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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Under Secretary of the Premier's Department (Mr. Roper) has told the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that the recently disbanded inquiry, into the New South Wales railway services should he continued. Mr. Roper's recommendation was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—A Strathfield railway porter was found with terrible injuries lying beside the line at Strathfield this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Caught between an electric train and the platform at Milson's Point late last night, Alastair McPhee, 23, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Casino Municipal Council has accepted the tender of the B.H.P. the sealing of portion of the Ky[?] Road…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Roads in the Kyogle Shire for which application will be made for Commonwealth Aid were chosen at the meeting of the council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →KYOGLE, Monday.—Claims that a community of 50 people at Jackson's Flat, near Tabulam, was undergoing hardship because of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifty residents--men, women and children in the Jackson's Flat area, near Tabulam--are being forced to live in primeval conditions because the bridge which gave them access to Tabulam was swept away in the June floods, and has not been replaced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work on the bitumen surfacing of parts of the Kyogle-Woodenbong road is well under way, shire eingneer, Mr. F. J. Bamfield, reported to yesterday's meeting of the Kyogle Shire Council. Mr. Bamfield reported that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PARIS, Monday: Tramway employees in Clermont Ferrand, Central France, approved a motion warning of a 24-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The recent widespread N.S.W. rains caused the greatest mechanical hold-up of motor vehicles in state history, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Monday: American private motorists used 30,700- million gallons of petrol in 1948,an increases of nine per cent. over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Minister for Works and Local Government should be asked how the proposed development of the port of Ballina, which will cost over £350,000, links up with the removal of the Ballina-Booyong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONSIDERING it had pleaded it could not restore the line because of "serious shortage of staff", the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"IT ALL HAPPENED in a second. A split second." Dramatically, with remembering horror, or just in a puzzled, normal way, they, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Tuesday: Matthew Soulsby. 42, married, of Corrimal, was killed instantly late today when a motor-cycle and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CORAKI, Wednesday.—Woodburn Shire Council today decided to apply for a grant of £2500 for 1949 under ths Commonwealth Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Shire Clerk (Mr. K. T. Arrowsmith) advised councillors at the meeting of Tintenbar Shire that their policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Kyogle Shire Council is to ask the N.S.W. Coal Board to make a grant for work on the Bonalbo colliery road. Details of the tonnage of coal carted over the road, as submitted at Monday's council meeting, will be sent to the Board…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—There is one aspect of your leader on the Ballina-Booyong railway which may allow officialdom room for complacency. I refer to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR: Please permit me to quote extracts from a booklet issued recently by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries:…
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