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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

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The Toll of the MOTOR-CAR

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 1

Some 19,000 persons were killed and 450,000 others injured in the United Slates by automobiles in 1924, says the New York Outlook. For the…

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Eungai Railway

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5
Also in Macleay Argus

A fairly well attended Parents' and Citizens' meeting was held on Saturday week in the school and some useful business transacted…

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Weekly Motor Notes. Reviving the Ford Magnets

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 7

Every Ford owner learns sooner or later that the degree of magnetism in the permanent magnets of the magneto has a very big influence on the…

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Railway Collision Five Persons Injured. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5

A Kyogle message says five persons were injured in a train collision at Kyogle last night when a motor passenger train from Casino to Kyogle…

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Telegrams. Explosion in Motor Works. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5

An Adelaide message states there was an explosion at the motor body works yesterday. John Jordan, 21, was killed and another workman…

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Motor Ships. Why Tee Demand for Coal Is Falling

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 7

Oue of the greatest, revolutions in transport we have seen has come upon us almost unawares. This is the change from strain power to oil in the…

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Taree Motor Cycle Club. Annual Meeting

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 4

The first annual meeting of the Taree Cycle and Motor Cycle Club was held in Kemp's Cafe on Tuesday night last, with the president…

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Motor Cycle Club. Annual Meeting

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 2

Mr. J. E. Sladden (president) presided at the first annual meeting of Taree Motor Cycle Club, held at Kemp's Cafe on Tuesday night…

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Motor Spirit Users. Should Resist Higher Duty

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 1

The application by certain large importers to get an increased duty on cased motor spirit and kerosene will, it successful, place users…

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Railway Matters. Taree Still Loco. Centre. Increased Accommodation Being Provided

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 3

During the past week there have beep many rumors current in Taree in connection with s the loco, branch of the railway department. Some of…

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Toorooka Bridge. Those Two Sites

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 3

Speaking generally, one would have thought that after receiving the promise of money from the Government, amounting to £2000, of which £1000…

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COPELAND (From our Correspondent.) the Roads

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 1

I have been endeavoring to work myself up to the right pitch so that I could express myself suitabily in regard to such urgent and important…

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News in Brief Wingham Railway Station

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 2

We are indebted to the officials at Wingham Railway Station for the following particulars of business transacted at the station for the…

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Better Distribution of Railway Staff

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 2

The method of running the passenger trains on North Coast line was to be altered on 9th August, with the result that 21 members of the staff for…

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Just What Passes for a Road

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 12 August 1925 · page 2

In the south [?] of the Manning Shire [?] in New South Wales. It extends on for many miles to the south…

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Wonderful New Aeroplane

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 2

The Paris correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette," reported recently that M. Max Boucher, the airman and aeroplane manufacturer,…

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Bicycle Road Racing

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 4

On Saturday, September 19th, the Dunlop Amateur Cycle Race from Goulburn to Sydney, a distance of about 124 miles, will be contested, and…

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The Premier and the Roads Board

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 3

Mr. Lang's threat that he will cut the councils out of the Road Board's operations altogether is one which, if he attempts to carry it into effect,…

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Killed by Train. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 5

A Newcastle message says J. Costello, a retired schoolmaster, fell under a train at Honeysuckle and both his legs were cut off. He died later…

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