A New Aeroplane Bomb
Enemy aeroplanes operating, from Kovel, are using a new form of aeroplane bomb, which is exceptionally efficient. It is an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1917
241 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 13
Brown's Creek Bridge
Councillor McKinnon has arranged with Mr. Ward, Shire Engineer, that he will endeavour to have plans and specifications ready to submit to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Road to Success
Two boys left home with just money enough to take them through college. They both did well at college, took their diplomas in due…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wauchope-Kempsey Railway Section
Although many promises have been made that rails to complete the above section would be shortly forthcoming, says the "Argus." there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freak Motor-cycles
The oddest thing yet constructed in the motor-cycle line is a curious mount designed to transport four passengers, with the foremost man sitting on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children's Corner. Persia's First Railway
Persia's first railway has been opened to traffic. It runs from Jhulfa, on the frontier of Russian Transcaucasia, to the ancient Persian city…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →That Mondrook Road. To the Editor
SIR,—It is to be hoped that the new Shire Council will give short shrift to the Mondrook request, for a new road to Taree. The half-a-dozen families…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Motors
The motor colnmn in "Daily Telagraph" of last Saturday gives a vivid account of the road difficulties encountered by Messrs. Juwell and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Letter Box. (To the Editor.) Macksville-wirrimbi Road
Sir,--Now that we have heard so much of the good qualities of the Acting Shire Engineer, why doesn't he put that piece of road at Beaton's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Progress
It is satisfactory to report progress in regard to the North Coast railway, says the "Argus." Two or three shiploads of rails have arrived,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commonwealth of Australia. Department of Works and Railways. Melbourne, January 30, 1917. (To the Editor.)
Sir,—On November 14, 1916, the control of the Commonwealth Works and Hallways was severed from the Home Affairs Office and centred in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Car Subscriptions
The organising secretary (reports that he has received a cheque for £15 from Miss Eadith Walker, "Yaralla," Concord, as a contribution towards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brushing Roads
Cr. Connors expressed his deter- mination at Tuesday's meeting to introduce a motion whereby the whole of the works construction throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Main Roads Vote
Cr. Wallace informed the Shire meeting on Tuesday that it was time the Councillors got to work in securing the balance due on the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Letter Box. (To the Editor.) Roads. Roads
Sir,--A writer, "Red Clay," in your last issue is finding fault with a little piece of formation near the hill at Beaton's on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Marriage Certificates. Demand Upon Railway Navvies
Members of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Union are expressing dissatisfaction in consequence of an order stated by Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Letter Box. Roads! Roads! (To the Editor.)
Sir,--May I take up a little of your space to say that I consider "Hard Gravel" is a long way wide of the mark when he refers to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Letter Box. Shire Roads. (To the Editor.)
SIR,--Kindly allow me space in your widely-read newspaper to reply to a late press writer "autoocrat" signing himself "Hard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Killed by Motor Car
On Tuesday afternoon an accident occurred on the Gumma Road about a mile and a half from the Macksville Post Office, to a lad named…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Railway. Wauchope to Kempsey
The difficulty in procuring rails for the above section assumed a most serious aspect last year, due largely to the coal strike and the…
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