Council seeks approval of amended main roads programme
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 February 1964 · page 1
Queanbeyan Municipal Council has submitted an amended five year priority programme for main roads within the Municipality, to the Department of Main Roads for approval…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 February 1964 · page 1
At a conference of representatives from interested bodies at Yass on Friday, it was unanimously agreed to support present investigations proceeding into the proposed Tumut-Canberra road link…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Bitumen on ’Flat Road cr. Kerr happy with increased tempo on project
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 February 1964 · page 1
Cr. T. P. Kerr, who strongly criticised progress on the Captain’s Flat road at the January meeting, swallowed his pride at the last meeting and complimented the engineer…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 February 1964 · page 1
No persons were injured and only minor damage caused on Saturday when a utility and motor cycle…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1964 · page 1
The P.M.G. Department proposes to open a non-official Post Office in Donald Road, Queanbeyan, on April 1. Advice of this has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Graded Following Petition
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1964 · page 7
Yarrowlumla Shire has carried out grading and maintenance on the Bungendore - Goulburn road…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1964 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council is gravelling two miles of the Sutton Road, from the end of the existing tar…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1964 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council hopes to have about 17 miles of the Captain’s Flat Road reconstructed and bitumen sealed before the winter. If the programme planned is achieved, it will provide a tarred road from…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1964 · page 1
Th N.S.W. Commissioner for Railways, Mr. N. McCusker, when he visited Queanbeyan yesterday, said he hoped arrangements could be finalised soon to take over the section…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 March 1964 · page 1
Councillors of the Yarrowlumla Shire are to make an inspection of the alternate routes for the proposed…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 March 1964 · page 2
A young man who had crossed the railway line near Queanbeyan Railway Station on many occasions…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1964 · page 3
A proposal by the Department of Main Roads and the Municipal council to Tharwa Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prize valued at over £200 Rotary Club’s Road Safety Competition Still Open
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1964 · page 3
The committee in charge of the Queanbeyan Rotary Club’s big road safety competition, for a complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, has decided to extend the closing…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1964 · page 9
The Railways will run 533 trains, including 184 “specials” between March 26 and March 30 to cater…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1964 · page 1
ROAD REPAIRS ARE NO LONGER IMPEDING traffic on the Autobahn, when the new “steel flat road” will be used, which has now developed in the German Federal Republic. The model of this road, shown in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work starts on Gilmore Road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1964 · page 1
Work has commenced on the reconstruction of portion of Gilmore Road, adjacent to Tharwa Road,…
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Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1964 · page 1
Two special road construction jobs which the Yarrowlumla Shire may supervise for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quiet Easter week - end despite heavy holiday traffic Two Major Accidents on District Roads
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 March 1964 · page 1
Despite a record volume of Easier holiday tourist traffic, Queanbeyan police report a relatively quiet period on roads within their patrol area. Two major accidents occurred near Queanbeyan in areas…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1964 · page 1
Queanbeyan branch Of the Road Safety Council is to make suggestions to the Municipal Council and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Councillors inspect alternate routes Government approach on Tumut road link
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1964 · page 1
In an effort to speed-up. some finality on the proposed Tumut Canberra road link, the Tumut and Yarrowlumla Shire Councils will make a further approach to the Commonwealth Government. This was decided at a brief…
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