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

Railways, roads & transport, 1946

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Road To Webb's Creek Settlers Council Calls for Report

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 9

ACCESS for settlers in a portion of the Webb's Creek area is to bo the subject of a special report to the Colo Shire Council…

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Main Road Through Macquarie Street Opposed Windsor Council Discussion West of Town Suggested

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 2

OPPOSING the proposed diverting of the main road through the Macquarie-street residential area, a resolution adopted by the…

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Good Wishes On Retirement Two Popular Railwaymen Honoured Happy Richmond Function

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 1

SOME 60 fellow workers and wellwishers attended a very enjoyable evening in the Richmond School of Arts on July 27 in…

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Poor Ferry Service At Wiseman's Caused by Motor Breakdown Deputation to Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 9

THE general inconvenience and anxiety to residents caused by the recent poor ferry service at Wiseman's was stressed…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 10

The Comleroy Road P. and C. Association held its usual monthly euchre party in the local school room on July 27. These functions continue…

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Crushed By Train Coroner Holds Inquiry Accidental Death

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 2

ON hearing evidence as to how Francis Michael Keating was stuck by a train at Riverstone on May 8, the Hawkesbury District…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Injured Straying Stock Again

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 10

THE steadily-increasing list of accidents in and around this district due to straying stock had an addition on Wednesday…

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Mulgrave Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 August 1946 · page 3

When the overseer (Mr. C. Thompson) submitted to the last Windsor Council meeting an estimate for tar-surfacing the…

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New Six-ton Truck Windsor Council Decision Improving Road Work

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 August 1946 · page 11

PURCHASE of another tiping truck, of six tons capacity, to ensure more efficient roads maintenance, is contemplated by…

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Dangerous Road Conditions Glossodia Deputation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 August 1946 · page 1

DRAWING attention to road conditions considered dangerous to traffic, a Glossodia deputation warned the August meeting of…

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More Developmental Roads Shire Council Applies Prospect of Success

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 August 1946 · page 10

APPLICATIONS for the proclaiming of certain additional shire roads as developmental roads (maintenance of which is…

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Accidental Death Coroner Records Finding Pitt Town Road Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 August 1946 · page 4

A FINDING of .accidental death was recorded by the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston) regarding the…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 September 1946 · page 3

A very successful euchre party, under the auspices of the Comleroy Road P. & C. Association, was held in the school room on the evening of…

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Road Purchase Offer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 September 1946 · page 8

When John Coleman, Yarramundi Falls, submitted an offer to the last Richmond Council meeting to purchase a one-chain road beside the…

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Slow Train

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 2

Stating at the last Richmond Council meeting that the 5.40 train ex Central on week days was "slower now than it was twenty or thirty…

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Grader On Main Roads Only

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

Colo Shire Council decided at its September meeting to keep the power grader on main roads only for the time being, owing to the present…

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"Very Bad" Bridge At Glossodia Shire Engineer Reports

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 11

AS the result of an inspection made following a deputation to the previous meeting, the September meeting of the Colo…

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Roads Offer Alarms Council Suggestion to Meeting Main Traffic To Miss Windsor Department Co-operative

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 1

SOMETHING like consternation was caused at the last Windsor Council meeting by an officer of the Department of…

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Bridge Objection

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 13

An objection received by the September meeting of the Colo Shire Council from G. P. Sternbeck, Higher McDonald, to the proposed bridge…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 1

The Comleroy Road P. and C. Association conducted another of its popular euchre parties in the school room on September 21. The winners…

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