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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1941

635 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 10 of 32

Lower South Coast Road

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 7

The N.R.M.A. has been advised officially that the lower south coast road between Coalcliff and Clifton will be closed to all traffic whilst the work of…

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Sleep Walking Is Safer. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 2

Competent authorities estimate that one person in every hundred has been subject to sleep walking at some time. Many of these are afflicted by the…

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Railway Excursions for Easter

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 2
Also in The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, Macleay Argus

The Department of Railways announces extensive arrangements for Excursion travel prior to and during Easter. Commencing about the…

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Motor Traffic Act

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4

For the past eight or nine months, a motorist, to wit, Andrew Miller, has been listed to appear before a Court of Justice, on charges of…

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Railway Excursions

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 2

The Department of Railways announces extensive arrangements for Excursion travel prior to and during Easter. Commencing about the…

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Pedestrian Road Accidents

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 7

The improvement in the general road accident situation last year, although not as great as was hoped, was not extended fully to the pedestrian section of…

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Railway Excursions for Easter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 4
Also in The Northern Champion

The Department of Railways announces extensive arrangements for excursion travel prior to and during Easter. Commencing about the end…

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

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 7

Concerned with the difficult problem of evacuating the civilian population of Newcastle to less vulnerable points, should this be necessary in the event of…

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Gloucester - Bullahdelah Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 2

At the meeting of the Stroud Shire Council on Friday a letter was received from the Main Roads Department suggesting amendments to…

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Engineer's Report. Waukivory Road

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 1

The letter from the Department of Main Roads of the 6/3/41 sets out the present position regarding the proposed construction on this road…

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Road-making in Wartime. State Plans are Affected

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 4

While the full effect of wartime conditions had not been felt by June 30 last, the New South Wales road-building plans had commenced to…

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Bus Smash on Mountain Man Killed ; Eight Injured. Bullahdelah Road Workers

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 2

Nine injured men, one of whom died were taken to Maitalnd Hospital on Friday night after a bus conveying about 28 road workers from…

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Motor Notes News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Service to Producer Gas Units

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 7

There should be no fear in the minds of motor owners who contemplate the installation of producer gas outfits that there will be trouble in…

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Proposed Road Tataatee to Firefly

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 2

The Gloucester Dairy Co., and Gloucester Chamber of Commerce wrote urging last week's, meeting of the Gloucester Shire Council to move in the…

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Bus Smash on Mountain Man Killed, Eight Injured. Bullahdelah Road Workers

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

Nine injured men. one of whom died, were taken to Maitland Hospital on Friday night after a bus conveying about 28 road workers from a job…

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Railway Excursions for Easter

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

The Department of Railways announces extensive arrangements for excursion, travel prior to and during Easter…

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Coronial Inquiry. Double Fatality In Motor Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 3

At Kempsey Court House on Saturday morning the District Coroner, Mr. N. L. Parker, J.P., opened an inquiry in regard to the death of…

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