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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1952

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California's Road to Success (Pattern for Australia) Leading U.S. Plant Breeder Tells Wellington Growers How Initiative, Courage and Enterprise Overcame Tremendous Disadvantages

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 1

THE amazing story of how vegetable growers in California overcame the tremendous disadvantage of having to freight their product across the United States to New York and compete on an open market with growers closer to the seaboard was told by Professor G. C. Hanna, of the University of California, in the Agricultural Hall last…

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Three Motor Accidents Man Fractures Leg

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

Friday, Saturday and Sunday each recorded a motor crash within the district. On Friday evening Mr. Geoff Hill, of…

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Train Services for Easter

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 1

Alterations to train services for the Easter week-end were announced by a Narrowmine railways officer to-day…

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Bourke Municipal Council Aldermen to Discuss Appointment of a Manager for Electricity Undertaking at Next Meeting. Roads Works Programme to Be Carried Out

The Western Herald · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 3

A lengthy discussion on the management of the Electricity Undertaking and the need for a…

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Motor Vehicle Lights

The Western Herald · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 4

Autumn weather and the return of longer nights call for greater care by motorists. The N.R.M.A. reminds drivers that…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Sales Tax Anomaly

The Western Herald · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. has asked the Federal Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) to amend the Sales Tax Act to correct the…

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New Railway Barracks Proposed

The Western Herald · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 4

For some considerable time Mr. Joe Clark, M.H.R., and Mr. Jack Renshaw, M.L.A., have been pressing the Minister for…

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[?] World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Hints to Motorists

The Western Herald · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 10

Carbon monoxide, a deadly poisonous gas, is always present in the exhaust of your car, says [?] The richer the…

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Railways Asked To Provide Pedestrian Crossing

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 1

Narromine Chamber of commerce has asked for the Narromine Municipal Council's operation in supporting the…

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Second Road Safety Award to a Woman Driver

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 12

For the second week in succession a woman driver won the Wellington Road Safety Council's novel competition for…

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Shire Seeks £10,000 From Federal Road Aid Fonds

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 4

Works totalling nearly £10,000 are to be sought by the, Timbrebongie Shire Council from Federal Aid Roads funds…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Overcoming an Anomaly

The Western Herald · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 10

The N.S.W. Road Transport Department and the Police Traffic Branch are preparing details of a plan to overcome…

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Morris-austing Merges Into British Motor Corporation

The Western Herald · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 4

The £66 million Austin-Morris motor merger has been carried a step further by the registration of a new company…

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Coolah Aerodrome Progress Reported

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 10

The Coolah Shire Council is determined to have established in the shortest possible time, an aerodrome…

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Road Works Coolah Shire

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 5

At the last meeting of the Coolah Shire Council the engineer (Mr. I. R. Macintosh) reported that K. Manning and…

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Road Safety Award to Council Employee

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 1

A Wellington Shire Council employee won this week's award in the Road Safety Council's competition for the safest, most…

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Sequel To Train Wreck: C’bran Youth Sentenced

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 5

Pleading guilty to two charges, one of having, on December 19,' 1951, at Coonabarabran, by an unlawful act, to wit, the…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Easter Motoring

The Western Herald · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 1

Many motorists are planning extensive tours over the-long week-end at Eastertide says the N.R.M.A. Provision should…

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Obley Parents Worried About Unsafe Bridge on School Bus Route

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

THE parents of schoolchildren who travel by bus over a bridge on the Obley-Yeoval road are concerned that the bridge will collapse and there will be a serious accident unless it is repaired quickly…

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