"Main Roads Board Outlined Its Usefulness
MACLEAN, Fri.—"The Main Roads Board has just about outlived its usefulness." said Cr. N. J. Cameron at a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
628 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 32
Highway To Sawtell As Main Road?
The question of the proclamation of the loop road from the Pacific Highway to Sawtell as a main road is under consideration…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Under Secretary of the Premier's Department (Mr. Roper) has told the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that the recently disbanded inquiry into the N.S.W. railway services should be continued. Mr. Roper's recommendation was contained…
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KEMPSEY, Fri.—In the Kempsey Police Court this morning, Douglas Francis Hardie, 22, labourer, of Macksville,…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—Caught between an electric train and the platform at Milson's Point late last night Alastair McPhee (23),…
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MACLEAN.—Cr. Moloney told Harwood Shire Council it was shocking the way the department was holding up,…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—A Strathfield railway porter, suffering terrible injuries, was found lying beside the line at Strathfield this…
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"THE letter almost carries with it a promise, and we may get somewhere," said Ald. N. T. Owen at last night's meeting of Grafton City Council, referring to a letter from the Minister for Civil Aviation…
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Leslie Lawrence Dobbin, railway fettler, of Maclean, was fined £10 by Mr. E. I. Cocks, S.M., in the Grafton Court of…
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A young motor cyclist, Allan Robert Dicks, of Little Pound street, Grafton, was fined 13/, with 7/ costs, in the Grafton…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—British engineers working in secret at London and Birmingham factories have reached an…
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Four members of the staff of the Department of Civil Aviation arrived at Kempsey last week to start work on an…
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On his return from a visit to Sydney, the Tomki Shire Engineer (Mr. H. E. Steel), said it was expected Casino Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Horses Bite And Chew Aeroplane Fabric
Horses grazing in a paddock at Muswellbrook where an aircraft was left unguarded by the owner, accorded it strange…
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It was disclosed by the Engineer (Mr. F. Dodd) at Wednesday's meeting of Dorrigo Shire Council that he…
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A young lad, E. Bell, of Waratah, son of Sgt. and Mrs. G. Bell, last night received gashes to the right cheek when…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs.—A two-year-old boy, Eric Bell, of Waratah, received a lacerated wound oh his right…
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BELLINGEN.—Bellingen Shire Council has considered a programme of works for submission under the Department of Public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Dept. "High Handed," Says President
BELLINGER.—"Typical high-handed attitude" was one of the expressions used by the President (Cr. R. R. Wolfe)…
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KEMPSEY, Monday.—Stated to have first priority, work has commenced on the enlargement to more than twice its present size of the Aldavilla aerodrome at Kempsey. Surveyors are now at work re-designing the whole layout of the new improved…
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