Significance

Yields information about a provision of treated wooden pine sleepers to tramways in Ballarat.

Physical description

Newspaper clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, dated 18-9-53 regarding treated softwood sleepers, 100 installed in 1936 from Ballarat Water Commission, creosote treatment CSIRO. Titled "Still good after Seventeen Years"



Record updated and images added 20/8/2013.

Inscriptions & markings

Pencil date of "18-9-53"