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Railways, roads & transport, 1958

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De KLM vloog 24 jaar op Indonesie Motorpech tijdens de eerste vlucht

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 3 January 1958 · page 3

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Duck Bridge Helped Big Business Grow

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1958 · page 14

Commencement of work on Duck River Bridge was responsible for a big business institution buying land and becoming established in South…

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'"The Biz'' Motor Section St. Cuthbert's C. of E. East Fairfield

The Biz · Wednesday 8 January 1958 · page 11

Here we are at the beginning of another year. Best wishes for a happy and holy new year to you all…

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Motor monopolies prepare for battle as markets shrink

Tribune · Wednesday 8 January 1958 · page 9

AUSTRALIA'S motor monopolists are shaping their plans for a period of fierce competition…

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Motors-services Road Toll Decline on Holidays

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 10

New South Wales had the biggest decline in road deaths during the Christmas-New Year holiday period. Total number killed had decreased from 27…

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Holiday Road Fatuities Show Encouraging Decline

The Biz · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 18

Australia's Christmas-New Year holiday road deaths over the ten days, December 23. to January 1. had shown an encouraging decline…

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Motorists Slugged

The Biz · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 15

The Federal Newsletter of the Australian Automobile Association included the following:…

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Motor Cyclist Slightly Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 24

Mr. Donald Brown, of 1[?] High Street, Cabramatta, was injured when his motor cycle skidded in loose gravel in Cabramatta Road…

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Black Top Roads

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 January 1958 · page 2

Funds are still available in either grants or loan works to complete certain roads scheduled for black top construction…

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Safety on Roads

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 16

The problem of safety on the roads is one which concerns the whole community, and is one for which nearly everyone has…

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Unhurt in Train Fall

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 4

A 14-year-old girl had an amazing escape from death when she from a speeding express train near Cabramatta…

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Increase in Road Collisions

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 12

Between January 1 and 13 there were 221 collisions on N.S.W. reads--154 more than in the same period last year…

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Road Money "Use General Funds"

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 23

Declaring that funds made available by the N.B.W. Government for roads were "hopelessly insufficient." the Deputy…

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The Friendly Road "The Measuring Stick"

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 11

Over the Christmas period I was talking with Mrs. Black, the converation turned upon family matters, and I inquired about…

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National Roads Plan "We Must Not Delay," Says M.p

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 9

Continuing delays in formulating a national roads plan for Australia were under in Federal Parliament recently…

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Road Deaths Show Encouraging Drop (Statement by (lie Minister for Shipping & Transport, Senator Shane Paltridge)

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 29

There were indications that Australians may have reached' the turning point In the battle to reduce the number of road…

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Council Opposes Use of Railway Land for Commerce

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 23

Cumberland County Council wrote to Holrovd Council with reference to railway land at Merrylands as follows:…

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Car and Motor Cycle Collide Cyclist Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 8

A 20-year-old motor cyclist sustained a compound fracture of the leg and a fractured thigh when his motor cycle collided…

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Motoring Notes Watch for the Danger Signals -- Then Act!

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 16

A perceptible increase in oil consumption and signs of smoking from the exhaust are clear indica[?] re-ringing…

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Geen trams

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 24 January 1958 · page 2

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