Coroner Appeals for Safety Fence on Bungendore Hill Road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 February 1959 · page 3
The A. C. T. Coroner, Mr. J. D. Button, said last week that the responsible authorities should give consideration of the installation of a safety fence on a portion…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 February 1959 · page 1
At its last meeting, the Queanbeyan Municipal Council appointed a committee of three members to meet representatives of the schools in West Queanbeyan in connection with the provision of pedestrian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queanbeyan Railway Tennis Club Notes
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 February 1959 · page 6
On Sunday, last a very successful tournament was held by the club and a pleasing number of entries was received. The men’s division was won…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£977,000 Spent on Main Roads in Monaro in Last Three Years
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1959 · page 1
In the three years ending June 30, 1958, the Main Roads Department’s expenditure on main and developmental roads in the Monaro electorate totalled a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£25 Fine for Local Motorist
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1959 · page 5
In the Canberra Court of Petty Sessions yesterday Mr. F. C. P. F[?]ane, S.M, fined Clive Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£250 Canberra Motor Trial
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 March 1959 · page 1
The Canberra Sporting Car Club plans to conduct a 500 mile open trial, held over two days, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Tennis Jottings
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 March 1959 · page 6
All our big guns mustered to play against Church last Sunday were disappointed to learn that the match had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New School Road Sign to Be Demonstrated
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 March 1959 · page 1
Queanbeyan Municipal Council will arrange a demonstration at a pedestrian crossing in Lowe Street of the school signs at present being used in Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Council To Apply Supplementary C.A.R. Grant To Tharwa Road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 March 1959 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has accepted a supplementary Commonwealth Aid Road Grant for 1958-59 of £3,556 and will apply the money to reconstruction and tar surfacing of their portion of the controversial Tharwa Road, linking the Monaro Highway and Tharwa and Tuggeranong…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1959 · page 1
The Yarrowlumla Shire Council will shortly hold a special meeting to fully consider Shire roads and a plan for doing extensive lengths of black-topping. Cr. T- N, Gorman said he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Strange That Tharwa Road Low Priority,” Says Flanagan
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1959 · page 6
The Liberal candidate for Monaro in the State elections, Mr. Mark Flanagan, this week attacked the Goverment’s attitude in connection with a recent C.A.R…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Tennis Jottings
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1959 · page 8
It is apparent that the members like tournaments. I notice the committee has staged one for Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motorist ‘Surrendered ;’ Fined £25
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1959 · page 4
A drunken driver, who said to the arresting Constable, “I surrender, you are the boss,” was fined £25 for…
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Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1959 · page 2
The tournament concluded on Sunday, March 22, after two days’ enjoyable tennis with thirteen sets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Courtesy Signs Approved
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 March 1959 · page 1
Queanbeyan Municipal Council has granted permission to the Queanbeyan Rotary Club to erect four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stolen Car Found Off Cooma Road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 March 1959 · page 1
A car stolen in Queanbeyan on the night of February 24 and believed to have been used in robberies…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Success Of Railways Bulk Loading
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1959 · page 6
Approximately 430.000 tons of goods of all types were carried by the Railways under the bulk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suspended Sentence for Railway Clerk
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1959 · page 5
A former clerk with the Commissioner for Railways was given a three months’ suspended gaol sentence on a charge of embezzlement at the last sitting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain’s Flat Motorist Fined £25
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1959 · page 5
A young Captain’s Flat man who told a police constable that—someone must have put a “bomb” in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Control That Skid Says Road Safety Committee
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1959 · page 1
A skidding vehicle is a vehicle of of control of the Queanbeyan Rotary Club Road Safety Committee said today “Quick thinking and…
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