The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. Wednesday, February 5, 1947. Cost of Road Transport
DESPITE many rumours in circulation in recent months, there does not appear to be any likelihood of the early lifting…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
976 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 49
Work in Railway St. to Proceed
Tweed Shire Council on Monday day night agreed to a petition from South Murwillumbah residents seeking attention to Railway…
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As with so many other things that we used to say "can't be done," science has again confounded all our preconceived ideas…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: At Kingsburg (California) a Southern Pacific Railroad streamline express collided with a petrol…
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Richmond-Tweed Regional Committee, which met in Lismore yesterday, had before it a copy of a letter which was forwarded by New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Delayed Mullumbimby Race Day
Advice has benn received by the secretary of Mullumbimby Race Club (Mr. J. W. Irvine) that the Railway Department has agreed…
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Mr. O. C. Green reported to a meeting of the Urban Committee on Monday that he had received several complaints from farmers living on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coolangatta Move to Improve Aerodrome
A move, to have permanent improvements effected at Bilinga (Coolangatta) aerodrome was inaugurated at the monthly…
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SYDNEY, Friday: A two-year-old boy was knocked down by an electric train and killed near Roseville today…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A two-year-old boy was knocked down by an electric train and killed near Roseville today. The boy, Douglas Wayne Archbold,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters To The Editor (Letters to the Editor should be limited to 330 words). Dungarubba Road
Sir,—I attended a meeeting of the Broadwater-Kilgin-Bagotville-Dungarubba Progress Association, and the trip in the car was a nightmare…
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Co-operation between the Urbenville P.P.U. and Tenterfield Shire Council enabled the bridge between Urbenville and Beamy Creek to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl Falls From Train
CAIRNS, Monday: A young girt was found yesterday afternoon by railwaymen in a delirious condition near, the mouth…
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Murwillumbah Chamber of Commerce last night decided to ask the Main Roads Department to raise two sections of the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cost of Road Accidents
Actual cost in £ s. d. of road accidents, apart from physical suffering and pain, is a substantial reason why a much more energetic approach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Byron Bay Train Crowded on
One hundred and ninety-six people from Kyogle went by the Department of Railways excursion train to Byron Bay on Sunday. The stationmaster…
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So great was the rush for seats in the excursion train to Byron Bay yesterday morning that the queue from the booking office at South…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →May Delay Plant for Railway Dept
SYDNEY, Monday: The industrial crisis in Britain may further delay the manufacture there of additional plant urgently needed…
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Pleading guilty at Lismore Court yesterday to driving a motor car without being licenced for the purpose. Arthur George Fletcher, of…
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Sir,—Some time ago a deputation to the Commissioner for Railways, which asked for additional stopping places for the Brisbane express,…
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