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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1944

338 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 17

Railway Laborers Wanted

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1944 · page 2

An innovation has been made so far as railway maintenance gangs are concerned on urgent work now being carried out on…

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Phenomenal Rainfall Over 10 Inches in 12 Hours! District Gets Good Soaking Rivers Up; Roads Scoured; and No Mails!

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 August 1944 · page 2

After a couple of days of light drizzle, the district received an old fashioned deluge, on Wednesday night when the wind veered round to…

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Railway and Port Dohrigo—coffs Viewpoint

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 August 1944 · page 4

Following is the full text of the case put to the Premier (Hon. W. J. McKell) at Grafton recently for the Dorrigo-Guyra-Inverell railway…

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Coal Reserves For Railways Desperately Low

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 August 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Railway coal reserves were now so desperately low the Railway Department was almost…

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Railwaymen Against Daylight Saving

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 August 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Fri.--The reintroduction of daylight saving will be opposed by the Australian Railways Union in New South…

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Tram Conductress Shot Through Heart In Sydney Street

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 August 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY Fri.--Dorothy Joan Davis, tram conductress, aged 30, was shot dead through the heart outside a house near her home in Edgecombe road, Woollahra…

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Motorist Fined Under the Liquid Fuel Control Act

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1944 · page 1

Edgar Raymond Weir was charged in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., with having used motor spirit other…

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371 Killed in Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Three hundred and seventy-one persons were killed, and 4719 injured in 6955 road accidents in New South…

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Railway Link Byrock to Coffs Harbour

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 September 1944 · page 4

One of the first post war works in New South Wales should be the link ing of the western railways, according to Mr. A. C. Blaxland…

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Coff's Harbor Beat Combined Railways

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 September 1944 · page 1

Five hundred patrons were treated to high-class and exciting football when Combined Railway were defeated by Coff's Harbors' Cup team, 22--10…

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Rail Motor Crashes Into Rear Of Train

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1944 · page 1

DUBBO, Mon.--Four men were injured when a rail motor train travelling from Molong to Dubbo this morning crashed into the rear…

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Run Over By Train: Man Fatally Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1944 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Mon--Late on Saturday night,' John Gloyn,. 42, a resident of Unley, South Australia, and employed by the U.S…

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No Special Trains or Trams for Sporting Fixtures

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Orders were issued to-day under National Security Transport Regulations to ban the running until further…

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Hawkesbury River Bridge Span in Position

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 September 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--At high the to-day the first span of the new Hawkesbury River rail bridge, the largest of its kind in Australia,…

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Children Involved In Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 September 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--During the year ended June 30 last, 371 persons were killed and 4719 injured m road accidents in New South…

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S.A. Railwaymen Resume Work

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 September 1944 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tues.--A mass meeting of 5000 railwaymen who had been on strike for two days, to-day decided to return to work…

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Maintenance Of Strategic Roads

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 September 1944 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--The War Cabinet to-day approved of the expenditure of £25,000 for the maintenance of two strategic…

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Railway Strikers To Re Prosecuted

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 September 1944 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--A start has been made with the launching of prosecutions against South Australian rail way men who defied an…

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Football Railways to Play Maclean at Week-end

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 September 1944 · page 4

The South Grafton Railways team will play the Maclean team at Ellis Park, South Grafton, next Sunday after noon at 3.15 o'clock…

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Echo of Road Collison Heard in Armidale District Court Farmer Mulct in Damages

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 8 September 1944 · page 1

Malcolm Claudius Barnier, proprietor of the Grafton Motor Service, was awarded £281 damages against Patrick Francis Fahey farmer…

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