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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1936

2,205 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 111

In Two Months Road Rebuilding Work Ballina-ten'field Casino

Northern Star · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 8

Developments in connection with important reconstruction work on two sections of the Ballina-Tenterfield road…

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Grave Fears for Safety Missing Teacher Motor Cycle Tour of Territory

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Friday:--Grave fears are felt for the safety of Mr. Ellis Bankin, a Victorian school teacher, who left Alice…

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Big Contracts Let. Development of British Railways

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday:--Contracts worth more than £500,000 have been placed' by the London and Northeastern Railway in connection with a…

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Fatally Crushed. Queensland Railway Fireman

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 5

MARYBOROUGH, Friday:--Jack Connolly (40), married, a fireman attached to the Railway Department at Bundaberg, was fatally crushed…

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Increased Exports British and American Motor Industry

Northern Star · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 13

Recently issued statistics of the automobile industries of Great Britain and U.S.A. show that both countries during…

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Hints for the Motorist Transmission and Chassis

Northern Star · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 14

The qualities and purpose of engine oils and the need for using the approved grade of lubricant in the engine have often been emphasised…

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Telephone Train Control

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 4

The telephone train control system, which was first established in New South Wales at Sydney, in November, 1934, has been extended to the Taree…

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Body Exhumed After Fortnight Railway Worker Sensational W.a. Case

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 3

PERTH, Saturday.--There was a sensational sequel before sunrise to-day to the death of a railway worker on January…

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Country Life Women's Views Motor Taxation Casino

Northern Star · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 4

In a letter tabled at the meeting of the North Coast Council of the Country Women's Association held at Casino, the R.S.P.C.A…

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Bridge Notes. Robot Bridge Player

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 1

Bridge players oversells have a new automatic device by which, when a coin is dropped in a slot, lighted symbols representing cards appears in panels…

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German Activity. Strategic Roads and Motor Transport

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 5

PARIS, Sunday:--General Serrigny, ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff, devotes an article in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" to…

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Goraki Bridge Club

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 1

At a meeting of the Committee on Thursday evening the resignation of Mr. J. O'Brien, Secretary, who has left the district, was received, and Mrs. E…

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Road-work Discontinued

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 4

Unemployment relief work on the Burringbar-Mooball section of the Pacific Highway has been discontinued, and the men and a considerable…

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Strategic Roads On Three Frontiers PARIS

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 9

General Serrigny, ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff, to-day devotes an article to Germany's development of strategic roads and motor…

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Survey Work Ballina-Tenterfield Road

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 4

Survey camps for work on two sections of the Ballina-Tenterfield road in Tomki Shire have been established by the Main Roads Board…

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Fell in Front of Train. Man Frightfully Mutilated

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday:--A man believed to be William Burns, an insurance canvasser employed by the T. & G. Society, was frightfully…

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Constant Stream of Visitors View Funeral Wreaths Queen Mary Motors to Aldershot

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 6

LONDON, Sunday:--From dawn to dusk to-day a continual stream of 130,000 people, aggregating 250,000 since January 29, filed past…

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Government Hostile ? Mt. Isa-Gulf Railway Proposal

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 6

CANBERRA, Monday.--Though Mr. Pease (Queensland Minister for Lands) refused to comment on the proposal by the Mt. Isa Company that…

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Railway Commissioner's Visit

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 4

The Commissioner for New South Wales Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan) acompanied by Departmental officers, is scheduled to arrive in Murwillumbah…

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Railway Commissioner Kyogle on Thursday Many Deputations

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 4

Making his Annual tour of inspection of the North Coast, the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. J. T. Hartigan) and other…

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