Flood Damaged Roads Minister Offers Grant
Mumbulla Shire Council recently expressed concern at the damage to shire roads caused by flood rains and asked Mr. Jack G. Beale M. L. A.,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
122 stories in South Coast's papers · page 6 of 7
Motor Accident
What could have easily been a very serious accident occurred on Sunday night last, on tie Princeâs Highway, opposite Mr. N. E…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Tax on Roads Eden-monaro Allocations
Mr. Allan Frase, M.H.R., has obtained a statement of Commonwealth, monies allocated for road works to local Government authorities in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycle Club
The members of the South Coast Motor Cycles Club, after a lapse of a few weeks, are again active, and will hold a club run to Tathra via Dr. George and Tanja…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Motor Cyclist Wins
In the world’s fastest motor-cycle race, the Ulster Grand Prix, held over the 16½-mile Clady Circuit, near Belfast, Northern Ireland, recently, British motor-cyclists held off a strong Italian challenge. Watched by thousands of spectators around the course, the winner of the 500 c.c. event made a new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Merimbula Aerodrome Site Confirmed Other Sites Surveyed, All Rejected
Months ago, a Merimbula site was chosen by Department of Air as most suitable for a new aerodrome to serve the Bega and Eden districts, but at the request of some public bodies in the area, the matter was re-opened…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Coast Luxury Train Starts Running on Monday, November 28
The new luxury train service linking Nowra and Sydney is to start on Monday, November 28. It will leave Sydney at 9.12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Motor Cycle Accident
Mr. John Phillips, a student farmer from Fiji, at the farm of Mr H. G. Miller, of Foxground, met with a seniors motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidental Death in Road Fatality
Mr. John H. Robbie, Coroner, returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest held into the cause of death of Colin Frank Nichelsen, 29, formerly of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Minister Against Deviation Declares Road Unsuitable
Mr. J. J. Cahill, Minister for Public Works and Local Government following representations by Mr. Jack G. Beale M.L.A., Member…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Jack Discussed with Bombala Men Visitors Use The Road To Get To Meeting
The Bombala-Eden road through the Towamba Valley and over the Big Jack Mountain, was discussed at length when a party of Bombala business men, including the Mayor (Ald. J. G. Mawson), attended the November meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Council Road Grants Inadequate” Says Stale Member
âGrants totalling £4800 and £1580 are to be made available to the Shoalhaven Shire and Gerringong Municipal Councils,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Works Signs Interference an Offence
Local Government ordinance No. 30 has been amended to make it an offence for any person to interfere with road work signs placed on roads by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep Mutilated on Candelo Road Bus and Animals Collide
When Mr. Vic Heffernan and his brother, Mr. Fred Heffernan, were moving some two hundred head of sheep along the Candelo Road, near Kanoona,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Mumbulla Shire Road Grant Inadequate” State Member Not Satisfied
“Grants totalling £3,640 are to be made available to Mumbulla Shire Council by the State Government from Petrol Tax funds,” states Mr. Jack Beale M.L.A., “It amounts’ to about a lorry load of gravel to a mile of Shire road.”…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Will Not Let Big Jack Road Die Slur Oh Shire Engineer Says Imlay President
The Towamba Valley Association appears determined to keep the question of a better Big Jack Mountain highway alive by asking the Imlay Shire Council to give further consideration to die matter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Targett’s Road Not Started Council Gets Ultimatum
For fourteen years Mr. A. D. Targett has both patiently and impatiently sought a road to allow him access to the other roads of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Bega Crowd Waits for Four Hours Menzies Delayed By Cloud, Comes By Road
While a huge crowd of people congregated in Bega to await the arrival of Mr. R. G. Menzies, leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, on Tuesday, the aircraft in which he was travelling from Sydney was groping its way through an impenetrable bank of black cloud…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Road Ahead
Like a great draught of fresh air came the news of a Liberal victory. The murk and gloom of Socialism has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Rail-road Arrangement Max Slater’s Agreement with Railways
Following the visit by Mr. Walsh, Transport Department official to Bega, and his investigations into the transport position between Sydney…
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