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Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Road Safety Education For Children

The Bega District News · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 2

The continued education of schoolchildren towards learning safe traffic habits was discussed by the Bega Branch of die Read Safety Council, on Wednesday night, and action will…

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Road Accidents Increase During 1953 In Monaro-Sth. Coast

The Bega District News · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 6

The number of road accidents increased in all of Site municipalities and shires in the Monaro-South Coast region during 1958, Mill rise also in, the number of fatal accidents,…

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Collision On Tanja Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

When an old model motor car and a P.M.G. was collided almost bead-on, about eight miles from Bega on the Tanja Road…

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Canberra Road To be Improved

The Bega District News · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 2

[?] Beavis, Liberal candidate for Eden-Monaro, said yesterday that further to representations to the Minister for Works,…

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Money Available For The Big Jack Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 1

The Department of Public Works has made the [?] of £1,[?] available for the Big Jack [?] road, which was…

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Bitumen For Cobargo Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 1

The Department of Main Roads has advised' the Mumbnll Shire Council that funds are available to provide for…

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Too Many Gates On Road At A’dale-G’dale

The Bega District News · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 1

An inspection of the Angle-dale-Greendale Road area has revealed that there are nine gates within four miles on this…

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N. Service Exemption Refused Young Men To Train As Non-combatants

The Bega District News · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

Two young men who applied in the Special Court, in Bega, on Tuesday for registration as conscientious objectors to rendering service under the National Service Act, had their…

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Rain Will Mean Better Surface To Gravel Roads

The Bega District News · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 4

Some Improvement in the surfaces of the roads in the district should be possible now, for the engineers charged with their…

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Landowners To Remove Gates On A’dale, Greendale Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 8

Landowners who have gates across the Angledale-Greendale Road will be asked to remove them as they constitute an obstruction which is contrary to the law, following a decision of the Mumbulla Shire Council last Monday, as reported in last Tuesday’s issue…

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G’dale Bridge May Be Giving Away

The Bega District News · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 2

Fears that the Greendale bridge, across the Brogo River, might be giving away, were voiced by Cr. N. Pearce at the last meeting of the Mumbulla shire Council, and he told…

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Drink Causes Most Accidents Police Opinion Given On State Road Toll

The Bega District News · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 1

“Police are of the opinion that drink is one of the greatest causes of accidents and deaths [?]n the road, and it is intended forthwith to give his aspect of traffic very definite attention by…

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Early Question On Aerodrome

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

Mr. Allan Fraser, M. H. R., Federal Member for Eden-Monaro, has not delayed in seeking information on the…

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Minister Sends Reply On Bridge Failure

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 4

Mr. Ern Wetherell, Minister for Transport, who has been asked a number of questions on the collapse of the Tuross River Bridge, on April 3, has informed Mr. Jack G. Beale,…

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Tour Of Rugged Road Route

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 5

A party of Monaro Shire Councillors and knowledgeable bushmen, intended travelling overland from Cooma to the edge…

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T’wmba Bridge in Disrepair

The Bega District News · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

A request by the Towamba Branch of the Australian Primary Producers’ Union that an inspection be made of the bridge…

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Imlay Discusses New Bridge For Kanoona

The Bega District News · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

“This Council will have to face up to the construction of a new bridge at Kanoona, on the Bega-Candelo Road, within five to seven years,” the Imlay Shire Engineer (Mr. E. W…

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Advance Of £20,000 For Tathra Bridge

The Bega District News · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

It would appear that the bridge to replace the ferry service across the mouth of the Bega River, at Tathra, has passed from the stage of promised works to something like a reality,…

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Local Govt. Gets Money For Roads

The Bega District News · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 6

Cr. Leo Barry, President of the Shires Association of N.S.W., announces tat under the new Roads Policy of the…

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No Chance for Coast Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 1

The proposals painstakingly advanced by civic leaders to the N.S.W. Government for. a State Highway from Canberra to the Coast had no more impact upon it than waves upon…

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