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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

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The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, April 12, 1905. Roads From Outlying Centres

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 April 1905 · page 4

The people of Lismore have been singularly romies in…

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Deputations. Casino-kyogle Railway

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1905 · page 2

Precisely at 2 Mr. Lee entered the Directors' room, followed by a deputation re railway extension from Casino to Kyogle. The names of the deputation appeared in…

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Deputations. Casino-kyogle Railway

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1905 · page 2

Precisely at 2 Mr. Lee entered the Directors' room, followed by a deputation re railway extension from Casino to Kyogle. The names of the deputation appeared in…

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Great Motor Feats. The Struggle Between the Automobile and Locomotive

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 12

For the Briton a struggle for supremacy of any kind has always a strong fascination, and when the struggle is in the arena of sport it is almost…

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From All Sources. Solar Motor Pumps

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 9

A company has been formed in America, of Boston, New York, and London capitalists, for the manufacture and installation of solar motors…

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Ploughing by Motor

Northern Star · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 11

Whether the horse will ever be superseded by the self-propelled machine as a farmworker is, perhaps, a doubtful question. At the same time many farmers have…

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The R. R Agricultural Society's Dinner. Speech by Minister for Works. Favors Byron Bay Being Made a Deep Sea Harbour. Also Construction of Casinotenterfield Railway

Northern Star · Monday 17 April 1905 · page 3

Not being represented at the above banquet we clip the following report from the "S. M. Herald":— The annual banquet of the Richmond…

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Road-Making Machine

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 4

THE road-making machine loaned to the local Council by their Municipal confreres in Lismore arrived in Casino on Wednesday last. The first work performed…

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District Railways

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 4

UP to Wednesday night there was no public intimation in this district as to how the Casino-Grafton trains would run during the Easter holidays. The…

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The Tenterfield Railway

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 4

IN an address at Tenterfield the Hon. C. Lee said he was so impressed with the desirability of the Tenterfield-Casino railway that he would endeavour to again…

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The Tenterfield-casino Railway

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 5

OUR member (the Hon. 0. A Lee, Minister for Works) addressed a most enthusiastic meeting at Tenterfield last Saturday night. On the question of railway construction Mr. Lee said : The…

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Tweed Heads Railway. to Murwillumbah. Meeting at Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Monday 24 April 1905 · page 2

A well-attended meeting was held on Tuesday night to urge the Government to construct the railway line between Murwillumbah and the Tweed Heads. In the…

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Railway Disaster in America. Train Falls Through a Bridge

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1905 · page 7

A terrible railway disaster occurred in Iowa on February 8. An express train drawn by two locomotives was speeding at the rate of seventy miles an hour…

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Special Railway Rates for Shows

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1905 · page 5

A LARGE deputation, representing the New South Wales Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union, was introduced to the Railway Commissioners…

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The "Cabby" and the Motor

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1905 · page 5

THE London "cabby," unlike his colonial anti-type, has accepted the coming of the motor with resignation--nay, with something more, in the spirit of…

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Special Railway Rates for Shows

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1905 · page 3

A LARGE deputation, representing the New South Wales Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union, was introduced to the Railway Commissioners…

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The "Cabby" and the Motor

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1905 · page 3

THE London "cabby," unlike his colonial anti-Type, has accepted the coming of the motor with resignation--nay, with something more, in the spirit of…

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Motors in Agriculture

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 6

In the course of an interview with press correspondent, a member of a Brisbane firm just returned from England stated:—:"I have devoted a…

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March of the Motor Car

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 2

ALTHOUGH many accidents have ushered in the increasing popularity of the motorcar, all who have had a near acquaintance with this new kind of carriage…

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The State Premier. Mr. Carruthers at Lismore. the North Coast Railway

Northern Star · Monday 1 May 1905 · page 2

The State Premier, Hon. J. H. Carruthers, accompanied by Messrs. G. R. Henson (Railway Superintendent), G. H. Lovett, and Russell, arrived at Lismore by special…

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