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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

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Main Roads Maintenance Programme for 1931

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 May 1931 · page 6

The Engineer reported: As an instruction has been received from the Main Roads Board notifying Council that the assistance for the current year…

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Reduction in Main Road Contribution

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 May 1931 · page 6

The Main Roads Board wrote that as a result of financial stringency it would not be able to continue £2 to £1 contributions on trunk roads and…

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Crowdy Head Road

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

To the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday, the Chief Secretary's Department forwarded report from Inspector of Fisheries…

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Money for ROADS.—Withheld from N.S.W.

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

The president of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. J. C. Watson), declares that road users will view with alarm the announcement that a large number of…

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Main Roads Board Contributions. Reduction to £ for £ Basis

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 7

The Main Roads Board, in a letter to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday, notified that its contributions to the main roads…

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Developmental Road. No Money for Two or Three Years

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

The Main Roads Board wrote to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday concerning Developmental Road No. 1044 and proposed deviation…

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DEVELOPMENTAL ROAD—No Money for Two or Three Years

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

The Main Roads Board wrote to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday concerning Developmental Road No. 1044 and…

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

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 8

In many cases in which number plates have been surrendered by motorists a refund of the pro rata proportion of the annual tax has not…

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Motorists Warned

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 3

Mr. Flynn, S.M., at the Traffic Court, Sydney, issued a warning to motorists in regard to inefficient silencers on their cars. 'He had…

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Motors and Motorists. Rattles and Squeaks

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 9

Rattles and squeaks in a car are particularly noticeable in the case of a vehicle with quiet engine and transmission system. Generally those noises…

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

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 9

Motor vehicle registration on farms in the United States now totals 5,700,000. Machine guns and sawed-off…

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Main Roads Board Contributions

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 4

The Main Roads Board, in a letter to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday, notified that its contributions to the main roads…

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Motor Notes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 8

When the N.R.M.A. represented to Randwick Municipal Council that the rough surface on a section of Long Bay Road, between Torrington Road…

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Oxley's Highway. a New Motor Tour

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 6

It was in 1818 that John Oxley, surveyor and explorer, moved north-eastward by menas of a bullock waggon over the Liverpool Plains, and…

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How Many Motor Cars in the Would. Some Staggering Figures and Facts

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 6

"One of the most striking developments of modern civilisation" is this "vast cavalcade of progress"- the present world total of 35,000,000…

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Motor Notes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 3

According to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, the "hit-and-run" driver is "one of the worst type of criminals." He says…

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

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 6

In many rases in which number plates have been suptendered by motorists a refund of the pro rata proportion of the annual tax has not been made…

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Gloucester Shire Council Engineer's Report. Waukivory Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 2

The Engineer (Mr. W. J. Fordyce) reported as follows at last Monday's meeting of Council:— Waukivory Road.—With reference…

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Municipal Aerodrome

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 May 1931 · page 3

Through the agitation of Lismore Aero Club, and other flighty folk, Lismore Municipal Council dived fullydressed in the matter of providing an…

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Grafton Bridge

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 May 1931 · page 5

Owing to rationing of work, progress in connection with the Grafton bridge is rather slow. In the case of both the railway and that for vehicular traffic…

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