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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

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Main Road Kempsey to S. W. Rocks

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 6

No provision has been made in this years Main Roads programme, the whole of which is being wholly devoted to maintenance, as neither the Main…

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Macleay Shire Council. (Continued from Page 3). Application to Close Road

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 6

Application by Mr. W. H. Duckett, Sent., Collombatti, for the closing of the road, and the sale of the land comprised therein through portion No. 55…

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Road at Bunyah. Deputation to Shire Council with Request for Assistance

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 1

At Monday's meeting of the Manning shire council a deputation from the Upper Wallamba Progress Association, comprising Messrs. M. V. Holstein,…

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Floods on Northern Rivers. 28 Inches at Tweed Heads Railway Washaways

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 1

Abnormal falls of rain totalling 28 inches in nine days have been experienced at Tweed Heads and floods of a serious nature have resulted…

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Road Money. How Shall It Be Spent? Main and Minor Roads. Article 2

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 6

The suggestion by the Shires' Association of New South Wales, contained in a circular sent to the various councils throughout the…

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Main Roads Board. Question of Control

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2

In a letter to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday the Monaro Shire Council asked for co-operation in making an objection…

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States to Get Petrol Duties for Roads

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

At the financial conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers at Canberra this week, a resolution was unanimously agreed to that the…

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Darawank Bridge. Limitation of Load and Speed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 2

The Main Roads Board, in a letter to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council, on Monday, stated that in regard to repairs to Darawank bridge…

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

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 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…

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

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 9

About 125,000 roadside stands throughout the United States do a business of £10,000,000 a year. More than half of them keep open all the…

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Motors and Motorists. New Car Treatment

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 9

There are no doubt a large number of cases where a little information about the treatment of a new car might save the inexperienced owner some…

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Roads Agreement

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 5

At the Financial Conference on Tuesday a resolution was agreed to unanimously providing that the Commonwealth shall pay to the States…

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Harbour Bridge Tramway Traffic. State Cabinet's Decision

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 3

The State Cabinet decided on Monday that tramcars are to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge when it is completed…

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Ald. Bridge's Expenses to L.g. Conference Disallowed by Council

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 6

At this week's meeting of the Taree municipal council the finance committee submitted its usual list of accounts for payment, and these included one from…

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Motor Notes

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

The N.R.M.A. is keeping its head to the front as strongly as ever, maintaining its net membership total despite the difficult times, and the…

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Motorist Run Down By Wire

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 4

Francis Coyle was driving a motor car across the railway line at Borenore yesterday when he was run down by the Sydney to Broken Hill express and…

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The Old Bar Road (To the Editor)

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 3

Sir.—We have heard that the new caretaker, when installed at the Old Bar, is going to make wonderful improvements, though they omit to say what I have…

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Taree Police Court Mondat, 16th FEBRUARY Before Mr. E. T. Oram, P.M. Travelling Without Paying Train Fare

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 4

The Railway Department proceeded against Dorothy Violet Lambourne, on two charges—one of travelling from Taree to Kundabung on 2nd November…

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Tram Guard Dies Cut Foot at Taree

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 2

"He is not sleeping. You have killed my husband." Mrs. Connie Sylvia Fussen told the City Coroner (Mr. E. A. May) on…

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Fettlers in Flood. Railway Men Have a Strenuous Time

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 6

The Northern Star, "in its report of the floods on the "top rivers," gives a vivid account of some of the experiences that befell the permanent way…

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