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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

686 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 35

The Casino-Tenterfield Railway

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 8

Mr. J. Perry, M.L.A., in introducing a deputation in reference to railway communication between Casino and Tenter-field to the Premier when in Byron Bay…

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Miscellaneous. the World's Railways

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 3

AT the end of 1903 there were in the world about 516,000 miles of railways, which seem to have increased at the rate of about 12,000 miles a year. The amount of…

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Closing Roads

Northern Star · Monday 10 June 1907 · page 3

Since they have started operations the Shire Councils have had a steady stream of applications for consent to the closing of [?] a meeting of those meeting in…

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Loads and Roads. Cream or Timber

Northern Star · Monday 10 June 1907 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Te[?]nia Shire Council the President [?] Greene) moved that [?] council circular[?] all [?] Shires in the North Coast distric[?] from…

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Railway Stolen. Twelve Miles of Line Vanish in Ireland

Northern Star · Monday 10 June 1907 · page 4

How a railway twe[?] miles long was sto[?] has been told to the [?] Railway Commission. The line which is the [?] and [?] Railway, was [?] in…

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Railway Commissioners at Lismore

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 5

THE Chief Railway Commissioners and Mr. Kirkcaldie, accompanied by Mr. J. Harper, Chief Traffic Manager, and other officers of the staff, arrived there on…

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Who Controls Bridge Traffic?

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 5

For a long time the Lismore Council gas been, endeavoring to find out who controls the traffic over bridges, and at last meeting Alderman Whit moved that…

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Railway, Ambulance Box

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 5

Of all the places needing ambulance appliances, and an organisation of the men to deal with accidents, there is none which needs it more than a railway…

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Bungawalbin Bridge

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 7

THE Secretary of the Bungawalbin Bridge movement has received the following letter from the Minister for Works:—"Mr. H. A. M'Callum. Dear Sir,—Your letter of the 7th…

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The Bungawalbin Bridge

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 4

THE letter which we publish this morning from the Hon. C. A. Lee, regarding the proposed bridge over the waters of Bungawalbin, is sufficiently encouraging to inspire those…

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The Motor Car. on the Riviera

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 12

"C," writes in the "Westminster Gazette":— The chief thing that struck us was the extraordinary change that has come…

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Railway Matters, Diverse Views

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 8

The following pars are culled from the Tenterfield "Intercolonial Courier" "At a conference of delegates from…

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The Broken Road

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 4

THIS new story, by A.E.W. Mason, author of "The Four Feathers," will arouse general interest. It deals primarily with India, and Mr. Mason…

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The "Spinning-Top" Railway

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 3

LONDON correspondent of Brisbane Courier writes:--Extraordinary interest is taken by engineers and the public generally in Mr. Louis…

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Pekin to Paris Motor Tour

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 2

THE motor-car reliability tour from Pekin to Paris starts to-day from the Chinese capital. The course will traverse Mongolia, the Gobi Desert…

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The Road to War

Northern Star · Monday 24 June 1907 · page 3

To wea[?]en one's military strength is to tempt one's neighbour, to encourage him to make war. To increase it is the way to make those [?]inclined for war reflect…

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Something for Young Men to Road

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 5

PROFESSOR JORDAN, of San Francisco, in an address in Sydney, referred to the wealth of opportunity in engineering, in commerce, in agriculture, in…

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A Reckless Motor Ride by Lad[?]

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 7

Two New York ladies riding in a large racing motor-car met with a terrible accident while endeavouring to outpace an express train which was running on the lin[?]…

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Motor Car: 360 Miles an Hour

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 7

Presiding Justice Deuel, recently [?] abroad a £20 [?]ne or thirty days' imprisonment, on a chaufieur, twenty years old. He pleaded guilty to driving a motor car…

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Motor Ambulances

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 5

The first motor ambulance in London was put upon the streets on May 13. The new ambulance in electrically propelled, and resembles an army ambulance waggon…

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