Flood Silt On Road Real Danger
WOODFORD LEIGH. -- The Wondford Leigh P. and C. Association has decided to approach he Harwood Shire With a view…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
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Motor Cyclist Fined
MACLEAN.--Before Mr. E. I Cocks, S.M. in the Maclean Court of Pitty Sessions. Kenneth S. Woolnough, was charged that at…
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SEVERAL tractors would be available in Grafton within a month as a result of the arrival in Sydney of a shipment of 250. said Mr. K. L. Taylor yesterday. Other farm machinery agents emphasised that the chief shortage experienced was in electric…
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Members of the Grafton Progress Association last night contended that the present South Grafton site was…
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Five or six fettlers and their families who were marooned on Bentley station, about eight miles from Casino, on Saturday…
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SWOLLEN tributaries of the Clarence River are receding almost as rapidly as they rose during the heavy rain at the weekend, but some of the larger roads were still impassable last night. In a wide survey of the…
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WOOLGOOLGA.--A woman was seriously injured when the car in which she was riding, and a truck collided head-on in Beach…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.--The steeplechase at the Murray Bridge races this afternoon was one of the most sensational in South…
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The long delay in receiving the £12000 loan was the subject of much discussion at the meeting of Goffs Urban Committee on Monday…
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ORARA Shire Council decided yesterday to co-operatte with the Tyndale-Lower Clarence branch of the Farmers and Settle's Association in asking the Main Roads Department to construct a new bridge at Coldstream with a wider carriageway…
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A newcomer to the Grafton Cycling Club, Trevor Watkins, off the 2.15 mark, won the club's five, mile Southgate road race…
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ADELAIDE, Sun.--Two persons were killed and two ; injured early to-day, when a, tram and. a light car collided head on at…
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A representative of Munns Bros., South Grafton agents for Butler Airways and New. England Airways, said yesterday that…
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THE Mayor of South Grafton (Aid. J. C. Lane), who recently interviewed aviation authorities in Sydney, advised last night's meeting of South Grafton Council that he was optimistic a modern aerodrome would be acquired for Grafton district…
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The Ambulance received a call on Friday morning to attend an accident case at Korora where Eric Priestly, a visitor…
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WASHINGTON, Monday. Efforts to settle the threatened national rail strike failed again yesterday, and it is now…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--President Truman to-day seized all the United States' railways to avert a "nation-wide tragedy with world-wide repercussions" which, he said, would result from the threatened strike…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Police are searching for two men who stole a Sydney tram early this morning. If was found careering…
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At the monthly meeting of the Advancement League. Mr. J. H. Skeoch sought an expression "whether the Shire Council was on the right track…
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SYDNEY, Thurs:--Road accidents reported in New South Wales during March this year totalled 1071, compared with…
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