State Blamed For Bad Roads
“The lag in road work in New South Wales can be traced directly to the Cahill Government’s refusal to use for roads more than a mite…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1955
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Cooma Highway “Horror Stretch” Parlt. is Told of Bad Roads Around Canberra
“If any honorable member has any doubt as to the urgency of the need for better roads, let him go out and travel the roads surrounding Canberra,” said Mr. Allan Fraser (Lab., Eden-Monaro…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fridge Motors Burned Out
Loss of one phase from a substation in Morrissett Street last week resulted in several three-phase electric refrigerator motors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Loan Program for Road Works
Queanbeyan Municipal Council at its last meeting adopted a Loan Program totalling £14,000 for next summer’s roadworks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Urges Better Road to the Coast
Improvement of the road from Canberra to the coast was advocated by Mr. Warren McDonald (chairman of McDonald…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lorry Tray Slices Through Car Like Scythe Truck Drivers Cans Play Big Part in Reduction Road Toll
The predominance of fatall collisions in country areas involving motor lorries of various proportions is of such a disturbing nature that has become of one of the major problems of the roads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tyreless Tube Makes Motoring So Much Safer
The new tubeless tyre which standard equipment on mos American 1955 model cars is the biggest news in the rubber…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway & West in Close Power Shield Match
West Queanbeyan and Railway 1 had a close and interesting struggle in the opening round of the Power Shield tennis competition on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorcyclist on Drink Charge
A Queanbeyan man was fined £12 at Canberra Court yesterday for being in charge of a motor cycle while under the influence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Town Council To Kerb & Uriarra Road
The Department of [?] Works has advised that it is prepared to make a grant of £200 for kerb and guttering work in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rude Awakening Parked Car 14ft Off Road in Freak Collision
A car that had been parked 14 feet off the roadway for hours, with its driver asleep, was involved in a freak collision early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Money Now Flowing to Shires
As soon as Federal Parliament passed last year the Menzies Government’s law tightening up the to the States of the Gov,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heed Those Signs On Roads-They Mean Something Police Superintendent of Traffic
Throughout the length and breadth of New South Wales, the roads provide one of most important means of contact. They…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Trucks in Unusual Accident
Four motor trucks were involved in an unusual accident in Thorpe Avenue ion Saturday night One truck had become bogged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Improving Approaches to Qbn Railway
Queanbeyan Council at its last meeting authorised the spending of £20 on materials to improve drainage at the railway station entrance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£1,000 Grant for Cooma Road
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has accepted an offer by the Main Roads department for a grant of £1,000 to be used on maintenance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council Approves Experiment in Road Formation
Portions of Atkinson and Mowatt Streets are to be formed up with dual carriageways as an experiment in road formation by the Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weejasper Road in Redex Trial
Drivers and their cars would be tested by the Tumut-Weejasper-Canberra section of this year’s Redex Round-Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →C’cil Proposes Widening Uriarra Road
Queanbeyan Municipal Council is investigating the possibility of resuming land for the widening of Uriarra Road at two points…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complaint about Railway Gates
Braidwood Pastures Protection Board will complain to the Railway Department about the [?]ad service at the Bungendore…
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