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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

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Motors and Railways. Position in United States

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 4

In Australia one is continually hearing complaints issued on behalf of railway interests anent the alleged inroads made on their revenue by motor…

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Motor Act Breach

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 2

For having driven an unregistered, motor lorry on Uki Road on December 30, Gerald Keith Boyle was fined £2, with 8- costs, in default 14 days…

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Road Money How Shall It Be Spent? Main and Minor Roads

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 6

The Councils throughout the State have been circularised recently by the Shires Association, Sydney, in an apparent effort to gather…

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Special Fruit Train

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 2

The special fruit train left Murwillumbah on Tuesday with 1102 cases of bananas for direct transit to Sydney. An additional 365 cases were loaded…

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Motor Car Sales

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 6

The falling off in sales of news cars throughout Now South Vales is a reflex in a lesser degree, of what is happening in. other pails of the…

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Pistol at Head Railway Chiefs Release of Goode and Corry Lang's Transport Bill

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday:--The Premier (Mr. Lang) informed the Railway Commissioners to-day that His Excellency the Governor, with…

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British Motor Industry London

Northern Star · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 10

A bulletin of the manufacturers section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders points out that the collapse in Australia, which…

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Terragon Bridge

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 2

The completion of the Terragon bridge is within measurable distance, reports Mr. H. J. Aarons, Tweed Shire engineer. It is possible it will be…

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Train Services. Curtailment Resented

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 4

Public bodies from Toowoomba to the border are up in arms against the proposal of the Queensland authorities to reduce the train service to…

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The Road to Prosperity Some Plain Facts

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 3

Mr. R. A. Pearson, of Tamworth, writes to the "Pictorial":— That the man on the land does not pay much taxes in money (as stated by your correspondent)…

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Narrow Escape Train Passenger Bullet Strikes Pipe Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 4

While Harold John Coy was travelling in the train between Parramatta and Auburn last night smoking his pipe it was struck by a bullet and…

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Too Costly Mullumbimby Bridge Tweed President's View a Simpler Design?

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 5

"It would have been better to have built three or four bridges of simpler construction," contended Cr. Marks (President of Tweed…

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May Be Rationed Railway Heads Lang Swings Big Stick Transport Monopoly

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday:--The Railway Commissioners this afternoon agreed to accede to the Government's demand for the loan of the…

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Appalling Total Toll of the Motor in America

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 3

CHICAGO, Wednesday:--The United States' automobile death roll in 32 States for 1930 was equivalent to the wiping out of a…

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Act of Sovietism. Railwaymen Perturbed. Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 4

Mr. Fletcher, general secretary of the Railway Service Association, declared that the Premier's latest move to have the services…

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Mr. Lang Wins Railway Commissioners Bow to Dictates Loan of Officials Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 7

The Railway Commissioners this afternoon agreed to accede to the Government's demands for the loan of the services of Messrs…

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Ill-fated Motorship Findings of Inquiry SINGAPORE

Northern Star · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 7

A consular inquiry with the assessors into the loss of the motorship Tricolor which blew up off Colombo Issued private findings that the skip…

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32,500 FATALITIES America's Motor Toll CHICAGO

Northern Star · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 7

The United States automobile death roll in 32 States for 1930 was equivalent to the wiping out of a small city, with a total of…

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Steel Roads Illinois Experiment

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 7

An experiment which, if successful, may revolutionise road building is being carried out in Springfield, Illinois (U.S.A., where a steel road has been…

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Kyogle Shire. Work on Roads

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 1

At the meeting of the Kyogle Shiro the engineer reported:-- On the Bonalbo road, the contractor. Mr. E. Smith, has patched the sections…

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