Cootamundra Council to Acquire 200 ACRES Extension on Gundagai Road
The Cootamundra Municipal Council decided at its meeting on Monday night to acquire 200 acres of a Gundagai road…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Radio on U.k. Railways
FOR THE FIRST TIME, control of railway freight traffic by radio was demonstrated recently at the marshalling yard at Whitemoor (Cambridgeshire) in the eastern region of British railways…
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From Monday last, May 9, NRMA emergency road service in the Sydney metropolitan area will be carried out by radio telephone. A two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire Will Eradicate Rabbits From Roads
The Gundagai Shire Council will endeavour, as far a possible, to rid roads in the Shire from rabbits, especially near places where the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rural Hospitals Roads, Phones Improvements Urged
Better roads improved hospital facilities, and more telephones in rural districts (and smaller charges for connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Train to Berlin After Blockade
FRANKFURT, Wednesday (A.A.F.): Nearly 100 Allied correspondents and photographers and Anglo-American officials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Around the Shire Roads Many Requests From Ratepayers
Many requests for road maintenance work were received at last Tuesday’s meeting of the Gundagai Shire Council. Among them were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mountain Road to Highway Ministers Interested in Scheme
The minister for Tourist Activities and Immigration (Hon. C. H. Matthews) has written the member for Albury (Mr. D…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Purchase of Road Making EQUlPMENT Shire Engineer Gives Facts and Figures to Council
Some time was spent by the Gundagai Shire Councillors at their meeting last Tuesday, discussing the purchase of road making plant and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Roads Improving on the Irrigation Area
During the run out to inspect sucker ing poplar trees hear Gogeldrie on the back Whitton: road last week, members of the Works Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bad Roads Tempt Cyclists on to Footpaths
The very bad state of some of the roads in the town of Leeton have made it a common practice on the part of cyclists to ride along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Passenger Train Leaves Berlin Cheered by Crowds
BERLIN, Friday — Cheering Germans and a brass band greeted the arrival at Helmdstedt yesterday of the first train out of…
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Relief Shunter R. K. McDougall, who was recently appointed to Narrandera from Finley, has now received word of his promotion to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miniature Farm Motor-Truck
THOUGH NOT in any way a tractor for arm work, the Wrigley Wessex Motor Truck is a handy vehicle for small loads and is quite capable of running over rough ground. This picture shows the truck being driven across a ploughed field…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kyeamba Shire's Road Applications Rejected by Dept
Applications made by the Kyeamba Shire Council to the Department of Main Roads for the reclassification of two main roads as trunk roads and of one road as a main road, have been refused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mitchell Shire Wants Coolamon—the Rock Road Reclassified
The trunk road from Coolamon to The Rode via Milwood and Mundowey, will be recommended for classification as a main road by the Department of Main Roads…
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PARKES, Sunday. John Amstrong McCauley, 80, of Tundle, was killed instantly last night when a shunting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gundagai Shire Will Eradicate Rabbits From Roads
The Gundagai Shire Council will endeavor, as far as possible, to rid roads in the Shire from rabbits, especially near places…
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SYDNEY, Monday — Alarmed at the increasing number of motor cyclie accidents, the Minister for Transport, Mr. Sheahan,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman's Headless Body Found on Railway Line
SYDNEY, Monday — The headless body of a young married woman, the mother of four children, was found on a railway…
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