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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1924

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Cinema on Train

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 14 March 1924 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.—The "Flying Scotsman" express travelling between London and Edinburgh, is the first train to include a "cinema Pullman"…

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Taree Police Court Taree, Monday, March 3. (Before Mr. F. P. Potts, P.m.). Railway Cases

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 14 March 1924 · page 8

Frederick McQuade was fined £1 and 8s costs on a charge of having travelled on the railway without a ticket…

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Our "Lovely" Roads. Rollands Plains

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1924 · page 4

"IT was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wint'ry sea," But that's another matter, and it didn't concern me,…

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Kinchela Bridge

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 2

Mr. R. S. vincent, M.L.A., has forwarded a letter to the Kempsey Chamber of Commerce from Mr. T. B. Cooper, Under-Secretary of the…

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Fruit Train

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 2

In connection with the fruit train, the advt. of which appears on page 4 of this issue, we are asked to state that it will arrive at Wingham at 11…

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The Fruit Train

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 2

The time-table for the arrival of the train bringing fruit to Kempsey for sale on account of the Griffith Co-op.Producers' Co. has been altered. The…

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Wingham Railway League

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 1

A meeting convened for the purpose of discussing the question of agitating for a railway from Wingham to the New England Tableland, was held at…

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Road Tender

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 2

The tender of Charles Anderson, was accepted for certain road work, at £17 per chain—£68—on the motion of Ald. Robinson and Gollan…

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To-night's, Fruit Train

Macleay Argus · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 4

Mr. F. W. Collison informed us this morning that 500 cases of fruit had been booked up to last night, and orders are still pouring in over the…

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Bull Attacks Motor Car

Macleay Argus · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 4

Last night while a Macksville business man was proceeding to Kempsey with his wife and child, all sitting in the front seat, they met with a unique…

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Alteration In Fruit Train Time-table

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 4

ATTENTION is directed to the advertisement notifying the alteration in the time-table of the special fruit train…

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The Fruit Train. Congestion at Kempsey

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 25 March 1924 · page 3

It is questionable if, since the opening of the railway to Kempsey, there has been such congestion as that which prevailed on Friday night last when…

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Fruit Train

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 March 1924 · page 4

The Griffith Producers' Co-operative Company, Ltd., sent a fruit train along the coast last Week end, arriving at Kempsey about 9 o'clock on Friday…

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John's River Road. Fine Piece of Work

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 26 March 1924 · page 2

The work that the Manning Shire Council's crushing and rolling plant has just completed on the Johns River road, near the Hastings Shire…

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Decking for the Bridge

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 4

Last night the steamer Nambucea arrived at Kempsey with the first consignment of decking from Longworths, Limited, Laurieton--a fine-looking pile…

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Railway and Water Supply

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 2

Mr. Theo. H. Hill has received the following letter from the Public Works Department:— Sir.—In reference to your letter…

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Fall From a Train

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 April 1924 · page 2

When the Lismore express was leaving John's River station on Wednesday night a man fell from the train. He was picked up by a railway…

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Engines Teas Up the Roads

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 April 1924 · page 2

The primary cause of the late running of the Sydney mail train is due to the delay occasioned on the section between Macksville and South…

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Road Grants. the Commonwealth Vote Gloucester Shire Receives £2300

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1924 · page 2

The members for Oxley: have received the following intimation from the Under Secretary, Dept. of Local Government:— "I have been directed by…

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What Railway Service Does

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 April 1924 · page 2

A Bellinger paper says 11 sawmills are to be erected on the Dorrigo-Coff's Harbor railway route, and that Sir Samuel Hordern is interested in one…

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