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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1935

2,233 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 112

Russia Sells Interest Chinese Eastern Railway

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

TOKIO, Tuesday:--Materialisation of the transfer of the Chinese Eastern Railway from the Soviet came at 2 a.m. to-day, concluding…

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Farmers' Motor Vehicles Tax Concession Statement by Transport Commissioner

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday:--A statement regarding the concession allowed the primary producer on the registering on the renewing of registration of motor…

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Sale of Motor Cycle Casino

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 2

Failure to notify the police of the sale of a motor cycle cost Jack M. Jordan a fine of 10s, with 8s costs, when he appeared before Mr. H…

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Huge Railway Deal in the East Tokio

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 7

After 19 months' negotiations for the transfer of the Chinese Eastern railway from Russia to Japan were concluded at 2 a.m. to-day, when…

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Explained Farm Motor Concessions Little Inconvenience Caused SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 7

A statement regarding concessions allowed the primary producer on the registering or the renewing of registration of a…

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Shire Roads Engineer's Report

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 3

The Byron Shire Engineer (Mr M. Smith) reported as follows to the last meeting of the Council:—As the staff did not start work…

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"Flying Flea" Represents £100 Aeroplane London

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 7

The "Daily Telegraph's" aviation correspondent says that a Frenchman, M. Mignet claims to have devised an aeroplane which can be…

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Road Opening Next

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 6

The official opening next Saturday of the network of roads in the Clarence and Richmond Valleys will be an event of paramount interest, not…

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Suspension Bridge Proposal for Brunswick Heads Scheme not Practicable

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 2

Recently the Metropolitan Sewerage and Drainage Board circularised the various councils throughout the State advising that they had at Nepean Dam a suspension fo[?]tbridge available for sale. Tenders for the purchase of same were being called to close on…

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Year's Figures Ballina Railway Revenue BALLINA

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 5

The first and last months of 1934 provided unusual revenue figures for the Ballina railway station. The aggregate business for December was the…

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Railway Excursion CASINO

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 10

Local railway officials are well satisfied with the patronage extended by the public to to-day's excursion train to Sydney. At Casino 33…

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Cows on Shire Roads

Tweed Daily · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 4

"Owing to the large amount of rain having inundated the low-lying country, most of my grass has been under water, with the result that I am…

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Bridge Notes. Technique of the Expert

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 7

In a recent big tourney at Crockord's, New York, where all the bridge experts were assembled, some brilliant play was seen, but nothing more brilliant than…

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Road Opening ToMorrow's Function

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 4

The official opening of the network of roads serving the Upper Richmond and Upper Clarence Will take place tomorrow at a selected…

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Road Accidents The Human Factor

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 3

The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. S. A. Maddocks), has kept a careful check on road accidents and the manner in which these have…

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Train Set on Fire Crossing Smash Petrol Showered Over Trucks

Tweed Daily · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday:-- Blazing petrol set fire to three trucks of wheat near Temora to-day when a train and motor lorry collided. The…

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Tenterfield Shire Council Upper Clarence Matters Beaury Creek Road

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 3

At the last meeting of Tenterfield Shire Council a letter was received from Lieut-Col. M. F. Bruxner, M. L. A., advising that a grant of…

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London Fashions Add to Road Dancer "Suicide Hats" Cannot See Traffic (From a Special Correspondent) LONDON, January 5 (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Fashion's "suicide hats" are a serious danger on the roads. Those hats which slope down rakishly over one eye make the wearer completely blind…

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Motorists Rally at Monte Carlo Adventures by the Way Monte Carlo

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 11

The first competitor in the Monte Carlo motor rally to reach here was Flight-Lieut. Cathcart Jones. The drive provided hair-raising…

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Motorists' Nightmare

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 7

Motorists using the Casino-Coraki- Woodburn road during the recent wet weather complained bitterly of the d elay in the completion of the new bridge over Oakey Creek, three mile s from Casino, and of the bad condition of the detour. The bridge has b een completed for some weeks, but the…

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