March 1972, Volume 37, No. 3
1 hall- I 0 JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAIN ROADS, NEW SOUTH WALES MARCH, 1972 PRICE Thirty Cents VOLUME 37 NUMBER 3 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Issued quarterly by the One Dollar Twenty Cents Commissioner for Main Roads Post Free R. J. S. Thomas Editors may use information “Pitch” is one of those fascinating, yet Additional copies of this Journal contained in this Journal, frustrating, words which are such a delight to etymologists and so confusing to migrants may be obiained from unless specially indicated trying to learn the English language. It has Department of Main Roads to the contrary, a wide range of meanings relating to such subjects as camping, cricket, golf, falconry, 309 Castlereagh Street provided the exact reference music, movement, shape a;d distance. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia thereto is quoted Pitch also refers to a black, tenacious, resinous substance” which is mentioned as far back a$ the Old Testament stories of Noah and Moses. Noah’s reliable ark was caulked “within and without with pitch” 66 STOCKTON BRIDGE-CONSTRUCTION COMPLETED (Genesis 6; 14), while Moses’ mother, before setting him adrift amid the bullrushes, 69 NEW WARNING SIGNS daubed his cradle with pitch (Exodus 2; 3). 69 REMOVAL OF LITTER FROM ROADS From these notable, nautical beginnings, pitch has progressed through a variety of 70 MODERN AlDS TO ROAD LOCATION forms and uses. It is less than 90 years since tar was first introduced to Sydney’s 76 NEW BRIDGE ON BRUXNER HIGHWAY AT TI-TREE CREEK rough macadam roads. Thus began, for road-builders, the long task of eliminating 78 QUEEN ELlZABETH DRIVE, MT KEIRA-Tourist Road No.
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