Roads, Our Lifeline
Bega, and its surrounding territory, is so dependent on its arterial roads that any inspiration to improve their surfaces,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Bega Good Road League Formed Sponsorship From Chamber of Commerce
The Monaro Highway, through it has had some improvements in the past forty years, there is still the first sixteen miles from Bega that is in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Sum Derived From Petrol Tax Only One Third Used On Nation’s Roads
Since the taxing of petrol started, the Australian motorist has paid £164,000,000 in petrol taxation; only a third of this amount has been used for the development and maintenance of roads, stated Mr. H. I. Johnson, public relations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Bega River Bridge Considered Engineer Explores Possibilities
Mr. J. B. Trotman, Mumbulla Shire Engineer, at the request of the Mumbulla Shire Council, has explored the possibilities of having a bridge constructed across the Bega River at its mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open Road Wanted Suggestion to Solve Transport Troubles
It is an open road for the free movement of road traffic that I want, and if it hadn’t been for the co-ordinated service with Hayes and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mumbulla Roads Graded Down to Clay Work Needs Machinery Says Councillor
Council must replace gravel on our shire roads, as too many of them have been graded down to clay. This very urgent work cannot be done by pick and shovel, therefore we must purchase machinery that will do the work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Special Train on Monday for Royal Show
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the running of a special train to Sydney on Monday morning next for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Straight Talk Shire Councillors Discuss Jervis Bay Road
âIt simply had to come, and I am glad of the straight talk,â was the comment of the President of the Shoalhaven Shire, Cr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Imlay Will Investigate Bridge Proposal
Murabulla Shire Council has asked Imlay Shire to co-operate in paying £200 for preliminary expenses to test the foundation possibilities for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →College Road
The College Road, which was the subject of a lengthy discussion at the previous meeting, was again referred to by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Money For Country Roads More Money Urge of Our Federal Member
Addressing the annual meeting of Bega Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Allan Fraser. MHR, said that as a country Member,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quaama Worried About Roads Agricultural Bureau to Move
Members of the Quaama Agricultural Bureau, at their April meeting, expressed displeasure at the state of the roads in their end of the Mumbulla…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bega Starts Protest to Railways Wants Road Tax Abolished
The Bega Co-operative Society has been active m sending out invitations to various district bodies to co-operate in a district-wide protest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Constant Attention Is Necessary For Roads” “Money Wasted In Needless Repairs”
Roads in this shire are left without adequate maintenance after they have been repaired instead of receiving the constant attention they should have to keep them in a trafficable condition…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Killed On Tathra Road Car Driver On Manslaughter Charge
A man, Beresford Thomas Wilson, 29, commercial traveller, of Balgowlah Rd., Manly, was thrown from a car which failed to negotiate a bend on the Tathra Road in the early hours of Sunday mornings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle Accident
A woman riding a motor cycle with sidecar and woman passenger collided with & car on the Prince’s Highway about three miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →College Road Engineer’s Report
The College Road was again repaired on by the Engineer, Mr. Dee, at the Shoalhaven Shire council meeting yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Money for Shire Roads State Member's Request to Minister
âA larger allocation of petrol tax funds should be made the Shoalhaven Shire Council, in view of the special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bega-bateman's Bay Road Improvements Long Stretches Being Sealed
The road to Sydney along the Prince's Highway between Bega and Bateman's Bay will not be so hard on the nerves and transport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Roads, Safer Travel
The demand for immediate consideration of emergency treatment of the Monaro High way will be welcomed every…
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