Fifty years service as a cab driver in the city of Brisbane and never an accident to a passenger, is the proud record of Mr. Fred de Jersey, who took out his…

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Motor Registrations

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 4

Before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning William Manewell pleaded guilty to charges of having failed to return the…

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Thrown From Motor Cycle Man's Painful Ordeal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 4

Harry Hughes, 24, butcher, of Glenreagh, was conveyed in the Grafton District Ambulance to the Grafton District Hospital yesterday, suffering from…

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Motor Vehicles N,r,m,a, Deputation to Minister Registration Proposals. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 4

The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, told a deputation from the N.R.M.A. to-day that it is estimated that 20,000 vehicles on the roads to-day did not pay…

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Train Crash Collision in Bucharest Eight Dead--many Injured. Bucharest

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 January 1933 · page 5

A terrible railway accident occurred when a city north station express ran down a private local train and scattered its human freight on to the…

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