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Railways, roads & transport, 1955

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No Road Fatalities During Holidays

The Bega District News · Friday 7 January 1955 · page 1

There was not one fatality, nor an injury, On the roads in the Bega Police Sub-district during the Christmas-New Year holiday period, reports the officer-in-charge, Inspector…

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Motorist’s Two Mistakes

The Bega District News · Tuesday 11 January 1955 · page 1

Most motorists, are satisfied with one brush with the arm of the law, but when a second encounter is experienced, on the…

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New Brogo Road Inspection

The Bega District News · Friday 14 January 1955 · page 1

The whole of the MumbuIIa Shire Council intends making an inspection of the eastern side of the Brogo River, including the…

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Bega Man Invited To Meet Road Authority

The Bega District News · Friday 21 January 1955 · page 11

At the invitation of the Australian Road Federation, Mr. W. H. Balmain is flying to Sydney today to attend the official…

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Dust On Roads In Shire Reported

The Bega District News · Tuesday 25 January 1955 · page 1

The sever dust condiuous existing on cetain roads in the vicinity of tourist resorts in the Imlay Shire vicinity reported on by the Shire Engineer (Mr. E. W. Simmonds) last Friday…

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Better Water On Tathra Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 25 January 1955 · page 9

An improved water supply to the Howard Sub-division on the Tathra Road will be provided in the course of a programme of…

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Money Sought For Roads

The Bega District News · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 8

The N. S. W- Government was strongly urged yesterday to gram to country councils much greater sums for maintenance of rural…

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Visit To New Road

The Bega District News · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 1

Having many problems placed before it from this particular area, the Mumbulla Shire Council will, with its officers, make a visit to…

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Kiddies Must Wait on Road Cobargo School Bus Overcrowded

The Bega District News · Friday 11 February 1955 · page 1

Those people of the Brogo district who send their children to school in Bega are angered the shortage of accommodation on the subsided school bus service which has not been…

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More Motorists Chastised in Bega Court

The Bega District News · Tuesday 15 February 1955 · page 1

There was another formidable list of traffic cases before Mr. A. O. Chick, S. M., in the Bega Court of patty Sessions last Wednesday, and the magistrate, in imposing Some of the penalties, gave warning to the defendants…

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Road Safety Quizzes

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 February 1955 · page 1

The Bega Branch of the N. S. W. Road Safety Council is making arrangements to hold a series oft' four radio quizz sessions between…

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New Road Sought for New Bega Hospital

The Bega District News · Tuesday 15 March 1955 · page 1

So well has the construction of the new Bega District Hospital progressed, that the Board of Directors has decided to ask…

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New Diesel Train

The Bega District News · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 1

The Deputy Commissioner for Railways (Mr. N. Mc-Cusker) has informed the Member for Monaro (Mr. J…

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Special Cattle Train for District Stock

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 March 1955 · page 1

A special cattle train has been arranged to transport a mob of 1,200 head of district stock from Nimmitabel to Deniliquin in the Riverina area, and the stock started the first section…

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D.M.R. Drivers Shun Highway Prefer Better Going on Buckajo Road

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 March 1955 · page 1

The Mumbulla Shire Council will point out to the Department of Main Roads that its own heavy vehicles use the alternative Buckajo Road route to Numbugga instead of the rough…

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Railway Water Protest

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 March 1955 · page 2

For some years now the provision of water at railway stock yards has been a sore point with the Eden Pastures Protection…

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Imlay Roads Programme

The Bega District News · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 6

A Commonwealth Aid Roads programme of works totalling £15,230 was adopted by the Imlay Shire Council for the…

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Goulburn A.L.P. Conference’s Action on Roads

The Bega District News · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 7

The Regional Conference of the Australian Labor Party, at Goulburn, recently, decided that the Federal Government should be asked to double the Federal Aid Road…

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Hope for Road to Wallagoot

The Bega District News · Friday 1 April 1955 · page 2

Although he will not allow the heavy grader to cross two small bridges in the area, the Imlay Shire Engineer (Mr. E…

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Road Junction Question

The Bega District News · Tuesday 5 April 1955 · page 1

The vexed question of the junction of Swan Street with the Prince’s Highway was raised again by Aid. Hanson at…

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