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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1919

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Improvement of Main Roads

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 3

The Hon. Walter Bennett, M.L.A., informs us that the Minister for Local Government, the Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald, intends during the coming session…

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Motor Car Thieves

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 2

There is a fortune awaiting the man who invents a simple device for locking a motor car so that an enterprising theif cannot drive off with…

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Visit of Railway Commissioners

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 4

Mr. Reid, President of the Chamber of Commerce, informed the meeting on Monday evening that during the month he had seen some of the…

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Craven Plateau Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1919 · page 2

Mr. Connell, Shire Engineer, Informs, us that good progress is being made with Craven Plateau road, where already half a mile of the construction…

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Railway Needed New England to the Coast

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1919 · page 2

One of the outstanding lessons of the present prolonged drought in the north and north-west is the urgent] necessity for a cross-country railway…

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Cattle on Railway Line

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1919 · page 2

As the Taree mail was nearing Word's River on Wednesday last a mob of cattle had a hard try to beat the train into the station, with…

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The Bulga Railway Proposal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 August 1919 · page 2

While in Sydney last week the President of the Manning Shire Council had an interview with the Hon. W. G. Ashford with regard to the…

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Coming Events. Railway to Bulga[?] Governor's Visit

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 27 August 1919 · page 2

Councillor H. Machin, president of the council the Shire of Manning, returned from a visit to Sydney on Friday. When he was in the city in…

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Railway Commissioners' Visit

Macleay Argus · Thursday 28 August 1919 · page 4

Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A., has been advised by the Secretary for Railways that the Commissioners anticipate reaching Kempsey at about 8 a.m. on…

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Railway Collison. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 28 August 1919 · page 5

A number of trucks and a guard's van broke away from a coal train between Eskbank and Wallerawang yesterday and collided with a stationary…

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Fatal Motor Accodent. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 28 August 1919 · page 5

Three men were killed and two others and a woman injured by a motor car colliding with a tree at High-street, Bendigo…

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Visit of Railway Commissioners

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 4

A telegram was received from Mr G. S. Briner, M.L.A., yesterday, stating that the Railway Commissioners will leave Sydney for the North Coast via Kempsey…

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City Railway. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 30 August 1919 · page 4

According to Information furnished in the Assembly, the sum of £839,993 has already been expended, in connection with the city railway, mostly in…

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The Bulga Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 3 September 1919 · page 2

"Manning River Times." says: We are informed that there is every probability of the Bulga, railway being constructed Reports from Sydney…

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Horse Dies at Sight of Aeroplane

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1919 · page 4

A STRANGE incident is reported from Wangaratta. An aeroplane travelling from Melbourne to Sydney developed engine trouble when near Beechworth Junction…

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The Road. Showing That a Still Road May Run Deep

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1919 · page 7

It stretches from the little town of A to the little village of B, behind the enemy's linen—a long, brown, curving road, raised slightly above…

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Railway Motor Service

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 September 1919 · page 2

Mr. Fraser, Chief Railway Commissioner, informed a deputation at Lismore that it was proposed to institute a railway motor service between…

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New England to the Coast Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 September 1919 · page 2

Writing to the "S.M. Herald" in connection with the necessity for railway communications between the Northern line and the North Coast,…

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Prospective Aeroplane Visit

Macleay Argus · Thursday 11 September 1919 · page 4

In another part of this paper appears an advertisement relating to the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Company's scheme for assisting the Peace…

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Telegrams. Shires' Conference. Main Roads' Vote Subsidising. a Protest. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 11 September 1919 · page 5

The Shires' Conference yesterday decided to protest against the innovation requiring Councils to subsidise above 50 per cent. of the main roads' vote…

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