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

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Cycle Racing First Road Race Held

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 5

The Hawkesbury Amateur Cycle Club held its first road race of the season on Saturday, with three sealed…

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Shire Roads Federal Aid Programme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 7

THE Colo Shire Council's Federal Aid Roads Programme for 1954-55 was finally revised and…

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Badly Hurt in Road Collision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 1

A MOTOR cyclist was badly injured when involved in a collision with a car at North Richmond on…

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Kurrajong Railway Lin e Officially closed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 3

The certain was Usually rung down 021 the Kurranjong Mine controversy early this month, when a Bill providing' for closing of the line was passed…

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Measures To Save Shire Bridge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 5

RE-ROUTING of a creek into its former channel, and measures for prevention of future erosion, were…

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Suggestion For Putty Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1

In a letter to the April meeting of the Colo Shire Council, the Berambing and Mt. Tomah P.A. suggested…

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Two Councils To improve Boundary Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2

A CONFERENCE between representatives of Windsor Council and Baulkham Kills Shire…

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Condition of Bowen's Creek Road "Awful"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2

ATTENTION was drawn to the "awful condition" of the Bowen's Creek Road in a letter from the Mt…

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Kerbside Pumps On Main Roads To Be Removed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2

A REQUEST that councils order removal of remaining kerbside petrol pumps from main roads in…

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Further Tar Sealing Of Two Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 1

Early tar-sealing by-contract, of Cornwallis Road and Pitt Town Bottoms Road was approved by Windsor Council at its April meeting…

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Discussion On Better Roads In Cornwallis

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 9

NEED for better roads in the Cornwallis area was claimed in a discussion on the subject at the May…

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Appointment Of Road Hand

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 10

Colo Shire Council at its May meeting left to the President (Cr. H. C. Matheson) and engineer (Mr. F. E…

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Wiseman's To Books' Ferry Road Policy

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 14

PREVIOUSLY outlined to the Colo Shire Council by the former D.M.R. Divisional Engineer, the policy…

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Council Told Of Proposed Road Widening

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 9

ADVICE of a proposed widening of a section of Bell's Line Road was received by the May meeting…

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"Costly Job" Now To Widen Reach Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 1

WIDENING Freeman's Reach Road without the use of a mechanical excavator-loader of the right type would be "a very costly job," Colo Shire Council was told at its [?]ay meeting…

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Thrown From Motor Cycle

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 1

AN accident during a motor cycle race at Box Hill on Sunday resulted in one competitor being…

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Move To Make Road Safer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 5

Designed to make sections of Bell's Line Road safer for traffic, recommendations to the Department of Transport…

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People Want More Work On Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 9

Two requests for more attention to the Richmond end of the Cornwallis Road were neatly parried at the May meeting of the Windsor Council…

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Badly Hurt in Motor Cycle Fall

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 12

A YOUNG motor cyclist was very seriously injured in a fall from a motor cycle on Bell's Line Road on…

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Timber Loads Damage Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 2

On the motion of the President (Cr. H. C. Matheson), Colo Shire Council at its June meeting decided to ask…

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