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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1947
Page
6
In parliament Mr. C G Robertson MLA urged equitable petrol tax allocations to Local Government for urgent roadwork. He warned heavy traffic and aging roads degrade bitumen and gravel surfaces, blamed federal fund restrictions, and pressed for remittance of petrol tax to states to fund road maintenance.
A Cowra Court session featured a man charged with drunkenness amid testimony by the sergeant. He described a group known as Chifley's carpenters, clarifying they are not true carpenters but bag men who earn carpenter's wages and spend it on drink.
The inter-departmental committee recommends new regular air services in New South Wales including Sydney to Broken Hill and connections to Tamworth Corowa and Grafton among others. Government will fund aerodrome development at approved stopping places, with state concurrence needed before Commonwealth introduction.
An American judge sentenced a woman motorist, a school teacher, to write 200 times the line I must not drive through a traffic light again. The case was mentioned in a brief telephonic note involving the Narromine editor and the Sun newspaper.
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