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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 9 of 36

RAILWAYS Early History Dislikes and Prejudices Difficulties That Were Overcome

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3

The early history of railways formed the subject of a very interesting address, which was given by Mr. Fielding Darby at the weekly luncheon of the…

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Railway Picnic

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 4

More than 1000 railwaymen, their wives and children attended the annual picnic at Tamworth. Over £50 in prize money was distributed…

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War Review Germany's Handicaps Army Short Of Officers Railway System Strained Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 5

Of all the cruel and brumal acts by which a barbarous people has horrified the world none has created such a feling of revulsion as the…

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Road Safety Council Branch For Grafton Public Meeting To-night

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 March 1940 · page 4

It was not until 1935 that the severity of road accidents, and the serious wastage of human life caused by them, focussed public attention on…

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Special Train to Lismore To-morrow

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 4

Clarence River residents who wish to visit Lismore to-morrow and return the same day may take advantage of the special train which will leave Grafton…

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Branch Formed Road Safety Council Public Meeting At Grafton Address by Commissioner of Transport

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 4

"This meeting of citizens of Grafton and district recommends that in view of the increasing number of road accidents throughout the State…

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Q'sland Floods Railway Blocked. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 5

Torrential downpours have again occurred in the far north, and this morning rivers and creeks between Cairns and Innisfail were in flood,…

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"Mock Funeral" Communists On Railways Attack by Col. Bruxner. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 5

A sensational denunciation of the "mock funeral," the presence of the Communistic element in the railways and the alleged control of Broken Hill…

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Road Erosion Near Nymboida Power-House Water Causes Damage Letter From Main Roads Department

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 6

A the monthly meeting of the Nymb[?] Shire Council at South Grafton yesterday morning the Divisional Engineer of the Main…

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Car Smashes Drink And Speed Interviews with Death. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 3

In the file of the Road Safety Council there are some amazing stories of violent deaths, and yet all of them have explanations that are…

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Freighter Damaged Struck By Motor Ship Russian Sailor Feared Dead. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1940 · page 5

Efforts to-day by the crews or two tugs saved a 3000 tons Union freighter from sinking, after it had been struck amidships by an 11,000 ton Blue Star…

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"Danger to Public" Stallions On Road Their Destruction Requested Orara Shire Council Meeting

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 2

At a meeting of the Orara Shire Council held at South Grafton yesterday morning, a letter was received from H. S. Martin, of Tucabia,…

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Work to Cease on Railway Siding

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 4

About a fortnight ago a gang of men commenced work on a new siding at Sawtell, and with much of the work completed, the men were given notice…

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Ambulance Road Signs?

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 4

Bellingen Shire Council, at the request of the District Ambulance, has decided to bring before the Main Roads Department and the Ambulance…

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Road Criticised "Worst In Commonwealth" Grafton-lawrence Highway Lawrence P.P.U. Complain to Shire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 6

The Grafton-Lawrence road was described as the "worst main road in the Commonwealth" by the Lawrence P.P. Union in a letter which…

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Damage to Roads

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2

The Shire Engineer (Mr. E. J. Smith) drew the Council's attention in his report to last meeting to rapid deterioration of the gravelled…

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By Railway German Coal for Italy. Rome

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 5

Italy and Germany have reached agreement for the shipment of coal to Italy by railway. It is officially stated that the…

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Driver Killed Car And Tram Collide Woman Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 1

Robert Mann, 30. of Surrey Hills, was killed instantly when a car he was driving crashed into a tram at South Yarra shortly before midnight on…

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On Railway Line Woman's Headless Body Found Near Newcastle. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 4

Mrs. Dulcie Whitton, 22, of Mary street, Cardiff, was decapitated by a train, near Cardiff railway station, early this morning…

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Spectacular Landing Airliner At Coff's Harbor Aerodrome Under Water. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 4

Landing amidst a cloud of fine spray this afternoon, the south-bound Stinson airliner from Brisbane, in charge of Pilot Pollock, made a…

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