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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1917

241 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 13

The High Road

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1917 · page 6

Oh, once you were a bridle path, An hundred years and more ago, Across the hills, and o'er the hills, Your slender was you went…

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Our Sydney Letter. Railway Troubles

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1917 · page 3

One of the contingencies to be expected if the P.L.L. crowd is returned to power, is a strike of railway employees. Victoria is the…

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Manning Shire Council. a Coopernook Road

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 4 May 1917 · page 7

Cr. Newton made an earnest appeal for some work being done on the road loading from Coopernook to the railway station, and described…

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New Road Scheme. Cr. Well's Scheme Adopted. Cr. Stitt Opposes the Grader

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 4 May 1917 · page 5

An interesting discussion took place at the rotating of the Shire Council on Tuesday in connection with Cr. Wells's scheme for the construction and…

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Railway Works

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 May 1917 · page 4

Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following communication from the Department of Public Works: "With reference to the…

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Brown's Creek Bridge

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 4

Matters in connection with the construction of a bridge across Brown's Creek on the Krambach-Bunya road were not moved on one…

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Stroud Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 3

On Friday evening at the Methodist Church, Stroud Road, the friends of Stound and Stroud Road met together to spend a…

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New Road Scheme

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 4

The nine councillors who attended the regular, meeting of the Council on Tuesday must be accorded a word of praise for the earnest manner in which they, individually and collectively, attacked the big road problem. They realised that the time was…

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CORRESPONDENCE. Big Swamp Road

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 3

Mr. G. Korn wrote, drawing attention to the condition of Curley's road, in the vicinity of the Big Swamp…

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New Road System. a Big Scheme Adopted, Adopted. Councillor Stitt Opposes the Grader

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 4

An interesting discussion took place at the meeting of the shire council on Tuesday in connection with Cr. Well's scheme for the…

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North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1917 · page 4

A DEPUTATION waited on the Minister for Works on Monday to urge the continuation of the construction of the 7th and 8th sections of the North…

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Aeroplane Raid

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1917 · page 2

An hostile aeroplane dropped four bombs on the outskirts of north-east London, killing one man and injuring a man and a…

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The Open Road

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 May 1917 · page 6

As the homeless long for home, I am weary for the sight of it, The swerve of it; the curve of it, the shadow-dappled white of it…

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North Coast Railway

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 9 May 1917 · page 6

A deputation wailed on the Minister for Works on Monday to urge the continuation of the construction of 7th and 8th…

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Special Train

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 11 May 1917 · page 4

Commenting on the special train to Dungog Show "Eastern Telegraph" (the editor of which is the genial Jack McLeod) says:— An aspect of the way…

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Leaving Open a Road Gate

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 May 1917 · page 2

A stock inspector recently laid an information against a man for leaving open a gate in a rabbit proof fence on a road. The magistrate,…

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Bowraville-Wilson Road. a Block Removed

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 May 1917 · page 6

Acting Engineer Patterson informed the Council on Tuesday that be had put Houley on the Wilson-- Bowraville road. He had informed…

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Closing Down Railway Works

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 May 1917 · page 5

Persistent rumors have been afloat during the week that works on the Section--Kempsey to Macksville-- were to close down temporarily…

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Railway to Kempsey

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 May 1917 · page 4

Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following communication from the Public Works Department:-- "With reference to your…

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Deputation. Railway Commissioners at Taree

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 May 1917 · page 5

On Friday morning Messrs. Fraser and Cann, Railway Commissioners and a number of officials of the permanent staff, called at Taree, on…

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