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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1934

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Another Cheap Train at Single Fare Foe the Double Journey

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

Anxious to make cheap excursion travel facilities available to far distant country residents who may have found themselves unable to travel…

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Desperate Bid Made For Liberty Jump From Train Prisoner Escapes Into Bush

Tweed Daily · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

GRAFTON, Wednesday Making ing a desperate bid for liberty, a prisoner named Edward William Murray, who was being brought…

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Leap From Train Disappeared in Bush Constable From Lismore Injured GRAFTON

Northern Star · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

Making a desperate bid for liberty, a prisoner named Edward William Murray, who was being brought from Lismore to Grafton this afternoon, jumped from the Murwillumbah-Sydney mail train…

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Rural Development Need for Local Activity. Upper Main Aem-uki Road

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

Recently Mr. A. E. Budd, M.L.A. advocated in the Legislative Assembly that the Main Roads Board should extend its operations more…

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Hospital Motor Cycle

Tweed Daily · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

The next acquisition to Tweed District Hospital's assets will be a motor cycle. Consideration was given to the purchase of a machine by the Board…

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Motor Registrations Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 5

At the end of December there were 224,211 motor vehicles registered in New South Wales, an increase of 12,074 compared with the…

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Burringbar Road

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

As the Main Roads Department Engineer (Mr. Ingram) has advised that he will inspect a new route for the main road between Mr. J. Donnan's…

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Tar Surfacing Roads a Dorrigo Experiment

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 6

Torrential ram has fallen on several occasions since the Dorrigo Mountain road was tar-surfaced several weeks ago, but it has done no…

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Harbour Bridge Suicide Imperial Soldier's Belief

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday. --The body of he man who jumped from the Harbour bridge last night has been definitely identified as Jeremiah Michael…

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Bridge Victim No Trace of Body SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 7

A special1 constable doing [?]uty on the Sydney harbour bridge to-night saw a man whose acquaintance he had made an hour before climb the rail…

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Casino Joins Protest £275,000 From Roads Funds Casino

Northern Star · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 10

Casino Council on Tuesday night decided to co-operate with Granville Council in protesting against the proposal of the Government to charge the…

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Another Cheap Train at Single Fare for the Double Journey

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

Anxious to make cheap excursion travel facilities available to far distant country residents who may have found themselves unable to travel…

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Boy Run Over by Train Fell From Platform Leg Severed; Severe Head Injuries

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 3

ROCKHAMPTON, Thursday:- Hearing the screams of a child coming from underneath the carriage, a passenger on the…

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Liberty Was Short-Lived Escapee Again in Custody Gashed Face in Leap From Train

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 3

GRAFTON, Thursday. The prisoner, Edward William Murray, who escped in sensational circumstances yesterday…

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"Grossly Unfair," Says Minister Double Taxation of Interstate Motorists and Traders

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday:- Mr. Perkins (Minister for the Interior) said to-day it was grossly unfair that motorists or traders…

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Three Killed, Eight Hurt in Terrible Motor Smash Coach Somersaults Back Axle Broken Gundagai

Northern Star · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 7

A terrible motor tragedy occurred near here to-day, three women being killed and five men and three…

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Tramway Improvements

Northern Star · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 11

Mr. G. R. Steer (general manager of the Brisbane Tramways) has furnished a comprehensive and instructive report to the City Council, detailing the…

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On District Roads

Northern Star · Saturday 13 January 1934 · page 10

After the recent heavy storms motorists are advised that the Pacific Highway to Murwillumbah is preferable to the Nimbin-Uki road, states the…

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Road Anomaly

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 January 1934 · page 4

It will come as a surprise to many to realise That even sections of State Highways and Main Roads in the State are not dedicated as public…

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Bridge Victim Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 13 January 1934 · page 13

The body of the man who Junged from the Sydney Harbour Bridge last night was recovered to-day and identified as that of Jeremiah Michasl…

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