Estimated cost of reconstructing the Captain’s Flat road is £170,000
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1962 · page 1
The latest estimated total cost of reconstructing and sealing the road from Queanbeyan to Captain’s Flat is approximately £170,000. This was indicated at the…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1962 · page 4
Yarrowlumla Shire Council decided at its last meeting that it could not, at this stage, out work to reduce the grade on the Jerangle Road, on the outskirts of Captain’s Flat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rifle bullet may have broken train window
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 July 1962 · page 1
Police and Railway officers are investigating a report that a bullet is believed to have broken a window in a carriage of the Canberra-Monaro diesel electric express train yesterday afternoon. This incident follows a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.c.t. Advice on Sutton Road Link
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 July 1962 · page 8
Queanbeyan, Municipal Council has received with “caustic” comment, .advice from the National Capital…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 July 1962 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has confirmed a decision made at its previous meeting to demand a sealed road, as the access to the Wicker slack sub-division…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Locomotive Collides with Fettlers’ Trike 2 Men Killed in Railway Tragedy
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 July 1962 · page 1
Two railway fettlers were killed at about mid-day today when a locomotive collided head-on with a trike in a cutting, about 2½ miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Whisker’s Creels bridge to cost £2,500
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 7
The bridge to be constructed over Whisker’s Creek, on the Queanbeyan - Captain’s Flat road, is estimated to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council’s attitude on Yass Road criticised
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 1
Queanbeyan land agents and landholders in Yass Road, are alarmed at a recent decision to widen the road and fix a new building line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Engineer’s progress report on ’Flat road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 7
In a report to Wednesday’s meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council, the Engineer (Mr. J. M. Firth) revealed progress that had been made on reconstruction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain’s Flat Road Reconstruction Shire not to proceed with proposed deviation
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 8
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has decided not to proceed with plans for a deviation from Burbong to Stoney Creek on the Captain’s Flat road, but to carry out reconstruction on the old route, between the seven mile and the junction with the coast road, about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →“Sunshield” suggested for bridge
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1962 · page 4
The Municipal Engineer (Mr. R. A. Guy) in conjunction with officers of the Department of Main Roads,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Negotiations to have bridge illuminated
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1962 · page 2
President of the Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety Council, of N.S.W., Mr. W. Green, at Friday…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1962 · page 1
A three-year-old girl died and four persons were injured as a result of a series of accidents on Queanbeyan and district roads during the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tender accepted for new bridge at Battle’s Creek
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1962 · page 7
The Department of Main Roads has authorised the Queanbeyan Municipal Council to accept a tender…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Escorts sought for buildings on roads
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1962 · page 1
Queanbeyan Municipal Council .will take up with the police, the [?] of [?] for large buildings being moved by road. This was decided at the last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dangerous driving in Uriarra Road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1962 · page 9
A Canberra motorist who travelled between 58 and 61 m.p.h. in Uriarra Road and overlook 11 vehicles was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Car crashes off railway platform onto branch line
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1962 · page 1
A Cooma man was the driver of a car which ran off the platform at the Queanbeyan Railway Station…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Estimate requested on Sutton Road
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 August 1962 · page 1
Cr. P. H. Hardy, of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council, has asked the Engineer J. M. Firth) to prepare an estimate of cost of reconstructing and sealing the remaining…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire request Railways remove signs
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 September 1962 · page 8
An approach has been male to the Department of Railways, requesting that large signs on its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yass Road reside petition on road plan
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 September 1962 · page 1
Residents and occupies of land on the eastern side of Yass Road have lodged a petition with the Municipal Council, protesting against the decision to fix a building line of…
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