Yass Road Bridge Completed Sutton Road Bridge Now Open
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 January 1968 · page 1
The Sutton Road bridge (pictured at left) was completed and opened shortly before Christmas. Work is now proceeding on the surfacing and sealing of the approaches. The bridge was finished…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 January 1968 · page 1
Queanbeyan had an increase of 254 in th registration of hew motor vehicles for 1967 Figures released by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sutton Road Workforce Resumes
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 January 1968 · page 1
Work recommenced yesterday on the reconstruction of the uncompleted ACT portion of the…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 3
The Municipal Council is not expected to take any action at this stage to improve traffic…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 1
The unavailability of suitable quantities of water due to the prevailing dry conditions may curtail bitumen surfacing works programmed for roads in Yarrowlumla Shire this season…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 3
Twenty year-old Queanbeyan motor cyclist, David William Morton, of McQuoid Street,…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1968 · page 6
Alderman David Lowrey has certainly beaten the gun in the race for the State seat of .Monaro…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1968 · page 1
The Department of Main Roads will call tenders for a new high-level concrete bridge over Michelago Creek, between Cooma and Canberra…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 1
The Municipal Council has asked the Department of Main Roads to consider the construction of a concrete…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth’s arm almost severed Airman killed in road smash near Goulburn
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1968 · page 1
A young airman Who resides in Queanbeyan was killed this morning when his car was involved in a head-on collision on Governorâs Hill, four miles north of Goulburn. He was terrace Keith…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Straying stock worry motorists
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1968 · page 6
Flat motorists are complaining about the straying stock on the Queanbeyan. road between the…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 February 1968 · page 5
THIS composite concrete and steel girder bridge over Margaretâs Creek, on the south end…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 February 1968 · page 2
It was an inescapable fact that road users would continue to be maimed and killed in motor vehicle accidents unless they came to realise that road…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 February 1968 · page 1
A Queanbeyan motorist was admitted to hospital suffering lacerations to the face and bruising to…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 2
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has turned down a proposal by the Department of Main Roads for a temporary seal on the only , gravel portion left on the…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 6
In Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions last Friday two motorists were fined $100 each on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 March 1968 · page 1
Several motorists and passengers were injured but none seriously in a number of accidents in the Queanbeyan police district at the weekend. Dennis A. Greacon, of…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 March 1968 · page 3
The Municipal Council has asked the police to investigate a complaint that motor bikes are…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 March 1968 · page 4
The State Government has granted road tax exemptions in the Monaro to help in the fight against drought. Road Co-ordination Tax…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 March 1968 · page 2
Mr. B. D. Ament, who is chairman of the standing committee on drought relief, today announced the provision of subsidies on road transports carrying…
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