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Railways, roads & transport, 1950

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Motor Cyclist Fined £2

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 5

George Murray Wilson, of Old Windsor Road, Parklea, was fined £2 & 10/- Court costs by Mr V. H. Johnston, SM, at Gosford Court…

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"Govt. Aid For Roads Inadequate"

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 4

The Government's £400,000 plan for the restoration of roads and bridges damaged by floods by no means met the needs of Councils,…

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Empire Bay Bus Off Run Until Road Repaired

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 1

The Empire Bay bus service has been cancelled until the Empire Bay road is repaired. This was announced this morning by the manager of the Red…

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Motor Cyclists Races Next Sunday To Aid Scouts' Hall Fund

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 7

A motor cycle race meeting will be held at Jusfrute Park circuit, West Gosford, on Sunday. More than 60 riders from Sydney, Newcastle and Gosford districts will take part in the 32-event…

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Motor Cycling

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 7

The Gosford Motor Cycle Club's TT race meeting set down for last Sunday has been abandoned. Rain prevented the meeting…

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Voluntary Road Gangs In Three Districts

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 1

A committee has been formed to arrange voluntary labour gangs to repair roads at Mangrove Mountain, Peat's…

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Volunteers Made Kulnura Roads Trafficable

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 1

A special meeting called by the Kulnura branch of the APPU formed gangs to work on impassable roads in…

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Bad Roads Force Tradesmen To Cut Deliveries

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 1

Two Gosford butchers have restricted their deliveries because some roads in the district have become…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 1

A motor cyclist, Norman Hersley, 29, of Lennon Street. Rockdale, suffered severe concussion and abrasions when his motor…

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Gosford Railwayman's Promotion

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 1

Prior to his departure for Parkes, Mr Les Flakelar, of Gosford, was the guest of more than 20 fellow railway…

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"World Road" Inaugurated

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 8

The first milestone of the "world road without frontiers" was dedicated recently on this bridge—the Pont Valentre, Cahors, France, which was built in the 14th century. Advocates of World Government envisage the linking, by the "world road", of Moscow to…

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Wyong Council Aids Road Working Bees

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 3

"Every effort will be made immediately to supply stone for the worst road areas so local working bees can do their own repair…

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Riflemen To Repair Range Road

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 7

Gosford Rifle Club members will form a working bee next Sunday to repair the road leading to the club's range. Members will use a road grader lent by Mr Hilton…

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Averaged 93 mph To Win Motor Cycle Speed Trial

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 9

Ron ("Skeeter") Falconer averaged 93 mph over one-eighth of a mile at the Woy Woy airstrip on Sunday to…

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Sports Shorts Motor Cycling

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 11

Joe Peck will represent the Gosford Motor Cycle Club at the Central MCC's (Sydney) TT race meeting at Wallacia on Sunday…

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Sports Shorts Motor Cycling

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 7

Joe Peck had one win and five seconds from six rides at the Northern Districts clubs' TT motor cycle race meeting at Nicholl…

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Wiseman's Ferry Traffic Bridge Advocated

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 22 September 1950 · page 1

The Wiseman's Ferry Development Association was formed at a conference of seven district organisations convened by the…

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Body Found On Railway At Ourimbah

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 5

The body of a man, who had suffered severe head injuries, was found by a railway ganger, beneath the railway bridge over…

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Rover Scouts Fix Road Bridge At Ourimbah

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 6 October 1950 · page 8

Ten Rover Scouts of 1st East Chatswood repaired a road bridge leading to Mr W. R. Gasking's property in Berkely Road,…

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Road Safety Contest For Children

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 6 October 1950 · page 10

Believing that lessons learned in childhood make a deep and lasting impression, COR Ltd. is distributing a…

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