Road Maintenance Big Problem Soon Waradgery Shire Discusses Petrol Tax Grants
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 1
ROAD maintenance in the Waradgery Shire will become a big problem within two years, when ifc becomes a feature of Shire work and the lack of Petrol Tax money will add to the difficulty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Registration of Motor Vehicles
The Observer · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 2
Primary producers using heavy vehicles in seasonal periods only may find the Transport Departments…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier’s ride on motor cycle costs him £43
Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 9
He was too drunk to remember whether he was riding a motor cycle on the morning of January 1, a soldier from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Last Horse Tram
Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 3
LONDON, Sun.: Dick, the horse, gave the last horse-drawn tram in the British Isles its death warrant yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italian Migrants Bombard By-standers with Rubbish 800 in demonstration on railway station
Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Sun.; More then 800 Italian migrants leaving Spencer street railway station last night for fruit picking in the Mitdura district demonstrated against pressmen and threw rubbish of by-standers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerodrome Water Scheme Charges
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2
The price at which water is supplied to the Civil Aviation Department for use at the Hay aerodrome was queried by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads Being Bitumenised
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 8
The Municipal En[?] Ian Taylor) said yesterday Construction Services [?]` tracing firm, were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Damaged Roads
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2
An investigation of damage to the Maude river road and the Nap Nap road has been completed by the Waradgery Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gum Creek Bridge Finished
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2
Contract work on the Gum Creek bridge was completed this month, it was reported to a meeting of the Waradgery Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train passengers stranded in arid country
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 3
KALGOORLIE, Mon.: Five coaches of the East-bound Transcontinental train which left Kalgoorlie shortly after 10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Airman’s death in road smash
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 4
An inquest was held at Yarrawonga yesterday by the acting Coroner (Mr Don C. Forbes) into the death of Colin John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To the Editor Talent at Railway Station
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 2
Sir,—If the Albury Choral Society wants new members it would pay the people in charge of the society to go along to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 8
Recently a local resident drove his ear up to an Albury service station and requested the attendant to check oil, water, tyres and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road Safety Council and Pedestrian Crossings
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 2
Albury City Council will be asked to receive a deputation from the local branch of the Road Safety Council to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hillston Aerodrome
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 3
A special lease of the land on which the Hillston Aerodrome is located has been granted to Carrathool Shire from 1st January, 1952…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists Urged To Respect School Patrol Signals
The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 7
Now that the schools have re-opened after the summer vacation, the N.R.M.A. appeals to motorists to be particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court parts “Trammie” from 16th wife— “I am through with marriage”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 1
LOS ANGELES, Fri.: Francis Von Wie, 66-year-old “Ding Dong Daddy,” of the San Francisco Tramways, for the first time in 49 years was left without a wife yesterday as his 16th marriage was annulled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DAYSDALE Repairs to Main Road
Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 5
Council has wrought a transformation to Main Road 133, from Daysdale to Four Corners. Last winter this road became a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three men die in road accidents
Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 12
SYDNEY, Sun.: Three men were killed in road accidents in N.S.W. this week-end. John Anton, 34, of Lysaght’s…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →“Formations of roads generally poor qualify”
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 March 1953 · page 7
“I have to point out that these roads consist in the main of loam formations only, in some cases, of poor quality, and it…
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