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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1920

2,037 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 102

Alleged Burning a Motor Car

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 1

Evidence tendered at a court case in Bundaberg on Monday last is arousing keen excitement in that city. A charge of destroying a motor…

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Motor Car Overturns

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 January 1920 · page 4

A motor car, driven by Mr. G. Yates (Chillingham) turned over an embankment near Burringbar on Monday. The occupants were Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hoare and two…

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The Motor Train Service. Commissioners' Statement

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The general secetary of the P.P.U., in response to namerous inquiries from members of the various branches for information in connection with…

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Grafton Rail Motor. Checking Up the Cost. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners have informed the Primary Producers' Union that the car at present running on the railway, Lismore to Grafton, is running…

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Railway Commissioner

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

MELBOUENE, Wednesday.—A dozen applicants for the position of Chief Railway Commissioner for Victoria have been turned down. A search will be made in England,…

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Serious Motor Smash

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 4

A party of Tenterfield residents motoring from Tenterfield to Stanthorple on Monday evening, met with a serious accident 15 miles from Tenterfield. The driver of the…

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The Motor Train Service

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The general secretary of the P.P.U., in response to numerous inquiries from members of the various branches for information in connection with the new…

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Tenterfield Road

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 7

At the last meeting of the Kyogle Shire Council the following letter from the Local Government Department was read:—…

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Woman Attacked on Lonely Road

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

While proceeding home after visiting neighbors on Wednesday night a lady resident of Wyangerie was assaulted on the road. She was stopped by a stranger…

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Electric Light Installation. at Bridge Street Hall

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

Owing to the wet weather there was only a very moderate attendance at the social held in the Bridge Street Hall on Monday evening to mark the…

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Who'd Be a Shire Councillor? Wages of Employees Again Bumped Up. The Road Problem Acute

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

The secretary, Shires' Association, intimated at the Byron Shire meeting on Tuesday that as a result of the agreement recently arrived at in regard to…

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The Border Railway

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

Mr. H. T. Sheppard on Wednesday received from. Mr.Bill J. Stark, secretary to Beaudesert-Kyogle Railway League, Beenleigh, a telegram…

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That Motor Car Case

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

At the Bundaberg Police Court on Monday, Charles Jenkins, Henry C. Bolton and Frederick W. Nissen, appeared upon a charge of wilfully destroying a…

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British Railway Settlement. Large Increases in Men's Wages. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 3

Sir Eric Geddes, Minister of Transport, in a speech at Cambridge upon the railway settlement, declared that if the men had not accepted the recent…

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Heavy Rain at Byron Bay. a Motor Boat Wrecked

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

BYRON BAY, Thursday.—Heavy rain continues. There has been no abatement since Monday. The total fall up to 9 o'clock this morning was 560 points. Heavy…

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Rail Motor Cars

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

Mr. G. R. W. McDonald, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Railway Commissioners in reply to his letter of the 12th inst., relative to the…

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Railway Fares and Freights

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A meeting of Orange settlers carried a motion protesting against the action of the Railway Commissioners in raising the fares and freights. It…

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Bullets Smash Train Windows

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.-- As a train was passing through Erskineville to Sydney early this morning two bullets crashed through the windows. It is believed…

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Tomki Shire and the Lismore Road

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 2

Speaking at the Casino Chamber of Commerce meeting on Thursday night, Mr. G. J. Mortimer added some remarks to the controversy proceeding…

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Train Fired On. Two Bullets Through a Window. SYDNEY

Tweed Daily · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 5

As a train was passing through Erskineville on its way to Sydney this morning two bullets crashed through two of the windows, one of the bullets…

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