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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 5 of 17

EDITORIAL. On Road To Rome

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 4

With the virtual destruction of Cassino by heavy air assault from Allied bombers the way is again open for the push to…

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Lismore Mystery Of Body Under Bridge Still Unsolved

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 4

LISMORE, Thurs.--Bloodstains near a road about 70 yards from the bridge under which the battered body of…

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Train Berths and Seats

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

As from Monday, March 27tn. applications for sleeping berths for travel to stations in New South Wales, except by inter-state…

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The Fernbrook Road P.O.W. Labour Suggested

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 2

After a good deal of correspondence by the Fernbrook Branch of the P.P. Union, in an endeavour to have the Fernbrook Road completed…

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Resumption Of Manufacture In Motor Industry

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Evidence was accumulating that the resumption of manufacture in motor industry before the end of the…

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P.O.W. in Jap Hands Die Building Railway

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 March 1944 · page 3

CHUNGKING, Mon.--The Ministry for Information said a Korean named Chung Chihping, former translator for the…

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Found Shot in Motor Car

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Shot at point-blank range by two gunmen shortly before 10 o'clock last night, Ronald (George)…

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Guyra-dorrigo Railway— Armidale Rail Conference

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 1

During the recent Congress on Regional development which took place at Armidale, advantage was taken of the presence of delegates from the…

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Railway Enginemen To Get Higher Pay For Sunday Work

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--Locomotive enginemen employed on the New South Wales railways will in future be paid time and a half for…

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Fell From Train: Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3

DUBBO, Sun.--Gordon Dixon. 9, of Minore, fell from the fast moving Bourke mail, train yesterday when the door against which…

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Injured Man Gives Version Of Bus-Train Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--With two broken arms and a broken leg, Raphal Italiano, 63, laborer, of Brooklyn, was carried into the…

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German Troop Train Derailed By Poles

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Mon.--Polish underground forces at the beginning of March carried out one of the war's greatest acts of sabotage,…

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Brooklyn Smash. Gatekeeper Says Job Most Monotonous On Railway

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--An admission that he had left the crossing gates open about half an hour before the smash to allow…

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Poley Bridge

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 April 1944 · page 3

On Wednesday, March 15, a large and representative gathering assembled at the horned of Mr., A. Russell to partake in a euchre tournament in aid of…

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Speeding Across Crimea Russians Capture Ozhankoi. Important Railway Junction and Kerch, Enemy Stronghold

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 April 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--General Tolbukhin's drive across the Crimea is going successfully and speedily, as indicated by the capture of Ozhankoi, which is 53 miles north from Simferopol, and is the peninsula's most Important railway junction…

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Trams Collide In Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 April 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--When two trams, carrying city-bound workers. collided at an intersection at Coogee this morning, 12 people…

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Fernbrook Road Dept. Unable to Proceed with Re-construction Promised As Post-war Job

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 14 April 1944 · page 2

The Hon. D. H. Drummond, M.L.A., has been informed by the Secretary of the Dept. of Main Roads, N.S.W., that the Dept. is unable to proceed…

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Railway Spokesman Says Transport Minister Talking Through Hat

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A statement to-day by the Transport Minister, Mr. O'Sullivan, that there would be no further overcrowding on…

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Nymboida Shire to Have District Road Dedicated

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1944 · page 3

The president (Cr. L. G. Waugh), presided at the monthly meeting of the Nymboida Shire Council, held yesterday, when it was decided to apply…

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BURMA. No Strategic Importance In Cutting Of Road

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Thurs.--"There is no strategic importance in small parties cutting the Manipur Road, but tactically it is a…

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