Need Stressed To Repair Flood Damaged Roads
Northern Star · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 7
Many roads in Lismore damaged by the flood last month would break up if they were not resurfaced soon, the city engineer, Mr. H. G. Murray, told a meeting of the works committee…
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Northern Star · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 4
CASINO, Wednesday.--The damaged Irving Bridge at Casino will be rebuilt as a steel and concrete structure. The replacement is…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 1
Kyogle Shire Council has accepted the grant of £16.553 from the Department of Main Roads as its share of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move For High Level Bridge At Toonumbar
The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 7
Toonumbar P. and C. Association is asking Kyogle Shire Council to erect a high level bridge over…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Money for Roads Increased by C'wealth Scheme
Northern Star · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 7
Under Commonwealth aid roads legislation which came into force on July 1, 1950, the money allocated to roads from petrol tax increased from £9.3 millions in 194950 to £15.7 millions in 195253. This is revealed in a statement from the Federal Treasurer, Sir Arthur…
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The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 1
Flood damage to Kyogle Shire Council roads and bridges has been officially estimated at £68,000. This is £13,000 more than the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move to Expedite Road Work
Northern Star · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 5
CASINO, Sunday. -- Northern Rivers and Tablelands Federated Chambers of Commerce will seek the assistance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£13,000 Grant Given For Road Grady's Creek Damage
The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1
The Commissioner of Main Roads has made available a grant of £13,000 for the construction of the first section of Grady's Creek Roard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Tell Coroner Shooting in Railway Carriage Admitted
Northern Star · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 5
SYDNEY, Monday. -- A C.I.B. detective told the City Coroner, Mr. E. J. Forrest, today that a labourer charged with murder had told him a C.S.I.R.O. scientist had made immoral suggestions to him. Det. Sgt. Donald George…
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Northern Star · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 1
CANBERRA, Tuesday.-- There were 198 fewer people killed in road accidents last year than the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rifle Produced At Train Death Inquest
Northern Star · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- A bullet removed from the body of a scientist found dead in a train had been fired from a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railways To Replace Shipping
Northern Star · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 4
SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- The Railways Department would provide services to transport goods previously carried by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Locusts Cause Train Smash
Northern Star · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 1
SALTA (Argentina), Wednesday. -- Argentine authorities have sent a fleet of helicopters against a plague…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Roads Barred to Toddlers
Northern Star · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 6
Hungary is taking road safety so seriously that new traffic laws which have come into force this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Road Lift" Trucks in Crashes
Northern Star · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 5
MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday. -- Three interstate transport trucks engaged in the "road lift" between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£13,000 for Grady's Crk. Road
Northern Star · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 7
KYOGLE, Sunday. -- A grant A £13,000 to enable construction of the first section of Grady's Creek road has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Road Toll in Goulburn Area
Northern Star · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 5
GOULBURN, Monday.--The death of three R.A.A.F. men last night brought the Goulburn district road toll…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Triumph for Railways
Northern Star · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 4
BY completing its major reconstruction task on many miles of flood devastated railway track between Rappville and the border ahead of schedule the Department of Railways has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bridge Load Limit Raised
Northern Star · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 4
CASINO, Tuesday.--The load limit on Irving Bridge has been raised from 15 tons to 20 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Podmore on Barfleur in Railway
Northern Star · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 10
SYDNEY, Thursday.--Jockey G. Podmore will replace J. Thompson on Barfleur in the seven furlongs…
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