Aerodrome Lights Functioning Well
Following a recent complaint that the radio sets could not be used at the aerodrome when the landing lights were switched on, we have been…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
510 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 26
Our Roads
Dear Sir, I notice the shire rates have increased for the coming year. This will allow the shire extra money to put dirt in the existing holes…
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Stressing the desperate position of road and brige constuction and maintenance within the Shire area with all his vigour and with great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed In Fall From Train
SYDNEY, Friday.--A country girl, who was to be married in about a week, was killed this morning when she fell…
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South Grafton Council decided last night to ask the Department of Main Roads what decision had been made regarding a combined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Unions Behind Move For New College Site
Railway unions, were behind a move to change the proposed site of a new Grafton Technical College from the Craig street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hawthorneville Road Works Estimates
PRELIMINARY estimates for projected road reconstruction works in the Hawthorneville area, with the object of providing for heavy motor traffic, were submitted by the consulting engineer (Mr. J. W. Campbell) to the South Grafton Council on…
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MACLEAN.--At a meeting of the Tyndale Farmers and Settlers in Maclean, the president (Mr. W. J.-Benson),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Road Grants From Petrol Tax
CANBERRA. Thursday.-- The allocation from petrol tax revenue for the maintenance of roads in country municipal areas may be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Says Young Motor Cyclists a Menace
SYDNEY, Thurs.-- A Road Safety Council official said today that young motor cyclists had come to be regarded as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Means Of Improving Grafton Aerodrome
"A feature of the development of Southern Rhodesia is the great use made of aeroplanes in helping to solve rural…
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LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).--If someone had not pulled the communication cord of the Glasgow-London express, 22 persons would not have lost their lives and another 34 would have escaped injury. When the night express stopped at Winsford, Cheshire, a…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--A man and a girl were admitted to hospital to-day badly injured following two smashes involving motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Disaster Dsathruul
LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).--The death rill in the Cheshire railway disaster is now 24…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Traveller Had no Ticket
"Pass," said Richard James Kirkman (28), a fitter, when asked to show his ticket on the North Coast Mail train. The ticket examiner was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle And Bicycle In Collision
A motor cycle ridden by Claude James McLeay (20), of Peat's Ridge, via Gosford, and a bicycle ridden by Rex Brown (11), a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CYCLING. Exciting Finish In Road Race
Allen Olive, off scratch, won the Grafton Cycle Club's, road race over the Southgate course. He also gainec fastest time for the event. He was…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--With a view to reducing car prices, the Tariff Board has decided to inquire into the possibility of…
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In an Interesting resume on his trip by New England Airways aircraft to Brisbane Ald. M. V. Durrington, last night…
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ALD. M.. J. Hutchison at last night's meeting of South Grafton Council, bitterly at what he termed "too much fiddling around" with the aerodrome proposals for the Clarence. He advised council that he…
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