Dorrigo Level Grossing Smash Man Receives Extensive Injuries Motor Lorry Wrecked in Collision with Goods Train
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 1
When a goods train and motor lorry collided at a level crossing close to Dorrigo late on Monday afternoon, the driver of the lorry received extensive injuries and the vehicle was badly smashed. The man is Colin Roy Spokes, 27, married, of Bellingen, who is…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 5
Drastic action by the Government to meet the drift in railway finances was urged in the Legislative Assembly by the Deputy…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 4
In the Legislative Assembly Mr. S. T. Stephens (C.P. Byron) asked whether it was a fact that the regulations controlling the dimming of…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 1
LOS ANGELES, Friday.— Found guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a 14-year-old boy, former world tennis…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 2
COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri.—Abnormally heavy thieving of railway property had taken place during the past year, said…
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Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 6
COFF'S HARBOUR, Sunday.— Two men who appeared in the Coff's Harbour Police Sourt on Friday on charged connected with…
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Daily Examiner · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 3
AT the meeting last week of the Nymboida Shire Council, the urgency of work on the Armidale road and the Glen Innes road was stressed by the councillors. It was decided on the motion of Cr. B. Sinclair, that the…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 3
Grafton would be the forgotten city unless some action was taken immediately to construct a suitable aerodrome,…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 3
Thefts of property from Coffs Aerodrome were cleared up by the local police and had their sequel before Mr. G. L. Betty, PM, at the…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 8
Unless the Federal Government disgorges some of the many millions pounds it collects from motorists through the petrol tax…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 5
Dudley Percy; Charles Redman (24) was fined £2 and ordered to pay £1 13s 8d rail fare when he pleaded guilty at Coffs Police Court last…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 1
Mr. Colin Spokes, of Kalang Road, Bellingeri, is in the Bellinger District Hospital with serious injuries following an accident near Dorrigo…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2
The Ulmarra Municipal Council decided to advise the Clarence Regional Development Committee that council…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2
Grafton Ratepayers' Association request for the immediate improvement to streets west of Turf street was supported at last…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 3
When Ernest Frederick Johnstone (38) was charged at Coffs police Courtwith having driven a motor vehicle whilst imder the…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2
COFF'S HARBOUR, Monday.—Mr. A. J. Wallace who, for the past nine years, have been employed on the staff at the Coff's…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2
COFF'S HARBOUR, Tuesday.— Last night, a city business man, Mr. Gordon Ross, a traveller on the Brisbane-Sydney express, was…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 4
GOFF'S HARBOUR, Tuesday.—The Coff's Harbour Cycle club will include motor paced;. events in its programme for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Troops Control Road Round Hanoi
Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1
PARIS, Wednesday.— French troop in Indo-China have gained complete control of the important circular road running round…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— From Monday next, children With half fare tickets will be allowed to occupy railway sleeping berths on…
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