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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1940

718 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 36

Railway Restrictions Indignation at Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 4

Referring to the curtailment made in the railway services on account of the coal strike, Mr. E. J. Say well, of Tyringham, stated yesterday that there…

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Wider Platform South Grafton Railway Station "Heavy Expenditure Unwarranted."

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 4

Representations made by the Grafton and South Grafton Chamber of Commerce relative, to the question of widening the north end of the South…

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Road Safety Council, of N.s.w. Grafton Branch

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 4

The primary object of the Road Safety Council is to reduce the number of road accidents and the wastage of human lives Paused by such accidents…

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Opinions of Our Readers Railway Transport

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 4

Sir,--It is high time we overhauled our present politicians instead of wasting time on constitutional reform Last coal strike the secondary industries of…

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Leave Passes For Railway Employees Cancellation Denied. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 5

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Hartigan, to-day denied statements made in Parliament that the issue of annual leave passes to railwaymen had…

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Tram Conductor Knocked Off Footboard and Killed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 4

When a motor car and a bicycle, ridden by a messenger, collided in the city last night, the car skidded across the roadway and knocked Jack Osborne,…

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Three Killed Woman Injured Mosman Night Smash Car and Tram Collide . SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 4

Two men and a boy were killed and a woman was injured when a motor car and a tram collided in Mosman last night…

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To Be Strengthened Bridges On Wooli Road Mining Co, to Contribute £96 Representations to Orara Shire Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 9

At the Orara Shire Council meeting, held at South Grafton, yesterday morning, Messrs. J. Derrick and D. Porter, engineers of the Beach…

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Bomb in Train Failed To Explode Fuse Burned Out. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 April 1940 · page 3

A quantity of explosive powder bound with adhesive tape was found beneath the carriage of a workmen's train at Chullora to-day…

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Militiaman Killed Motor Cycle Crash. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 April 1940 · page 7

Victor Smith, about 22, a militiaman attached to the Liverpool camp, was killed and another militiaman was critically injured when a motor cycle…

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Rail Motor Wanted

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 April 1940 · page 6

Murwillumbah Chamber of Commerce has decided to ask the Railway Department to put back into commission the rail motor train between…

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Coff's Harbor Railway Business

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 April 1940 · page 10

Figures submitted by the Coff's Harbor station master for the month of March show a big increase in all departments. Big consignments of…

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Motor Cars N.Z. Ban Complete From Non-empire Countries. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 April 1940 · page 5

A new import restrictions schedule was announced to-day by the New Zealand Government. It places a ban on nearly all goods from countries…

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Assault in Train

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 2

Alexander Campbell Anderson was convicted at Taree Quarter Sessions of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Nola Ruth Smede,…

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Hospital Road Damage by Rain

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 2

At the Hospital Board meeting last night the President referred to damage done to Victoria-street, bordering the hospital, by recent rains. It…

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Railway Restrictions Indignation at Tyringham

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 1

Referring to the curtailment made in the railway services on account of the coal strike. Mr. E. J. Saywell, of Gyringham, stated that there was…

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FERTILISERS Supplies For Farmers Railway Arrangements. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 1

So that farmers, particularly those engaged in wheat growing, can secure fertilisers, the Railway Commissioner is prepared to cancel trains serving city…

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Empty Fish Cases Railway Commissioner Explains Will Send Trainloads to Fishermen

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 4

In response to representations made on behalf of the Clarence River fishermen by Mr. C. G. Wingfield, M.L.A., to the Commissioner for Railways for…

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Import Restrictions Motor Vehicle Chassis FROM U.S. and Canada Government's Decision. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 April 1940 · page 4

Restrictions on the importation or motor vehicle, chassis from the United States and Canada wlll be applied by the Federal Government from May [?]…

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Death at Casino Motor Cycle Accident Another Collision Injures Four. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 April 1940 · page 4

William John Wornes died in the Casino Memorial Hospital this morning as a result of injuries received last night in a motor cycle accident on the…

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