Opening Road Surfaces
The Colo Shire Council has had so much trouble with people securing permission to open road surfaces to lay pipes and failing to fill the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1943
38 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Joint Tour of the River Roads Shire Council Decision
AS a result of a discussion on a request from St. Albans for councillors to inspect the roads in that area, Colo Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Fines for Lighting Breaches Motorists and Cyclists
THE Windsor police are still maintaining a vigilant watch for motorists or cyclists without correct head or tail lights, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boundary Road Repairs
In reply to its request for further particulars of work proposed to be carried out on Boundary-road by Baulkham Hills Shire Council, at an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hard Task for Richmond Council. Important Road Repairs
THE difficult, problem of arranging for urgently-needed repairs to the Londonderry-road, which had been broken up by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Raid Passengers Before Court on Various Charges
AS a result off a visit to Riverstone by special officers of the Department of Railways on the morning of November 18, twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Bridge at Macdonald River. Shire Council Move
THE Macdonald River Bridge project to do away with tine Webb's Creek and Books' Ferries, was revived by the Colo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Closed
When the Richmond Council at its last meeting received a report from its consultant engineer, Mr. W. Lamrock, to the effect that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£50 Verdict in Damages Claim Road Accident Sequel
FOLLOWING a similar hearing at the previous court, when he gave a judgment for £50 claimed by a Rouse Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Protest Closing of Bridge Letter to Council. ~
THE inconvenience caused to a number of farmers by the recent closing of the Cooley Creek Bridge by the Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Bridge at Cooley's Creek Tenders Problem
HAVING previously decided to have concrete abutments and a new top provided for Cooley's Creek Bridge (recently closed as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grass on Roads
When Ald. Baldwin drew attention at the last Richmond Council meeting to the wall of green rubbish which had grown up on each, side of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bad Road
"I think it's the worst bit of road in the shire; none of our bye-roads are as bad," remarked the President (Cr. H. C. Matheson) at the May…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heard at the Bridge
While the water was rising there was continued coming and going at the corner above the Windsor Bridge, where the populace foregathered to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Tender Accepted
After having twice called tenders for the contsruction of the new Cooley Creek Bridge (the specifications having been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Needed Improvements Preparing for Future Floods Higher Roads—boat Service
AMONG facts which impressed themselves forcibly on the public mind as a result of the recent flood, after years of comparative immunity, two were outstanding—the need of uninterrupted road communication to Windsor and Richmond, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Regent "Waterloo Bridge"
Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor form, the outstanding romantic team of 1943 in "Waterloo Bridge," their new starring film which comes on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Day Excitement at Riverstone Train Smash and Fire
SATURDAY last was an unusually eventful day for Riverstone, when the customary calm of the township was upset by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Roads Requests by Council Added Area Repairs
THE very bad condition of two roads of considerable importance to residents in the added area was mentoned at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Safeguard for Phipps' Bridge Wooden "Wing" Decided
IN order to buttress the approach to Phipps' Bridge, at Red-bank Creek, against future dangerous scouring by flood waters…
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