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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1941

688 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 35

Farmers and Roads

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 4

At a meeting of Casino Municipal Council, Ald. O. V. Small stated that farming families were being forced off the land owing to the lack of suitable…

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None Available For Road Work Married Men All Employed Department Explains to Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 3

At the South Grafton Municipal Council meeting last night a letter was received from the Department of Labor and Industry, stating that…

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Train Strike Six Ran in S.A. A 24-Hour Hold-Up Monition Workers Transported, Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 5

Only six trains ran this morning owing to the 24-hour railway strike and they carried munition workers to factories where they are employed…

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Motorists' Corner (Official R.A.C.A. Notes by "Carbon") Petrol Storage

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 4

Storage appears to be one of the main problems affecting Australia's petrol and oil supplies, and exhaustive enquiries by the Royal…

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Engine Wrecked When Bridge Collapsed Driver and Fireman Killed. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 April 1941 · page 5

Steam from a wrecked engine prevented rescuers from going to the assistance of two men who died to-day when their train was wrecked…

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Bridge Evening Next Wednesday's Function

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 6

A bridge evening, organised by members of the Grafton Women's Auxiliary for the Grafton Farewells Committee of the C.R.D. Patriotic and…

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Death Free Easter? On Country Roads

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 1

It is a sad commentary on our vaunted civilisation that whenever holidays occur they are marked by accidents, involving death, sorrow…

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Train Stopped Second in S.A. ADELAIDE

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 6

The second complete stoppage of the trains throughout the State, except for the conveyance of munition workers to factories, took place to-day. The…

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Struck by Car Charges Against Motorist. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 6

Following the death of Frederick Alfred Scales (49), of Roselle, in hospital to-night after being knocked down by a car at Roselle, a man was…

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Prospecting by Plane Nymboida Miners Finding Road of Access

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 2

Messrs. Bradley and Liddell, the owners of the Nymboida coal mines, carried out a preliminary survey of one of their mining propositions by…

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THE C.R. Patriotic Fund. for Those Serving (Allied also with the A.C. Fund.) Bridge Evening Parish Hall To-morrow Proceeds to Grafton Farewells Committee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 3

Members of the Grafton Women's Auxiliary of the C.R. District Patriotic and War Fund have organised a bridge evening for to-morrow (Wednesday)…

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Ordeal on Convoy Merchant Ship Gallantry During Enemy Aeroplane Attack

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 1

Announcement of awards made recently to the captain, officers and members of the crew of a large British merchant ship, reveals the vessel's ordeal…

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£500 Grant for Road Work

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 4

The shire clerk to the Copmanhurst Shire Council, Mr. H. G. Greenaway, yesterday received a telegram from the Minister for Transport, Colonel…

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Red Rock Bridge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 April 1941 · page 3

Sir,--It took "Constant Visitor" just the neat seventeen days to "nut" out a reply to my letter appearing in the "Daily Examiner" of March 29, and the…

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Fell with Earth Workman Injured Landslide in Cutting Jackadgery Road Works

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 April 1941 · page 4

Robert Henry Chedzey, aged 58. a married man, of No. 60 Railway street, Cook's Hill, Newcastle, who is working on the Jackadgery road…

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Bridge Evening

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 7

The bridge evening held in the Parish Hall, Grafton, on Wednesday night last was a successful one. Despite the rain which fell between 5.30 and 7 p.m…

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Timber and Roads

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 3

At last meeting of Nambucea Shire Council the engineer made special reference in his report to the damage done to roads by heavy loads of…

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Jetty Road Footpath

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 6

Mr. L. O. Martin, Minister Works, has advised Mr. R. S. [?] cent, M.L.A., that he is prepared make a grant of £450 towards…

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Milked Cow While Train Waited

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 3

A correspondent to the Wa[?]chope "Gazette" tells this one: "A passenger by the North Coast mail reports an amusing incident near John's…

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Point Look-Out Road Maintenance Devolves on Dumaresq Council Discussion at Meeting

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 1

"Maintenance of Point Look-Out road is council's own responsibility, and the department will be glad if the council will arrange, as soon as…

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