Shire To Spend £6340 on Two Roads This Year
Gundurimba Shire Council will spend £6340 on surfacing portions of the Boatharbour-Cowlong and Tucki-Rous roads before September. It has made application for a further £5000…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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"Stagnation" Without Roads Local Government-- Full Partner In State, Commonwealth System
"Transport represents the lifeblood of a community, and where you interfere with than transport or fail to provide it then things must lead eventually to stagnation," said Mr. E. L. Vincent, past Shire President, on Tuesday night…
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The greatest menace on the roads today is the speeding roadhog, Mr. G. S. Heather, of the Lismore branch of the…
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SYDNEY, Sund.- Four men lost their lives in separate accidents in N.S.W. during the weekend…
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CASINO, Sunday.-The Tomki Shire Engineer, Mr. E. J. Smith, at the shire meeting, said the Casino-Grafton Road, between Casino boundary and Myrtle Creek, was being…
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Sir,—Terania Shire has been considering establishing a new road, via Larsson's and Arthur's properties, adjoining…
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An equa crepe frock, with brown accessories, w[?] worn by Lila Dorothea Sneesby, daughter of Mrs. A. Jc[?] ensen,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Polio or any other disease is not killing the population nearly as fast as road smashes and accidents,"…
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Bridge party on Saturday night at the Anderson Street home of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Weaver, in honour of Mr. and Mrs. E. L…
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A young motor cyclist was badly injured when his machine left the road and crashed into a cemetery at North Lismore last Sunday night…
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DUBBO, Thursday.—A Supreme Court jury at Dubbo tonight awarded Mrs. Patricia Armati, £7000 damages in her…
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A proposal that road wardens patrol sections of roads in times of flood to report washaways and road slips was received at the meeting of Terania Shire Council…
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Terania Shire Council decided to apply to the Government for permission to raise a loan of £30,000, to be repaid over a period of from five to eight years, for the metalling of roads which…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP). — At least three men were killed and 69 football fans were injured—some seriously—in a…
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GRAFTON, Sunday.—A railway ganger was killed instantly when the engine of a goods train smashed head-on…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two new Australians were killed when two motor cycles collided on the…
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CASINO, Monday.-Pieces of steel discovered on the loop line at Fairy Hill signal box had been placed there by a…
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TOKIO, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter). — Ninety-eight persons were burned to death today when they were trapped in a…
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Lismore City Council will support a move to construct a deviation north of Blue Knob on the…
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GENEVA, Wednesday (AAP). âA 40 yards wide avalanche yesterday swept the first three coaches of the Milan-Zurich…
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