Fatal Motor Accident
Returning home from the Moss Vale Show, on Saturday night last, Mr. Harold Alfred May was driving a motor car, when the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
121 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 7
Interest Burden on State Railways Cost of Concessions and Country Lines (By the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. R. Winsor)
In this article the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. R. Winsor, examines the financial position of the N. S.W. Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Question on Legge’s Road
Mr Henstock; at the Bermagui Urban Committee meeting, on Tuesday night, asked the Shire Engineer (Mr. J. B Trotman),…
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Bega District Ambulance was called to two road accidents in which people were injured on Saturday last, one…
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Members of the team of lifesavers from the Tathra Life Saving Club who travelled to Sydney at the weekend to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensational Accident Lorry and Trailer Leave Road and Descend 300 Yards Into Creek
A sensational accident occurred at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday last. as a result of which a lorry and trailer were completely wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bega Council To Get £1,000 Grant For Programme Of Works On Rural Roads
An application made by the Bega Municipal Council in june last year, for a grant under the terms the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act, to cover work on rural roads in the Municipality, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbits on Roads; Shire Problem Attempt To Have Farmers Made Responsible
A Motion “that landowners on each side of a road be made responsible for the eradication of noxious animals, as far as the centre of the road fronting, their properties,” intended for inclusion in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mumbulla Programme For Road Grants Allocation To Shire For Extensive Repairs
Mumbulla Shire Council will submit a programme of works to be done under the provisions of the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act, during the 1953/54 period, totalling £9,672, compared with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bega-bermagui Road Deplored Cr. Jones Asks For More Work On Bad Section
Cr. R. M. Jones made some trenchant comments on the state of the Bega-Bermagui Road in The Murrah area, at last meeting of Mumbufla Shire Council, deploring the state of the surface, which he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Over Bridge Easter Holiday Accident
During the heavy Easter holiday traffic on the Princeâs Highway, way, during which thousands of cars passed thorough Berry in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advance Party in Camp R.A.E. Unit To Train In Bega District
The advance party of the 55th Workshops and Park Squadron, R.A.E., arrived at the Bega Showground, ground, on Wednesday , to prepare the ground for the first annual camp of the unit in thisw part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclist Took Erratic Course found Guilty Of Driving Under The Influence
When Aubrey Maxwell Thomas, 23, of Bega, rode his motor cycle an sidecar outfit in Bega, on the afternoon of January 31 this year, he was the cause of much interest; to the police anyway, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At It Again ! Nowra and Pyree Football Clubs Are Having Trouble Over Players From Aerodrome
During last football season, players from Nowra, Pyree and the Naval Air Station played together as âNowra.â But this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist’s Lucky Escape Suspended Dangerously Over Creek
The Broughton Mill Creek Bridge was the scene of yet another narrow escapeâwe told of two over the Easter holidaysâ…
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When Graham Clifford, of the Albatross, Nowra, was returning home on Sunday night riding a motor cycle, he collided with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Higher Road Levels Favoured Conference Rejects Bridge At Buckajo
The need to raise the level of the district’s roads that are susceptible to flooding rather than build a bridge across the river at Buckajo was the general opinion among the representatives at a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Accidents Statistics Far South Coast Has Pleasing Record
Two people were killed and 136 injured as a result of 221 accidents on the roads in the Monaro-South Coast Region during 1952. These figures have been made available by the N.S.W…
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Judge O’Sullrvan declined to make a decision on an appeal lodged by a Bega truck driver the Quarter Sessions,, last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bridge at Broughton Village Repairs Worrying Gerringong Council
The bridge on the old main road at Broughton Village is causing concern to the Gerringong Council, but perhaps more…
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