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Railways, roads & transport, 1960

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Windouran Engineer Reports Improvement To Moulamein Road

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 July 1960 · page 3

A marked improvement in the Moulamein Road following maintenance grading and patching between the 33 mile and 64 mile pegs was reported to the Windouran Shire Council meeting on Thursday by the…

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Council Will Contribute Half Cost of Repair Work to Tuppal Bridge

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 July 1960 · page 5

The Conargo Shire Council will contribute half cost of repair work to the Tuppal Bridge on the Aratula Road Crossing. This was decided last…

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Additional Live-stock Train To Recommence Newmarket Ran

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 July 1960 · page 1

An additional live-stock train service from Deniliquin to Newmarket on alternate Tuesdays will be re-introduced from August 9. The Victorian Railways…

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Two People Killed on Finley Road in Crash with Truck

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 August 1960 · page 1

Two Victorian people — a man and a woman—were killed in a road accident on the Finley road five miles from Blighty on Friday night. They were Mrs. Nancy Spurling, 40, of Gooran, via Euroa, and Mr. Thomas…

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Tragic Motor Accident

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1960 · page 3

A tragic motor accident occurred on the Finley-Deniliquin road on Friday week at about 7.30 pm when two…

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Ran Off Road

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 August 1960 · page 1

A Deniliquin woman and her [?] daughter escaped injury [?] their car ran off the road [?] the Brick Kiln Bridge on…

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Moving For New Bridge Over Edward River

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 August 1960 · page 8

The Windouran Shire Council was advised last week that representations had been made to the Commissioner of…

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P.P. Board Re-affirms Its Decision On Refusing Loam For Road Use

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 August 1960 · page 9

The Jerilderie P.P. Board has again reaffirmed its Decision to refuse Conargo Shire Council permission to remove loam from the board’s travelling stock routes for road work…

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Livestock Train in Jeopardy

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 August 1960 · page 2

Support by graziers along the Balranald line of the special Monday live-stock train had been disappointing,…

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New Bridge for Moulamein

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 August 1960 · page 5

The Department of Main roads has agreed to construct a new bridge over the Edward River at Moulamein at the…

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Sealing Tender Accepted For Conargo Roads

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 3

The Conargo Shire Council has accepted, the tender of the company, Emoleum Ltd., of Sydney and Melbourne, for…

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Nearly Three Million Potential killers in Roads of Australia

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 1

There are approximately 3,000,000 potential killers on the roads of Australia. And over one-third of them are in N.S.W. where…

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631 Dead So Far in N. S. W. Road Fatalities Already Exceed Last Year Total

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 5

Road deaths in N. S. W. have shown a terrible increase over the first eight months of 1960 compared with last year. The officer-in-charge of the Deniliquin police district…

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A Lack of Civic Pride In Town Road Dumping

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 September 1960 · page 1

There must be no civic pride in people with insist on dumping rubbish around the town, the Mayor of…

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Increase in Road Fatalities

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1960 · page 3

For some years the Ron Safety Council of Austral and the various Police Departments throughout [?]…

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Four Victorians Injured In Road Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 September 1960 · page 1

Four Victorian people were injured at the weekend in a collision, between two utilities on the Cobb Highway about…

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Mayor’s Appeal to Avert Death This Year Looks Like a Record---In Road Corpses

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 September 1960 · page 1

The second annual congress of the Road Safety Council of N.S.W., which began ia Sydney yesterday, meets in the midst of a trend which is likely to produce by the end of this year, 1960, the worst annual road…

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Racecourse Road Inspection by Works Committee

The Pastoral Times · Friday 30 September 1960 · page 5

The municipal council’s works committee will inspect the racecourse road and an alternative road to provide…

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Inquest’s Emphasis on Responsibility of Motorists on Roads

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 October 1960 · page 1

The District Coroner Mr. W. M. Sherley on Friday stressed the grave responsibility of drivers to the general public, particularly in view of the present heavy road toll. He was speaking at the conclusion of a long inquest into the deaths of two…

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Road Start Soon

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 October 1960 · page 2

The section to be sealed on the Hay Road this summer has been surveyed and a start will be made shortly on the…

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