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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1930

3,190 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 160

Railway Through Grafton

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 2

Tenders are being called by the resident engineer, Mr. S. D. Webb, for the supply of approximately 20,000 lineal feet of 14in. diameter piles. These, it…

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Motor Notes Changing Oil

Northern Star · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

To begin with, there are far too many car owners who regard motor oil as a necessary evil. Lubrication to them is an item of secondary…

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Increased Traffic North Coast Railway Figures for 1929 GRAFTON

Northern Star · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 4

There has been a marked increase of traffic on the North Coast line during 1929, as compared with 1928. The train ferry Swallow conveyed…

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The Motor World News and Notes Feom the N.R.M.A.

Northern Star · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

New York officials are becoming alarmed by the problem of what to do with motor cars that have outlived their usefulness. Recently the city…

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Casino-bonalbo Railway

Northern Star · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 8

On Wednesday next the Station Sites Board of the Railway and Tramway Construction Board will make an inspection of the Casino-Bonalbo line…

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Ballina-lismore Road

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

Tintenbar Shire Council have commenced operations on section 2 of the Ballina-Lismore road construction, this section being 73 chains, from Ocean…

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Important Road Works

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 11

Mr. W. G. Westaway is pushing on rapidly with the metalling (with river gravel) of the long deviation he has put in on the Kyogle to Woodenbong…

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Goods Train Derailed Goulburn

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 9

Shortly before 6 p.m. on Thursday 13 wheat trucks attached to No. 92 goods train from Goulburn to Sydney became derailed about, a mile and a…

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Tomki Shire Council Meeting Expenditure on Roads

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 8

Cr. W. Sullivan occupied the: chair at a meeting of Tomki Shire Council held at Casino on Friday. Others present were Crs. H. Clarke, D. W…

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Train Collision 11 Killed; 13 Injured CALCUTTA

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 7

Eleven Indians were killed and thirteen injured in a midnight collision between the Peshawar to Lucknow express and a stationary…

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Week-end Toll Melbourne Road Accidents MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 7

Four deaths occurred in weekend accidents in Melbourne. Attempting to recover a ball with which he was playing at Hampton…

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Crash Into Post Brisbane Motor Smash Former Murwillumbah Residents Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

Owing to their car crashing into a telegraph post on Abbotsford-road at Mayne Junction while travelling from their home at Henry-street, Clayfield…

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Railway Smash. Eleven Indians Killed Midnight Collision

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 3

CALCUTTA Friday.--Eleven Indians were killed and 13 were injured in a midnight collision between the Peshawar to Lucknow…

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Non-union Coal Black Newcastle Railwaymen's Decision Will Make No Difference, Says Mr. Bavin Further March on Rothbury Planned

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.--Miners who advanced on Rothbury on Friday are threatening to do so again. They state that they will be led by the Miners' Safety Corps, reinforced by 4,000 men from other fields…

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Refusal to Handle Railway Men "Volunteer" Coal Latest Developments SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 7

By 223 votes to 122, members of Waratah and Newcastle branches of the A.R.U. decided not to handle coal hewn by…

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Motor Bodies Huge Contract Let ADELAIDE

Northern Star · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 6

Mr. H. V. Phipps, vice-president of the Chrysler Exporters' Corporation, states that contracts for the manufacture of 11,600 motor bodies during…

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New Land Mawson's Discovery. Examination by Aeroplane 'Magnificent Panorama'

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

In his first aeroplane flight over the Antarctic, Sir Douglas Mawson discovered a new land, the coastline of which was examined…

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The Border Road. Official Opening January 25th

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

According to the Commissioner of Main Roads in Queensland (Mr. J. R. Kemp) when the Brisbane-Mt Lindesay road is officially opened on…

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Railwaymen's Ballot

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday:--Mr. Cleary (Chief Railway Commissioner), referring to the railwaymen's ballot regarding the haulage of Rothbury coal, said…

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Cyclonic Storm Motor Yacht Wrecked

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

SUVA, Monday.--During a cyclonic storm which swept Makogai Leper Island on Saturday, the Fijian Government's motor yacht Lady Escott was…

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