Where Nurses Expect to Be Tipped and Concrete Roads Are Built in a Day
"I was surprised at the hospitals in America. They charge you anything from 12 to 150 dollars a day, and the hospital staff takes no more notice of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
220 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 11
Motor Traffic Breaches Bring £7 in Fines
John Frederick McMurray appeared before Mr. A. E. Debenham, P.M., at Tuesday’s Court of Petty Sessions on a charge of using an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jerricknora Creek Bridge State Member Is Moving
Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Department of Main Roads:—"With reference to your personal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →That Bridge Work Well in Hand Says Engineer
That hardy annual, the Jerricknora bridge, again came up for an airing at last Tallaganda Shire meeting, when the Department of Main…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Repair Costs
Institution of a flat rate for various motor vehicle repairs, in order to reduce the present exorbitant costs, is advocated by the chief engineer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Excursions
The Secretary for Railways, Mr. S. R. Nicholas, has announced that arrangements had been made for excursion tickets to be issued (at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Councillors Worried Over Bad State of Roads
Bitter criticism from the ratepayers caused the Tumut Shire councillors to voice their feelings at the monthly meeting of the Council concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Express Train Derailed Fifteen Injured LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.)
Only the fact that the five rear coaches overturned on an embankment prevented serious loss of life when the Euston-Manchester…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Pretty Shire Office [?] and Shocking Roads
Before a tender for painting the Shire office was accepted at last meeting Cr. Hassall had a few words to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work by Road Gong
The Town Clerk reported to last meeting of the Municipal Council that the following work had been carried out in the municipality by the road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plea for More Road Fellowship
On the principle that constant condemnation of faults, without praise where it is due, produces unfortunate results, the N.R.M.A. have furnished…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some Marvels That Will Soon Be Here Raincoats for 6d: Roads May Be Plastic: Cigarettes to Be Impervious to Wet
I went from Washington to Detroit. At Detroit I took the Greyhound Line coach for Port Huron. At Port Huron I took the bus to Sarnia. Ontario, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Braidwood-tarago Road [?]Ove for Proclamation As a Highway
proposal to make representations for the construction of a highway between Braidwood and Tarago, to f[?]litate the conveyance of goods to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Here and There Another Slug for the Motorist
News that the Government is contemplating slugging the motorist another 25 per cent, on his motor registration will raise a howl of protest from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Taxation Rates
Possibility of a rise of 25 per cent. in the rates of State motor vehicle taxation is stressed by the N.R.M.A and R.A.C.A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Federal Control of Road Monies Hot Attack by Country Party Leader
The Commonwealth Aid Roads and Works Bill, 1947, sponsored by the effervescent and irresponsible Mr. Eddie Ward, will cause consternation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Taxation Rates
Feasibility of a rise of 25 per cent. in the rates of State motor vehicle taxation is stressed by the N.R.M.A. and R.A.C.A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Traffic Breaches
At Tuesday Court of Petty Sessics before Mr. A. E. Debenham P.M. C. J. Luton pleaded guilty to two charges through Mr. J. L…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trains in Collision At Local Railway Yards
A stock train from Cooma collided head-on with a goods train on Tuesday night in the local railway yards about 9.10 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forest Roads Council Hands Control to Forestry Department
At last meeting of Tallaganda Shire Council a letter was read from the Forestry Office asking that disused roads, viz, Old Araluen and Reidsdale…
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