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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1921

438 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 9 of 22

Aeroplane Smash. Three Killed. Machine in "Back-Wash" Sunday Afternoon Fatality

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 2

Port Melbourne was the scone of a calamitous aeroplane smash on Sunday afternoon. An Avro machine, piloted by…

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Motor Capsizes. Five Men Injured

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 3

Five Alstonville residents were injured, one dangerously, in a motor accident when returning from Byron Bay on Sunday night…

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Railway Accident. Elderly Man Killed at Kempsey

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 3

A railway accident occurred at Kempsey on Monday morning last by which an elderly man named John Turner Lee, aged 56 years, lost his…

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Crescent Head Road

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 May 1921 · page 4

Since the recent rains about two miles of the corduroyed road to Crescent Head have been covered with water from one to three feet deep. On…

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Upper Five Day Creek Road

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 May 1921 · page 7

Mr. H. H. McMaugh, of Upper Five Day Creek, writes:-- Sir,-- I trust you can find space in your paper to print for me this protest…

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Railway Time-table

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 May 1921 · page 4

Mr. Attwill, Kempsey stationmaster, received the new winter time-table yesterday. There are no alterations in the passenger service to and from…

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Fatal Aeroplane Crash

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 4

AT Port Melbourne on Sunday an aeroplane, carrying two passengers on a joy ride, and piloted by Mr. Hubert Ross, a partner in the Shaw-Ross Engineering and…

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Stroud Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 2

Our representative writes On Tuesday May 24th, the Empire Day celebrations took place in the public school premises at…

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Killed by Train

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 4

THE "Macleay Argus" reports that Mr. John Turner Lee, an old Kempsey identity, and a brother of the late Mr. H. W. T. Lee, of Gladstone, was killed by the…

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Iron Road Marvels

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 7

[?] things are done on British railways that the travelling public never sees. The popular notion of a signalman…

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Unsafe Road Foundations

The Northern Champion · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 2

A substantial house on a flimsy foundation would be an absurdity. Yet fine highways are often built over soils that will not bear their weight…

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The Bowman Road. (To the Editor.)

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 2

Dear Sir,— Permit me through the columns of your paper to call the attention of the Shire Council to the state of the Bowman Road…

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Motor Car Smash

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 4

ABOUT 5 p.m. on Sunday a serious motor car accident occurred about two miles out from Ballina, on the Tintenbar-road, when a car containing five residents of…

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Helping the Motorists

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 4

A motorist touring an American State got stalled in a tenacious mud hole. While making a vain attempt to escape, a boy…

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North Coast Railway. Advantages of Freight Ex-superintendent's Opinions. a New State Sympathiser

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1921 · page 1

Mr. Charles James, ex-Superintendent of Railways at Newcastle, says propaganda among North Coast producers had resulted in the railway's share of…

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Railway Yards' Entrance

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1921 · page 2

A letter has been received by the Kempsey Municipal Council from the secretary to the Railway Commissioners regarding the Council's request for…

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Dangerous Road

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 4

During the recent wet weather over a mile of the road between Dulconghi Mountain and Crescent Head was under water, up to four…

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Stock on Railway Line. Horse Killed by Mail Train

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 2

The mail train from Sydney to Macksville was about three hours late arriving at Taree on Monday morning. The cause of the delay was that, the…

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Town Topics. Train Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 4

Monday morning, in a cutting about a mile on Win "ham side of Mount George, the mail train was delayed about three hours through the front…

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Aeroplane in Gloucester. An Australian Record. Lady Passenger makes "Stunt Flight."

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 2

On Monday afternoon the Commercial Aviation Coy's Avro machine piloted by Capt. Hawkins, with Miss Lillian Phillips and Capt…

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