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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

814 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 10 of 41

Motors and Motorists. Through Floods with Urgent Supplies

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 9

Mr. W. B. Murphy, F.R.M.S., F.R.S.A., recently left Sydney in a New Ford truck carrying equipment urgently required by St John's College, near…

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Third Road to Riches an Old Man and His Money

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 7

The lamp stood beside the old man's bed, on the round table with the chenille cloth. It was an oil lamp, for the old man was primitive. He was an…

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Motor Notes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 8

In a letter to the N.R.M.A. Safety Department Mr. H. B. Sevier, President of the Chamber of Manufactures, says that the timely exercise of the…

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Drunken Motorist's Heavy Penalty

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 17 March 1931 · page 2

Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., at Bellingen Court last Thursday, Francis John Jenkins, on a charge of driving a motor vehicle on a public road while…

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Motor Notes. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. has decided to ask the Federal Government to expedite the issue of the report of the Departmental accountants who are…

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The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 9

Heavier penalties are fixed for stealing cars, joy riding and for drunken drivers in Victoria, the punishment for the second offence being imprisonment…

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Motor Notes. From the N.R.M.A.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 8

The menace of projecting loads on the running boards of motor cars has been fully illustrated during recent weeks, when a number of collisions…

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Taree Park Fountain Tampered with by Tramps

The Northern Champion · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 6

At Wednesday night's meeting of the Taree Municipal Council Aid. Muldoon asked about the park fountain which had been broken…

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Motor Lorry Goes Over. Mishap on Comboyne Cutting

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

On Sunday last, about mid-day, Mr. J. Ede was driving a motor lorry down from the Comboyne towards Wingham, when be had a sensational experience…

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Bridge Worker Killed

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 6

Alfred Trainer, 30, was fatally injured at Grafton on Thursday afternoon of last week while rigging tackle for hoisting steel girders to…

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Train Accident. "Royal Scot" Crashes

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 6

On Sunday last, the "Royal Scot," one of the fastest trains in the world, was reduced to a heap of twisted metal and matchwood, from which…

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Motor Notes. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. has learned that the declaration of a number of important traffic thoroughfares n Sydney as "through" streets is being officially…

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Shaken From Motor-car

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 6

On Saturday last, while journeying to Kempsey from Warwick racecourse, Mr. Arthur Shine was jolted from the side of a sedan motor-car,…

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Motor Notes. From the N.R.M.A.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1931 · page 8

The N.R.M.A. says that of the 27,538 new motor cars registered in the four principal States of the Commonwealth during 1930, 16.1 per cent…

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On the REPUDlATION[?] Trail. Lang on the High Road. Scullin on the Low

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 31 March 1931 · page 4

Some time ago Mr. Lang and Mr. Scullin foregathered, as the leaders of the Labor movement. They both announced that facing the facts was not…

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A Motor Trip

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1931 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. White and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Abbott contemplate leaving this week on a motor trip as far as Adelaide. They will have…

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Queensland Train Robbery

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 6

A robbery of mail bags containing £1000 was perpetrated on a train travelling between Townsville and Cloncurry recently. The train…

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Adulteration. Undefended Motorists Are Defrauded. (Reprinted from "The Open Road" of March 19.)

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 7

There is considerable room, for thought --and suspicion-- in the relative figures of the imports of petrol and kerosene into New South Wales…

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The Repudiation Trail. Lang on the High Road-- Scullin on the Low. Who Will Get There First?

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 3

"Some time ago Mr. Lang and Mr. Scullin foregathered as the leaders of the Labor movement. They both announced that facing the facts was…

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Motor Notes. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 7

The N.R.M.A. announces that the Main Roads Board is arranging for a continuous 24-hour ferry service on the Hawkesbury River, between…

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