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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1946

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Railway Trucks To Be Rationed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.-- Railway trucks are to be rationed by 10 per cent front to-morrow. This is another move to save coal by…

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Heavy Losses Of Goods On Railways

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs:-- Despite a ten- fold, increase in the arrests for stealing at railway goods yards, this did not seem to make…

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Robbed While Asleep On Train

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.-- Police are seeking a thief who removed an ex- serviceman's shoe while be was asleep in the Brisbane express…

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Sydney's Third Tramless

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Sydney spent its third tramless Sunday in the same way as the previous two Feeder buses and most…

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Commonsense On The Roads

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 2

COMPARED with the same period last year, statistics for the first four months of 1946 show increases of 31.8 per cent, in road accidents, 47.1 per cent, in persons killed, and 38.7 per cent, in persons injured. In figures which tell a stark story there have…

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Government Grant For Proposed Bridge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 3

BELLINGEN, Mon.--Following Bellingen Shire Council's representations to the Department ol Public. Works regarding the need…

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Programme Of Main Roads Post-War Works

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 4

The New South Wales Department of Main Roads, in its immediate post-war works programme, plans to spend…

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Grafton Council £20,000 Works Loan For Roads, Footpaths

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 2

DETAILS of the Grafton City Council's new loan works programme were submitted to last night's meeting by the Mayor (Ald. O'Brien). The programme totals £22,170, which includes a Government…

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Full Tram Services Next

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Full tram services will be restored in Sydney and Newcastle next Saturday, said the Minister for Transport…

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Road Safety Emphasised At P. And C. Meeting

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 3

The Grafton Rotary Club Was taking the initiative in arranging a public meeting for the discussion of the best method of…

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Tenterfield Keeps Down Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 2

Since the inauguration of the Tenterfield branch of the Road Safety Council the accident rate in the district had considerably…

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Railways May Get More Coal

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs. The Coal Commissioner (Mr. Williams) will examine existing coal stocks, and try to give New South Wales…

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£50,000 Sought For Road Repairs

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 3

The Manning Shire Council has decided to make application to the Federal Government, through Sir Earle Page, M.H.R., for a…

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Construction of Motorways

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Australia's first motorways will be constructed in New South Wales, and the Wollongong district will be…

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City Week-end Trams

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.-- A 50 per cent tram service will run in Sydney and Newcastle next Sunday, it was stated to-day by the Minister…

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Be Careful On The Roads To-day

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 2

Traffic authorities and other interested bodies request parents to warn their children to-day about the dangers on the…

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Bellinger River Bridge Plan

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 2

The Department of Public Works has advised the Bellingen Shire Council that a grant of £500 had been made available…

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The Taloumbi Road

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 2

Sir, --In your issue of July 4 I asked Mr. J. W. Towell, of Dorrigo, how he would overcome the flooding on the old Taloumbi…

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Illegal Possession Of Railway Property

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 3

COFF' S HARBOUR, Tues.-- In the Coff' s Harbour Police Court, before Mr. G. L. Berry, P. M., Walter Gough, safe…

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New Bellinger River, Bridge Advocated

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 7

There had been considerable agitation about the need for the construction of a high- level bridge across the Bellinger River…

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