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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1955

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Direction Sign To Be Erected On Gums Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 March 1955 · page 8

The Municipal Council will erect a direction sign on The Gums Road at the intersection with the Wee Jasper road…

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Inveterate Tramps

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 March 1955 · page 7

“At Ouidja, the border between Algeria and Morocco, I met an elderly Yorkshireman, Harry Wright. I spotted him near the…

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Street Repairs to Motor Vehicles a Traffic Offence

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 March 1955 · page 8

Complaints have been received, by the Superintendent of Traffic regarding the cleaning and repairing of motor vehicles on…

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Council Starts on Hardwicke Road Sealing To Cost £1900

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1955 · page 2

With a Government grant of £1900 the Municipal Council has started work on the sealing of three quarters of a mile of the…

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Shire “Duly Dallying Around” Councillor’s Comment On Road Works

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1955 · page 3

The Goodradigbee Shire Council should give consideration to the Binalong and Boorowa roads whereat it had been “dilly dallying round spending money on roads of not the same calibre, as regards traffic, as these…

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Yass Motorists’ Lucky Escape

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1955 · page 3

The driver, Mr. Brian Pollack, his father, Mr. H. Pollack, and Mr. W. James, of Goondah, had a lucky escape when the car in…

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Road Safety Meeting Lapsed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1955 · page 1

The annual general meeting of the Yass branch of the Road Safety Council, which was to have been held at the Council Chambers…

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Nottingham Development Road Survey by Contract

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1955 · page 2

Relative to the Goodradigbee Shire Council debate on page 3 concerning the Nottingahm developmental road, the following…

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Survey Work on Nottingham Road to Be Postponed Would Delay Work On Binalong Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1955 · page 3

Goodradigbee Shire Council is not in a position to submit to the Department of Main Roads plans and specifications for any work to be done on the Nottingham developmental road before June 30, 1956…

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Request For Divisional Engineer To Inspect Main and Trunk Roads

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1955 · page 4

Goodradigbee Shire Council is concerned with the condition of main and trunk roads, and will ask the Divisional Engineer, Department of Main Roads, Mr. K. Jordan, to inspect the roads with the shire engineer,…

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Modern Equipment At Turner’s Motors Appearance Asset To Main Street

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 March 1955 · page 1

Since Mr. F. R. Turner took over Whalan and Bryson’s garage in July he has pent more than £1,000 installing…

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Model Train Exhibition Coming to “Linton”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 6

SUNDAY, April 17, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. will be a red letter day in Yass for the young and not so young, and grannie and grandps too, when a magnificent display of moving model trains, some up to 12 feet in length, will be…

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Bitumen Surface on Hardwicke Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 1

The length of bitumen surfacing on the Hardwicke road recently completed by the Municipal Council Road Staff, is an excellent…

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Road Safety Cars and New Rich Causes of Traffic Accidents

Yass Tribune-Courier · Wednesday 20 April 1955 · page 2

In a letter to the Herald, J.W.B., Sydney, writes; “I venture to suggest that two contributing factors have so far been overlooked in…

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Helped Injured Men Biala Road Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1955 · page 3

Mr. D. A. Booth, of Rossi St., came on the scene of an accident last Wednesday about 5.30 p.m., on the Biala Road, about nine…

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Acrimonious Shire Council Discussion Councillor Critical of Plant Delay On The Yass River Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1955 · page 1

In an acrimonious debate in the Shire Council Chambers in Rossi Street on Thursday, Cr. C. A. Grogan was critical of the time the plant has been working on the Yass River road on which the President, Cr. Geo…

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Road “Hogs” (To the Editor)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 April 1955 · page 2

Sir— I have before me a paragraph re some so called straying stock at North Yass. As I have seen…

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Love’s Creek Bridge Report To Be Submitted

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 April 1955 · page 2

The shire engineer will submit a report on the cost of a bridge over Love’s Creek on the Chidowla road…

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Boorowa Road Praised

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 May 1955 · page 7

The Boorowa road is getting a good coating of Kangiara gravel, and when it settles down will be one of the best…

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Work on Trunk Roads Conference With Divisional Engineer

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 May 1955 · page 7

At the last meeting of Goodradigbee Shire Council, the Divisional Engineer, Mr. K. Jordan, discussed the…

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