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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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The North Coast Railway

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 3
Also in Macleay Argus

A large and representative meeting was held at Beilingen lately, under the auspices of the Bellingen Railway League. Delegates from all parts of…

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North Coast Railway

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 4

The Gloucester Estate was offered to the Government for the purpose of closer settlement, at 10s per acre, and was refused by them long before the Carruthera…

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Comboyne Road. Hastings Shire's Decision

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 3

We publish the following taken from the report of the last meeting of the Hastings Shire Council, feeling it will be of interest to our readers :—…

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Bridge at Cameron's Crossing. Opening Ceremony

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 August 1907 · page 6

THE opening ceremony in connection with the bridge at Cameron's Crossing, Hastings River, took place on Wednesday last. Visitors were present from all parts of the…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes. From the Dunlop Rubder Co. of Australisia Limited

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 August 1907 · page 3

When the well-known English motorist, S. F. Edge who by the way is a Sydney native proposed to motor 60 miles an hour for 24 consecutive hours on the Brooklands…

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The Rule of the Road. What the Dial Told. by John Fleming-wilson

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 6

The cargo steamer Amphion was drumming through the fog off Tillamook Head, on the Oregon coast. The [?] was stamping backwards…

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Original Poetry. the Coming Railway

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 8

Oh !hasten, North Coast Railway,Oh! tarry not, I pay, For anxious hearts are waiting Your quick advent this way…

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LAURIETON. v. the Bridge

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 28 August 1907 · page 2

In the final match between Laurieton and Camden Haven Bridge teams, the former won by 9 points to nil…

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Road to the Comboyne. Discussion in the Hastings Shire Council

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 28 August 1907 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Hastings Shire Council the following discussion ensued respecting the most suitable road to the Comboyne : -- The President moved: --" That this Council is of…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 August 1907 · page 7

The Professional World's Championships for 1907 decided recently in Paris resulted in e. Friol (France) winning the sprint race from Mayor and Rutt both of whom…

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Correspondence. News in so way identified with the op[?] expressed by Correspondents. Comboyne Roads. to the Editor

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 5

Sir,—I have been directed by the Central and West Com boy ne Progress Association to contradict through your journal certain untrue and…

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Motor Funerals

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 9

The funeral motor car was bound to reach us sooner or later, and it was only fitting that an innovation so logical should come from Germany,…

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The N.C. Railway and its Declaimers

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 August 1907 · page 6

DESPITE what is professed to the contrary, there is a strong feeling on the Richmond and Tweed against the North Coast Railway, and it would…

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Comboyne Roads. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 4 September 1907 · page 3

SIR,-- I have been directed by the Central and West Comboyne Progress Association to contradict, through your journal, certain misleading statements made by Mr. Paff and Mr. Muldoon at the recent…

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Awful Bridge Catastrophe

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 3

LATE cables state that a section of eight hundred feel, of the great cantilever bridge, said to to be the largest of its kind in the world, which is being constructed across…

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Drag for Levelling Roads

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 8

The Illustration given herewith is taken from the Road Red Book of New York. The lover "split log: drag" is made as shown by using two…

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Cycling and Motoring Note[?]

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 7

The Dunlop Rubber Co. report a great demand fop their latest artistic booklet, "All about Dunlop Tyres for 1907-8," and no wonder, for the production is a…

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Colla[?] of a Bridge

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 2

The large [?]tilver bridge in the world, which [?] building over the River St.[?]ce at Quebee has collapsed…

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North Coast Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 8

The "M.R. Times" writes :—Mr. Surveyor Jamieson and party have removed their camp from the bacon factory paddock, Wingham, to…

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