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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

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Motor Cycle Sports

The Northern Champion · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 4

The following handicaps have been declared for the races of the M.R. Cycle and Motor Cycle Club, to be held on the Show Ground to-day:—…

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Y.A.L. Boys in England and Scotland. Arrangements for Motor Tour

The Northern Champion · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 8

The Young Australia League has completed arrangements for un extended motor tour of England and Scotland by 140 boys. It was intend…

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Sporting. Motor Cycling

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 4

At a meeting of Taree Motor, Cycle Club on Monday night, a social run to the Old Bar on Sunday was arranged, crossing the 10 a.m punt, It…

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Eungai Railway

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 3

Once again our roads are in a pitiful state. "Billibiang" has something on us. We can't put our feelings in poetry but we can do fair justice in good…

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Lady Motor Cyclist Crashes at Show Ground

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 6 May 1925 · page 2

Miss Fraser, of Adelaide, who has been in the district representing a city business firm, had a bad smash at the Taree Show Ground on…

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Motor Cycle Accident. Lady Rider Severely Injured

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 6 May 1925 · page 2

A serious accident happened on Taree showground on Friday afternoon, when Miss Lila Fraser, a lady motor cyclist who recently came over…

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Bullahdclah Nabiac Motor Service. Postmaster-General's Department, Sydney, 27th April, 1925

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 6 May 1925 · page 4

Sir, With reference to previous correspondence relative to representations made to you by the Coolongolook Progress Association (Mr…

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Killed by Motor Car

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 7

The Rev. Joseph. H. Wills, aged over 80 years, who was one of Tasmania's best-known clergymen, was killed while visiting Tasman's…

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Eungai Railway

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 2

The rainy season has set in with a vengeance. One would think we were living in the Tropics. More and more we wish we were…

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Railway Matters

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 4

As from May 1st, the office of Assistant District Superintendent of Railways, which was situated at Taree, has been removed to South Grafton…

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The Motor Car. Paint and Corrosion

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 6

Most of us look upon paint and varnish from the point of view of maintaining an elegance of appearance as far as the car is concerned, but such…

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Aeroplane Crashes. Two Persons Killed

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 5

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred near the Orange Showground last week. An aeroplane piloted by Thomas Lynn, and carrying a passenger named…

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Main Roads. Five Years' Programme

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 8

It is understood during the next five years there will be 177 miles new main roads constructed in the County of Cumberland and 318 miles…

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Correspondence, Taree Footpaths and Roads (To the Editor)

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 4

Sir.—Through the medium of your valuable journal I desire briefly to point out to the local [?] anuthorities that several parts of one of the…

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Taree Footpaths and Roads. (To the Editor, "M.R. Times.")

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 8

Sir,--Through the medium of your valuable journal I desire, briefly to point out to local civic authorities that several parts of one of the main…

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Terrible Toll of the Motor

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 4

OFFICIAL statistics show, says the New York correspondent of "The Times," that motor vehicles caused 19,000 deaths, and injured 450,000 people, in the United States…

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Coastal Shipping Trade. Railway Competition

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 5

Owing to serious competition from New South Wales Government railways, the heavy loss sustained early in the company's career through the wreck of…

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Moving Railway Workshops. Lismore's Strong Protest

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 13 May 1925 · page 3

An appeal for the [?] of the youth of the country was made at a public meeting at [?] on Friday at which a protest was entered…

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Gigantic Motor Business

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 May 1925 · page 2

A Detroit correspondent writes:—Brotherly Jove builded a gigantic organization for John F. and Horace E. Dodge, founders of Dodge Brothers,…

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Lady Motor-cyclists on Tour Mud-larking in the North

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 15 May 1925 · page 3

After a tour of 942 miles on the North Coast and Tablelands on a 1924 Model 7 h.p. A.iJ.S. Motor. Cycle' and sidecar, Mrs Thomasson and Miss…

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