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Daily Sentinel-Review, 27 Mar 1928, p. 1, column 7     Aldermen Sutherland and Thomson question fairness of Board of Works plan - Chairman contends that crushed stone and oil as cheap in long run as use of gravel

Daily Sentinel-Review, 26 Apr 1929, p. 7, column 1     Road superintendent states all Oxford county roads are passable with a motor car; occasional poor sections will be encountered

Daily Sentinel-Review, 19 Mar 1929, p. 1, column 4     Higher appropriation to be asked for this year, intimates Warden Silcox

Daily Sentinel-Review, 21 Mar 1929, p. 1, column 5     Must trim estimates by $50,000 to keep taxes down to 1928 level; Embro reeve claims many farmers in bad financial condition

Daily Sentinel-Review, 23 Mar 1929, p. 1, column 7     County council manages to keep figures low enough to hold tax rate down; 3 stretches of paving included in estimates for Embro, Tavistock and Tillsonburg

Daily Sentinel-Review, 7 Dec 1929, p. 1, column 6     Chairman of County Roads Committee believes it would be cheaper; warden disagrees

Daily Sentinel-Review, 27 Mar 1930, p. 1, column 7     Report of roads committee adopted despite opposition to machinery purchase clause

Daily Sentinel-Review, 15 Mar 1928, p. 1, column 2     Andrew Pattullo, MPP for N Oxford - good account of early testing for "good roads"

Daily Sentinel-Review, 11 Apr 1929, p. 1, column 7     Transcontinental highway traffic to come through city with new routing; council and board of trade agreeable to city membership in association

Daily Sentinel-Review, 12 Apr 1929, p. 1, column 3     Rea opposed to city linking up with Great Lakes International Highways Association; believes present tourist traffic on No. 2 Highway heavy enough without drawing more

Daily Sentinel-Review, 18 Sep 1928, p. 1, column 3     Provincial government rules that county roads must be 66 ft. between fences

Daily Sentinel-Review, 23 Jan 1929, p. 1, column 1     No part of the County's responsibility interests the public more than maintenance of highways, declares new warden

Daily Sentinel-Review, 19 Jul 1928, p. 1, column 1     66 ft. required between fences; most of Oxford's roads fall from 1-6 ft. short of requirement; big problem faces Road and Bridge Committee of County Council

Daily Sentinel-Review, 21 Mar 1929, p. 1, column 3     Cameron asks county council to annul agreement for road costs in the village

Daily Sentinel-Review, 21 Mar 1929, p. 1, column 7     Meathrell, provincial dept. engineer, takes over from Forbes; dept. not satisfied with Oxford roads system and threatened to withhold grants

Daily Sentinel-Review, 23 Mar 1929, p. 1, column 1     Submit application changes to present county roads system to Provincial Advistory Board

Daily Sentinel-Review, 21 Nov 1929, p. 1, column 3     Warden demonstrates to reporter that Huron St. is in as bad a state of repair as any county road

Daily Sentinel-Review, 28 Nov 1929, p. 1, column 2     Ure claims early surveying equipment led to inaccuracies; 1833 survey of E Oxford most inaccurate; Blenheim surveyed 1798, Blandford 1826, Zorras 1820; some jogs due to natural obstructions

Daily Sentinel-Review, 24 Jan 1930, p. 1, column 4     City Engineer Ure attended largest convention of kind ever held on continent in Atlantic City

Daily Sentinel-Review, 18 Mar 1930, p. 1, column 5     Road connecting Ingersoll and Port Burwell had planks laid c.1850