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Blue Mountains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1913

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Katoomba Municipal Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 6

The first meeting of the Council for 1913 was held on Tuesday evening in the Town Hall, and was a full one, there being present the Mayor, Ald Davies, with…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council. Last Meeting of the Old Year

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 10

A meeting of the above Council was held on Friday, 27th ultimo. Cr. W. J. Waterhouse, President, occupied the chair, assisted by Crs. Lindeman, Geggie, Wall…

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Council Mismanagement. To the Editor, "Blue Mountain Echo."

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

Sir,—I enclose herewith a cutting from a newspaper, from which you will observe the Mayor of a country town was caught napping…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council. Opening This New Year. [Held over from last issue.]

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 1

The first meeting in the New Year was held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday last. Present.—Crs. G. J. Waterhouse, Lindeman, Geggie, Collier…

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Special Shire Meeting. Subdivisional Matters

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 6

A special meeting for the purpose of clearing up subdivisional matters left from the last meeting, was held on Wednesday last, when there were present Crs…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 4

There was one short of the required statutory number of Councellors present on Wednesday morning last, and the faces of all present wore glum, when it was…

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Macquarie Electoral Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 1

The above Councill was formed at Lithgow on Saturday evening last; a conference of Loagues in the Macquarie Fodoral Electorate having been convenced by…

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Katoomba Municipal Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 3

The second meeting of the Municipal Council for tho your 1913 was held on Tuesday evening in the Town Hall, after a spell of three weeks. Tho trl-weekly…

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Matters Municipal

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 1

Bobbie Burns penned in the long ago— "O wad some power the glitie gle us, to see oursels as hers see us." The wish still retains all is magnetism. Good…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 7 February 1913 · page 1

A special meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday last, when there were present President W. J. Waterhouse (in the…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 February 1913 · page 3

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Blue Mountain Shire Councillors was held on Wednesday, when there were present Crs. Waterhouse (President, in the…

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Special Meeting of Shire Council. CR. J. T. Wall Elected President

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 February 1913 · page 7

A special meeting of Council was held on Wednesday afternoon last, when there were present Crs. Waterhouse, Linderman, Collier, Geggle, Wall, Riches, Paterson…

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Election of Mayor. Ald. George Davies Re-elected

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 February 1913 · page 8

There was a full Council at the meeting of Tuesday in answer to the usual summons from the Town Clerk for the election of Mayor…

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Local and General. A Shire Councillors Record

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 February 1913 · page 4

Councillor Geggle, or B Riding, Blue Mountains Shire, has put up a record in the number of attendances at Council meetings for a period extending nearly…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 February 1913 · page 1

The ordinary meeting of the Blue Mountains Shire Council was held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday last, when there were present Crs Waterhouse…

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Katoomba Municipal Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 February 1913 · page 8

The usual fortnightly meeting of the above was held in the Municipal Chamber on Tuesday evening, when there were present the Mayor, Ald. G. Davies, Alds…

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Katoomba Municipal Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 3

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Council was hold in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. The Mayor, Ald. Q. Davies, was present, with Alds…

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Call of the Council. Two Absentees

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 2

A Call of the Council was responsible for the following appearing at the Council Chamber, Lawson, on Monday last— Crs. J. T. Wall (President), Walker…

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Blue Mountains Shire Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 March 1913 · page 7

The usual fortnightly meeting of the B. M. S. Council was held on Wednesday when there were present the President, Cr. Wall, assisted by Crs. Lindeman…

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Katoomba Municipal Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 March 1913 · page 3

Being just following the Easter holidays, there was not a full attendance of aldermen at the Council meeting on Tuesday evening, and the business…

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