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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

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Request for Repairs Cudgera Headland Road

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 4

The following letter has been received by Tweed Shire Council from Mr. D. J. M'Cormack, Burringbar:-- "According to the report of a Shire…

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Chemicals Exploded Loss of Motorship Tricolor Inquiry's Finding

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 2

SINGAPORE, Wednesday.--A consular inquiry, with the assessors, into the loss of the motorship, Tricolor, which blew up off Colombo, issued private…

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Inter-state Search Missing Injured Motorist Wife Was Killed

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday:--The police of N.S.W. and Queensland, as well as in Victoria, are searching for John [?]ee (.42), who disappeared after his…

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Motoring Section the Motor Would News and Notes from the N.R.M.A.

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 7

It is stilted that since the increase of the speed limit in Pennsylvania to 40 m.p.h. no increase in accidents has resulted…

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Police Court Tweed Gases Motor Traffic Breaches

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 4

At Tweed Heads Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M., S. Chapman and A. E Harrison pleaded guilty to breaches of the motor…

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Telegraphic News. Goode and Lang What Is the Position Opinion of Railway Men

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. Fletcher, General Secretary of the Railway Service Association, declared that the Premier's latest move to have the…

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Premier and Railways Lang Has Victory

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners have agreed to accede to the Government's demands for the loan of the services of Messrs. Goode and Corry in…

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The Railways Mr. Lang's Scheme

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Lang) has informed the Railway Commissioners that his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council,…

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the Motor world News and Notes Prom the N.R.M.A.

Northern Star · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 10

In a letter to the N.R.M.A. safety department, Mr. H. B. Sevier, president of the Chamber of Manufactures, says that the timely exercise of the…

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Motor Notes Miles Per Gallon and Petrol Bills

Northern Star · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 10

Petrol, economy is a subject which is near to the heart of every car owner, for it does not take much imagination to perceive how great a monetary…

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Insect Saves a Train

Northern Star · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 4

As a New York-Chicago train was speeding along the railway it encountered a great storm of wind and rain. The stoker persuaded the driver…

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Fatal Accident Fern Vale Road. Motor Car Down Bank MRS. C. Watt Killed

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 2

A fatal motor car accident occurred on the Fern Vale road last night, resulting in the death of a well known Fern Vale woman,…

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On the Road Series of Mishaps

Northern Star · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 6

Twenty-one boys from Tamworth High School accompanied by four adults arrived in Lismore yesterday afternoon by motor lorry. The party…

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Tweed Heads Bowling Green Road Retaining Wall Completed

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 2

The concrete retaining wall along the Bowling Green Road at Tweed Heads is nearing completion; in fact, it is just receiving the finishing touches,…

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Fewer Motor Accidents Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 6

Statistics compiled by the N.R.M.A. disclose that during 1930 the number of persons killed by motor cars in New South Wales was 358 compared withn…

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Special Fruit Train

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 2

The special fruit train left Murwillumbah on Friday last with 1579 cases of bananas for direct transit to Sydney. An additional 501 cases were…

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Crossed Bass Strait In Home-made Aeroplane

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--In a plane of his own construction, Mr. C. A. Butler, of Cootamundra, flew across Bass Strait from Launceston to…

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Road Money. How Shall It Be Spent?

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 4

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

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Car Smash Tarbourine Road Accident Two Men Killed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday:--Two men were killed and a youth was severely injured on the main 'Brisbane-Tambourine Road, near Waterford, on Sunday…

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Four Persons Killed Tragic Motor Accident Crash Into Creek

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Four people were killed and a child seriously injured when a motor car, driven by Frederick Mustoe,…

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