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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1919

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Craven Plateau Road (To the Editor)

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1919 · page 2

Sir,—I would be very much obliged if you would publish this letter in the next issue of your paper. Is it a fact that the Gloucester Shire Council has…

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Railway System Shocking Cruelty

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 July 1919 · page 1

Mr. J. M'Intosh, of Klacatoo, near Condobolin (N.S.W.), has many hard words to say about the State railway system…

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Mr. Clarence Bridge

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1919 · page 4

Mr. Clarence Bridge, with a life's experience of the wool trade, has joined forces with Hill, Clark & Co., Ltd., where he will as wool appraiser under the present…

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Main Roads. Deputation to Minister

The Northern Champion · Saturday 2 August 1919 · page 4

A deputation representing extraordinarily wide interests waited upon the Minister for Local Government, Mr. Fitzgerald, to place before him…

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Railway Smash

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1919 · page 5

The correspondent of "The Times" at Moscow reports that bandits derailed a train at Bachmatsch (on the railway from Kieff to Moscow). A…

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Do You Want Motor Car?

Macleay Argus · Thursday 7 August 1919 · page 4

"What a silly question," you say, "Is there anybody who doesn't? except the man who has two or three." But even he isn't satisfied, he would…

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Railway Returns

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 August 1919 · page 4

The first mouth since the extension of the railway to Macksville closed on July 30th, and the returns published below will-show that these are…

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Official Railway Inspection

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 August 1919 · page 4

On Wednesday last Mr. Charles James, District Superintendent, and Mr. H. Vogan, Divisional Engineer, arrived by train in Macksville…

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Italian Aeroplane Disaster

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1919 · page 2

Fourteen persons, including five well-known Milanese Journalists, were killed in an aeroplane disaster in Italy…

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National Main Roads Policy

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 August 1919 · page 8

One of the gratifying results of the vigorous currying out of the main and developmental roads, system in Victoria, under the…

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A Big Aeroplane. the Thrills of a Flight in the World's Biggest Boming Machine

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1919 · page 7

"It was lovely smash 1" said my guide, showing me a photograph of the wreckage of an aeroplane, the body of. which looked like a factory…

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Do You Want a Motor Car

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 August 1919 · page 2

"What a silly question" you say, "Is there anybody who doesn't? except the man who has two or three. But even he isn't satisfied; he would…

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Temagog Bridge

Macleay Argus · Thursday 14 August 1919 · page 4

Mr. Morton has been advised by the Under-Secretary for Local Government that unless the Macleay Shire Council can see its way to make…

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Roads Loan. Mr. Holman Announces Proposal. to Raise £2,000,000. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Thursday 14 August 1919 · page 5

Mr. Holman announced at Tenterfield that it was proposed to raise a loan of £2,000,000 to construct and repair public roads of the State, of which…

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Where Are the Roads?

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 August 1919 · page 7

AMERICA'S highways are being motorised, so are Australia's. Motor vehicles are pushing out into the rural districts, achieving economic victories against the odds…

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Main Roads

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1919 · page 2

The Minister for Local Government anounced to the annual conference of the Institute of Local Government Engineers last week that he hoped…

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Death in the Train

Macleay Argus · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 5

When near Gosford on the way from Kempsey to Sydney on Sunday, Mrs. Matilda Elizabeth Jones, aged 58, wife of Mr. Thomas W. Jones, of…

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Railway Operations

Macleay Argus · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 4

The annual report of the Railway Commissioners has been presented to the Government. Railway earnings for the year were £9, 958,173, and working…

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Preparations for Attack. Capture of Villages. Warlike Motor Boats. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph's" Stockholm correspondent says that Yudenitch in conjunction with the Esthonians has definitely agreed to a common attack…

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Road Tenders

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 4

At the Hastings Shire Council meeting on Monday the following tenders were accepted at schedule rates:-- Manning turn-off to Wauchope,…

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