Motor Camp at Katoomba N.R.M.A. SCHEME Council Agreeable to Extend Facilities "Best in State"
As forecasted in last Friday's "Echo," the National Roads and Motorists' Association placed a definite proposal for the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
208 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 9 of 11
Railway Electrification Thanks to Mr. Knight
A letter from Mr. Hamilton Knight, M.L.A., was read at Tuesday's meeting of Katoomba Council, in relation to the refusal of the…
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The vexed question of Kerbside petrol pumps was again before Blackheath Council, at Tuesday's meeting, when a letter was received…
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The Main Roads Board informed the Shire Council, on Wednesday, that Messrs. Dawson, Hope, and Glanville (surveyors to Messrs. A…
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During discussion of the official opening of the District Hospital, at Wednesday's meeting Mr. L. A. Cartwright suggosted that, in view…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.C.Q. Queensland Motorists Reception at Katoomba
The 29 cars of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland swept over the Marked Tree Hill promptly at 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Here…
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A grant of £1,300 will be made available to the Nepean and Wollondilly Shire Councils towards the cost of a new bridge over the Nepean…
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ACKNOWLEDGING the welcome of the Mayor, at Katoomba Town Hall, yesterday, the Chairman of the Fixtures Committee of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland remarked that he regarded Katoomba as an ideal terminus for rellability trials. He added that…
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The Shire Engineer reported at Wednesday's Connell meeting that Fifth Avenue, on the [?] fail, Road, had been inspected, in…
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A letter from the Main Roads Board, in connection with the kerbing and guttering in Wentworth Falls, on the North side, from a point…
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A Domain orator, in reply to an interjection, retorted, "You would growl at a front seal in heaven." The quip may verge on the…
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In connection with the widening of the overbridge and the approaches on each side of the line at Went-worth Falls, and the asphalting of…
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In question time, at Tuesday's meeting of Blackheath Council. Ald. Kerslake asked was there any information regarding the survey of the…
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During question time in the House, on Wednesday, Mr. Hamilton Kingit, M. L. A., remarked:-"Last session I usked a question in regard…
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In answer to the Shire Council's query concerning electric light poles, a communication from the Local Government Department, received at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →KATOOMBA'S £40,000 Loan Reviewed £7000 Remaining for Roads the Estimates Exceeded, and Utility Reduced Leura Mall to Absorb £2,500
It is interesting to review progress related to the £40,000 permanent improvement loan floated by Katoomba Council. Broadly the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Nimble Sprat: Making Motorists Pay for Burial of their Victims At last meeting of Katoomba Council, it was resolved to re-impose the parking fee of 6d. per car at Echo Point
Just sixpence! Look here It is not very dear; And forty small sprats make a quid. In the harbor, they charge…
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In a letter to Blackheath Council, received by that body on Tuesday, Shipley Progress and Fruitgrowers' Association expressed thanks to the…
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Those present at the monthly meeting of Katoomba Chamber of Commerce, on Monday night, were Messrs. R. O. Steward (president)…
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Frederick Alfred Gillard, of Leura, was charged with two offences, at Katoomba Police Court, on Tuesday. The first was an accusation of having…
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