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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

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Motor Burglars Get Six Months Committed for Trial on Dungog Charge

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 2

Jack Sweeney, 31, and Roy Delaney, 33 appeared at the Taree Police Court on a charge of having broken and entered the shop of G…

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New Rocket Motor

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 2

Last week Berlin experts witnessed a demonstration of a rocket motor, driven by an alcohol and liquid oxygen mixture, which, it is…

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

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. states that evidence is accumulating daily that the adulteration of petrol with harmful spirits, and the retailing of second…

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Motors and Motorists. Difficult Steering

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 11

Difficult steering may be traced to various sources. The principal ones are worm or cam adjustment too tight, lack of lubrication, wheels out of…

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

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 11

Approximately 56.93 per cent. of vehicular traffic accidents in 1930 occurred at intersections, statistics of the California Automobile Association…

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Correspondence Dumaresque Island Roads (To the Editor)

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 4

Sir. — I would like to bring under the notice of the ratepayers of the Manning shire he unsatisfactory manner in which the by-roads on Dumaresque…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 8

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

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Goods Disappear Railway Complains

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court on Tuesday, railway detective William David Douglas, deplored the quantity of goods that disappears from railway…

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Railway Accident Near Hongkong

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 22 April 1931 · page 2

Hongkong: A serious accident occurred to-day on a railway line fifteen miles from here. Following rains a bridge collapsed and an engine and four…

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Dorrigo Train Service

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 8

It is rumored, states the Dorrigo "Gazette," that the present daily service between Dorrigo and Glenreagh is to be discontinued in the…

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News of the Day Firefly Creek Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 2

The Main Roads Board infonms Hon. W. Bennett, M.L.A., that [?] following communication has been forwarded to the Gloucester Shire…

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Motor Cases

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 2

William H. Adlington pleaded, guilty to having failed to return a motor driver's certificate. Mr. Hawkins appeared for…

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Motor Trader's Plate

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 2

Harold Amos Hardes pleaded guilty to having allowed his wife, Dulcie Hardes, to use on March 12 a motor trader's plate otherwise than…

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

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 6

The N.R.M.A. commends to motorists the objects of the Rangers' League-- to protect Australia's native flora and fauna. We were richly…

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

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 9

The suggestion is being made that London traffic policemen should be supplied with electric lights in their hats. The noise of London traffic produces…

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Motors and Motorists. Loose Rim

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 9

The swishing or crunching sound that seems to come from one of the wheels is due to a rim which has worked loose. This can be corrected…

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

The Northern Champion · Saturday 25 April 1931 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. commends to motorists the objects of the Rangers' League—to protect Australia's native flora and fauna. We were richly endowed by…

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Local and General. Temagog Bridge Opening Postponed

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 April 1931 · page 2

Owing to the heavy rains the official opening of the Temagog bridge, which was to have taken place on Saturday next, has been postponed…

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The Rainstorm Passes. the Macleay's Fortunate Escape From Flooding. Whole Countryside Saturated. Partial Dislocation of Railway Services

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 April 1931 · page 3

It is but rarely that such heavy and continuous rains, allied with high tides and mountainous seas, have not had as their outcome more or less…

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Crescent Head and Motorists

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 April 1931 · page 2

Intending trippers to Crescent Head, where the whiting are biting well, should note that the corduroy is still impassable to motor traffic, the…

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