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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1930

102 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 5 of 6

Strange Inquest Midnight Sitting at Wollombi Sequel to Motor Smash

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 October 1930 · page 9

Midnight is a strange hour to hold an inquest, but one which began at Wollombi at 1.30 a.m. on. Friday was continued by the Coroner till. 12.30 a.m. on Saturday, when…

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Books Ferry Another Bridge Proposal Civic Representative Ignored

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 3

LARGELY-SIGNED by a great number of residents of the Macdonald River district; a petition was forwarded to Colo Shire Council meeting on Monday by Mr. R. Bruce…

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Boundary Road Unemployed Relief Works Ald. Hession Complains

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 8

WINDSOR Council was notified by the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. E. H. Farrar) at last meeting that the following works had been approved in…

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Windsor Farmer Killed Thrown From Cart on Bridge Fatality at Cornwallis

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 3

EDWIN GOW, 73, a well-known Hawkesbury farmer, was fatally injured when his horse and cart were precipitated over the Cornwallis bridge on Friday morning…

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High Wages, the Road to Prosperity How to Get Them

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 5

IN current issues of the "Saturday Evening Post," Henry Ford gives the recipe in detail. If he were only a theorist one might smile at his quite new theories of…

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Are Railways Safe? Labor Candidate Strikes Trouble Question of Staff Reductions

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 7

Labor candidate Acason, speaking at Gosford on Friday night, said sacking of railway employees had been carried to such an extent under the Bavin regime that the…

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Fell Off Engine Railway Fireman's Death Had Just Exchanged Staffs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 8

When the 3.30 p.m. train was drawing into Riverstone station on August 30, the fireman, Clarence Edward Jamieson, exchanged staffs with the officer in charge and almost…

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Old North Road Question of Maintenance Deputation to Main Roads Board

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 October 1930 · page 12

Among the matters dealt with by the Kearsley Shire Council last meeting was a report by the President (Cr. Burns), dealing with the question of the maintenance of the…

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High Wages, the Road to Prosperity the Fear of Overproduction

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 October 1930 · page 5

THE, fear of overproduction, as usually understood, is scouted as a delusion by Henry Ford. In the following brief quotations an idea of his point of view is given…

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Schoolboy Killed Crushed Under Heavy Lorry Wilberforce-road Fatality Coroner Exonerates Driver

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 October 1930 · page 9

RETURNING home on a pushbike from the Richmond Rural School on the afternoon of the 9th instant, Percy James Salter, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James…

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Fell Over Bridge Death of Edwin Gow "Accidental" Says Coroner Structure Was Safe for Traffic

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 October 1930 · page 6

WHEN Edwin Gow (72), a well-known Hawkesbury farmer, endeavored to cross the Ricaby Creek bridge, on Cornwallis-road, with a…

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Boundary Road (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 3

Sir,—Will you grant me space to reply to the Windsor Council's [?]ticism of the Maraylya P.A. delegates, and to state the real truth concerning their actions at the recent…

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Unemployed Relief Work. £500 for Loughlin Park Road Another Gang to Be Appointed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 6

WINDSOR COUNCIL was advised by the L. G. Department and the Minister for Labor and Industry at last meeting that a grant of £500 had been made available from…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 5

Mr. H. M. Anderson, of Moss Vale, who recently underwent a critical operation is, we are pleased to say, making a remarkable recovery. It is expected that he will be…

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Is It Dangerous? Bridge at Cornwallis Question of Control Agreement to Be Reviewed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 6

AT a recent meeting of the Richmond Council the condition of the bridge over Ricaby Creek at Cornwallis was commented on, the…

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Cornwallis Bridge Relief Grant Refused

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 November 1930 · page 4

In regard to the proposed deputation from the Windsor and Richmond Councils on the questions (1) a grant towards the cost of replacing Cornwallis bridge, and (2) a further…

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Main Roads Board Levy Windsor Council Wants Reduction Fire Brigade Contribution, Too

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 10

ALD. GILLESPIE, at last meeting of the Windsor Council, moved that representations be made to the Main Roads Board in an effort to have the levy for the…

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"Menace to Life" Bridge Near Cattai Creek

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 December 1930 · page 3

Writing to Baulkham Hills Shire Council at its last meeting, H. B. Trevor, of Cattai, again called attention to the dangerous condition of the bridge near the Cattai…

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Mayor and Windsor Aldermen Inspect Roads In Added Area See Page 3 the Added Area Tour of Inspection with the Mayor and Aldermen

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 December 1930 · page 1

TN company with the Mayor (Aid. Dean) and several of his colleagues, the town clerk (Mr. Mason) and overseer (Mr. Thompson), of the…

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Selfish Attitude Boundary Road Expenditure Maraylya P.a. Delegates Very Hard to Please Facts Misrepresented - Mayor Replies to Critics

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 December 1930 · page 1

DELEGATES of the Maraylya Progress Association have adopted a most selfish attitude in regard to the expenditure by the Windsor Council of certain unemployed relief money on the Boundary-road. Notwithstanding the fact that they have been told repeatedly that only £800 of the £2,000 grant recently…

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