Resheeting of Main Roads
The Department of Main Roads has informed Stroud Shire Council that an increase of £741 has been made in the main roads…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Bridge Over Anvil Creek
CESSNOCK, Wednesday.—The Kearsley Shire Council last night decided to co-operate with Branxton Progress Association…
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CESSNOCK, Wednesday.—The Main Roads Board wrote to Kearsley Shire Council submitting a proposal to alter the route…
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SYDNEY, Wed.— The road transport stoppage which yesterday involved 100 men at three carrying yards to-day spread to…
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STROUD, Wed.—The Masonite Corporation Ltd. has recently purchased a property in the Stroud district, but the roads in [?]…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Honesty boxes are to be installed in a number of Sydney trams as an experiment to increase…
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TAMWORTH, Wednesday.— Rooney David Wellesley Rowland, 4, was fatally injured yesterday when hit by a motor-lorry…
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Lower Hunter Shire Council authorised the clerk and engineer to complete the agreement with Kearsley Council for the…
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On Thursday night, the meeting convened by the Chamber of Commerce was held in the Shire rooms. The chair was occupied by Mr. F. Edstein, President…
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On the suggestion of the president (Cr. J. B. Carlton), Wallarobba Shire Council decided to protest to the Commissioner for Railways…
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SINGAPORE, June 25. — Five people were killed and about 30 Injured when the Singapore-Kuala-Lumpur night mall crashed…
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The shire engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) reported to Lower Hunter Shire Council that, following receipt of a petition from residents…
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The drainage of half a mile of road pavement between Mr. M, Tobin’s house and Hawley’s embankment, on the East Maitland…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.— When he was thrown from his motor-cycle on the Pacific Highway between Belmont and Swansea,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union stated that the union would insist that railwaymen have two days off a week under the 40-hour week. The men were opposed to any proposal by the…
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Almost five months ago, the Minister for Civil Aviation told Kearsley Shire Council that the provision of a waiting room, and the extension of water and…
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Commencing Monday next, June 30, the Armidale Express will run daily to and from Sydney. Mail trains previously running three…
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Some country train services reduced early this month owing to the coal shortage will be restored as from next Monday, June 30…
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Tabled in the correspondence was a letter from the Department of Main Roads, in reply to a previous request from the Shire…
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Mr. A. H. White, in a letter to the Council, brought before the notice of Councillors the matter of stones at the sides of the…
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