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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1912

386 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 14 of 20

A Train-load of Monkeys

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 2

A plague of monkeys some years ago sorely troubled the officials at a small [?] the Saran Railway, in North-West India. Trucks…

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Local and General (A Card) J. M. Hooke, Solicitor & Conveyancer Park Road, Gloucester. (Near Royal Hotel.) Literary Institutes

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 8

The School of Arts throughout the States have received a communication from the Department of Public Instruction setting forth the new…

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Railway Collision in Melbourne. SYENEY

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 4

A SERIOUS collision has occurred in Melbourne between two trains. Two passengers were killed, and between 50 and 60 more or less seriously injured…

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Elephant in a Motor Car

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 11

A Swiss, residing ac Siantar in the Island of Sumatra, has written home an account, of the capture and transportation of a young wild…

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Town Topics. Councils and Motor Traffic

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 4

Harwood Shire Council recently urged the Government, through Mr. Q, S. Briner, M.L.A., to amend the law relating to the control of motor…

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Proposed Road Bowraville Macksville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 4

Correspondence in relation to this road was read at the Council meeting from Leonard and Co., Nambucca Heads, drawing attention made by…

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Bellinger-Dorrigo Road. No Special Subsidy

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 4

The Public Works Department wrote last week to the Council with reference to a special grant or £7000 for the Bellingen-Dorrigo road…

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The Busiest Railway Station

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 5

According to "Engineering" the busiest railway station in the world is that of the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, for the total number of passengers arriv[?]…

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Local and General (A Card.) J. M. Hooke, Solicitor & Conveyancer Park Road, Gloucester. (Near Royal Hotel.) Gloucester Water Supply

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 8

At the meeting of the Shire Council held on Monday Last, it was unanimously resolved to recommend the adoption of the scheme submitted by…

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The North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 7

The Minister for Works [?] in the Legislative [?]…

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Our Railway Bridges

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 4

[?]. H. D. Morton and G. S. Briner, M's.L.A., [?] waited upon the Minister for Works and [?] written representations from Kempsey, urged that the railway bridges over the Macleay…

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Bindawalla, Chapter I. the Top Road or the Track?

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 12

It was a perfect autumn day on the year 189—Leslie Raymond as returning from a visit to Eugowra, which was the nearest township to…

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Local and General (A Card.) J. M. Hooke, Solicitor & Conveyancer Park Road, Gloucester. (Near Royal Hotel.) A Presentation

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 4

A meeting of the Anglian Church Chair was held in the vestry after the service on Sunday night, when after appropriate speeches by the…

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North Coast Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 5

Mr. F. E. Wickham, engineer in charge of the construction of the seco d section of the North Coast Railway, has informed a representative…

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Aeroplane Machine Gun

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 5

Successful trials have been made of the new aeroplane machine gun for the United States Army. Two officers in an army aeroplane ascended 600 feet…

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Grassy Bridge, Bowraville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 7

Councillor McCarthy is determined not to allow the opportunity of surrounding the Bowraville residents with every possible advantage of reaching the…

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A Macksville Road

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 8

At the Council meeting last week Councillor Wallace asked the Engineer if anything more had been done to form the road between…

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North Coast Railway

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 13

AFTER three-and-a-half years of strenuous work, the completion of the North Coast railway to the Manning River is now within…

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Cablegrams. LONDON, Tuesday. Shocking Railway Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 11

An appalling railway disaster occurred at Widnes last night. The Chester to Liverpool express was travelling at a high rate of speed…

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Comboyne Roads. to the Editor of the Port Macquarie News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1912 · page 8

SIR,—In your issue of the 31st August, Mr. A. Muscio takes exception to some statements contained in my letter which you so kindly published on the 17th August, and…

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