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

Railways, roads & transport, 1936

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Colo Shire Council Monthly Meeting Wright's Creek Bridge Effort Diphtheria Immunisation Centre Bulga Residents Remembered

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 1

HELD a week earlier than usual, owing to projected proceedings against council by a landholder being set down for hearing on Monday next, the…

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Court Sequel to Windsor Road Smash When Three Cars Collide See Page 12. Fell Asleep? Car Driver's Admission Fined £5 for Negligence Sequel to Windsor Road Smash

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 1

ADMITTING that he must have fallen asleep, momentarily, whilst driving a Pontiac car along Windsor-road at about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, May, 17 last,…

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Richmond Council Main Road Application Access in Time of Flood Work Dockets Discussion

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 7

A DECISION to enlist the assistance of other councils concerned in having the Blacktown-road proclaimed a main road to provide access to…

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Under the Influence Motor Lorry Driver Fined at Windsor Court Magistrate on Leniency

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 5

"PROBABLY, I am erring on the side of leniency in connection with the fine I intend to impose, but there are some features of the case in favor of the defendant,"…

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Without a License Motor Cyclist Fined Sequel to Richmond-road Smash

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. A. G. Hardwick, S.M., at the Richmond Police Court on Thursday, June 25, Jack Owen Donahay was charged with riding a motor cycle without…

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Nonagenarian's Death Late Mrs. Charlotte Timms Saw First Train Leave Sydney

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 3

MRS. CHARLOTTE TIMMS, mother of Mr. J. C. Timms, Shire Clerk of Colo Shire Council, died at her residence, Bestic-street, Rockdale, on Sunday night, aged 90…

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Self Help Orchardists Build Own Road Leet's Vale to Maroota

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 3

LABOR, with mattocks, picks and shovels, which about, a dozen orchardists in the Maroota district are giving in the making of a road, is in the nature of an investment…

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Richmond Council Electricity Extension Estimates £2,500 Loan Completed Blacktown Road Application

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 8

A DECISION to complete arrangements for a loan of £2,500, repayable over 20 years at 4½ per cent., for electricity undertakings within the municipality,…

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Motor Boat Club Second Annual Ball Successful Function

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 3

SPLENDIDLY organised and well favored so far as weather conditions were concerned, the second annual ball of the Upper Hawkesbury Motor Boat Club, held in the…

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Aeroplane Factory Richmond's Claims Advanced Many Attractive Advantages

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 10

THAT the claims of Richmond should be entered among the numerous applications by other centres for the proposed aeroplane factory to be subsidised by the…

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Richmond Council Rural Electricity Extensions Windsor Road Drainage Icelt Park Improvements

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 6

A MONG features of interest in the business dealt with by the Richmond Council at its meeting on Thursday evening of last week, were a decision…

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Motor Boat Club Third Annual "Smoko" Presentation of Trophies

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 14

WE had a "night out" on Saturday with the best sports in the district—the members of the Upper Hawkesbury Motor Boat Club. It was their third anual "sraoko,"…

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Richmond Aerodrome Activities Expanding Officers' Quarters to Cost £34,058

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 September 1936 · page 9

THE tender of Beat Bros., Ltd., builders, of Waverley, has been accepted by the Commonwealth authorities for the construction of single officers'…

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More Platting Areas for Richmond Aerodrome Federal Member's Plea

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 2

SPEAKING in the House of Representatives on September 17 last, Mr. J. N. Lawson put forward a very strong plea for greater attention by the Defence Department…

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Road to Leeton No Guarantee Given Mr. M. H. Pulsford's Visit

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 14

"I WANT to go to Leeton via Temora, Ardletlian and Barellan," asked Mr. M. H. Pulsford, a Windsor storekeeper, and the N.R.M.A. official produced the…

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New Motor Boat Club Formed at Sackville

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 16

A successful meeting- was held in the Sackville School of Arts on Saturday last, 19th instant, when a Motor Boat Club was formed, and officers elected as follows:—…

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Grant of £1,250 Road to Singleton Via Putty Assistant Minister's Offer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 5

Mr. R. B. Walker, M.L.A., has received the following: communication from the Assistant Minister for Works and Local Government (Major J. B. Shand):—…

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Windsor Council Tuesday's Meeting Main Road of Access Further "Blackouts" Forestalled Interesting Building Figures

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 1

INCLUDED in features of interest in the business dealt with by the Windsor Council at its meeting on Tuesday evening, was a report on the…

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Traffic Breach Motor Cyclist Fined at Windsor Police Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 October 1936 · page 12

WHEN a visiting motor cyclist was asked by a Windsor constable in George-street on an evening in August whether he had a rider's licence, he replied that he did…

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Richmond Council Sewerage Cost Prohibitive Valuable Park Addition Main Road Application

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 October 1936 · page 8

THAT the fears entertained regarding the Water Board's estimate of the probable cost of a sewerage scheme for Richmond were well founded was…

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