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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1938

1,104 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 11 of 56

Another Trunk Road

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 6

Kempsey Municipal Council has been advised by the Main Roads Board that from July 1 next the road from Kempsey to Armidale will…

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Railway Fatality. The Inquest

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 2

The Corouer (Mr. Hubert Flett held at the Taree Court House on Wednesday an inquest touching the death pit Henry Ormond Green, who…

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Receiving Charge Echo of Railway Robberies

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 6

The part heard case against Leslie George Baker on two charges of stealing and of receiving goods, the property of the Railway…

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Guyra-dorrigo Railway

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 6

At Coffs Harbour, on Friday night last, the largest public meeting in the history of the town was held in the School of…

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Motor Notes News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. His Good Record

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 3

A fine of sixpence was imposed at Belfast on a pedestrian for jaywalking, reports a London motoring journal. He was knocked down by…

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Railway Warrants for Returned Soldiers

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 4

Railway warrants for returned soldiers who intend visiting Sydney on the special trains which will leave Grafton for Sydney on April 19th…

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R.a.c.a. Notes. Motor Car Lighting Systems

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 8

The Royal Automobile Club of Australia suggests that motorists might, with advantage, regard the approach of winter time as a signal for…

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Motor Notes. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Swedish Car Production

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 8

The biggest Swedish motor car company recently obtained record figures for production in 1937, having delivered 6334 cars, against 4184…

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The Upper Lansdowne Roads

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 8

A Lansdowne contributor writer.:—It is doubtful whether the roads in this part of "A" Riding of the Manning Shire have ever been in a worse…

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Colored Roads for Safety

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 7

A suggestion was recently made to the N.R.M.A. that top dressing of different colors be used on opposite sides of main bitumenous highways as a…

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Upper Lansdowne Roads a Real Grievance

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 7

It is doubtful whether the roads in this part of "A" Riding of the Manning Shire have ever been in a worse condition than they are at the present…

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Motor-car Manners. The Menace of The Other Fellow

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 6

In the twenty-five years that I have been driving motor-cars, I have never met anyone who had an accident through his own fault—it was…

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

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 7

The biggest Swedish motorcar company recently obtained record figures for production in 1937, having delivered 6,334 cars against 4,184 in 1936…

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Missing Fishermen. Aeroplane Search

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 2

The intense anxiety of the people of Crowdy and neighborhood, at the loss of the two fishermen who left in a launch last Thursday, and have not…

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Motor-car Manners. The Menace of the Other Fellow

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 4

In the twenty-five years that I have been driving motor-cars, I have never met anyone who had an accident through his own fault—it was…

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Aerodrome Illuminated

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 4

Mr. Harold Welch, manager of Kempsey Electric Light and Power Company, Ltd., under instruction from the Defence authorities in…

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Taree Quarter Sessions Tuesday, 8th MARCH Before Hr. Honor Judge Craney. Stole Motor Car

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 3

Ronald Lea and Walter Walkinson pleaded guilty to a charge that, at Taree car, the property of William…

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Stealing a Motor Car

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 2

Ronald Lea and Walter Wilkinson pleaded guilty to having stolen motor car, the property of William Baulman…

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Motor Collision Sequel

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 7

Thomas James Rowe, charged with having driven a motor vehicle whilst under the influence of liquor, pleaded not guilty, and was represented by…

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Road to Aldavilla Aerodrome

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 March 1938 · page 4

Sir Earle Page, G.C.M.G., has forwarded the following letter from the Minister for the Interior to Hon. R. S. Vincent: With further reference to…

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