Katoomba Municipal Council
The last ordinary meeting of the Council for the year 1913 was held on Tuesday evening when there were present the Mayor, Ail. Geo. Davies, Alds. Goyder,…
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Council & local affairs, 1914
79 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 4
Local and General. Council Engineer
Mr. Leathley, who was selected from a large number of applicants for the position of Engineer to the Municipal Council, arrived on Tuesday and took up his…
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ON Saturday last, the President of the Blue Mountains Shire, Cr. J. T. Wall, entertained his fellow Councillors, the office staff and a few friends to…
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Katoomba Municipal Council. Coined on This Coming Campaign
Since the political franchise has been broadened to adult suffrage, there has been much paper and ink used in attempts to educate the electors to a proper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Katoomba Municipal Election. To the Electors.—
Ladies and Gentlemen,—The Triennial Elections of the above Municipality will be held on January 31st, 1914, and for the benefit of Katoomba generally, I…
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A brief meme, covering an exhaustive report by the Electrical which the Town clerk read to Council on Tuesday night, leads to the conclusion that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Katoomba Municipal Council. Triennial Elections Nomination Day. Overture
Mr. C. P. Hendry, Returning Officer, presided at the official declaration of nominations for the triennial election of the Katoomba Municipal Council on…
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The Municipal Elections for 1914 are now over and, so far as Katoomba is concerned, the result has been one of the biggest surprises ever recorded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Katoomba Municipal Elections. Defeat of the Uncrowned King. Goyder, Sands & Craig Rejected
The triennial polling for the election of nine aldermen to the Katoomba Municipal Council took place on Saturday and passed off so far as the way in which it…
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I am not a fluent speaker—an orator you'd say— But oration in a Council is not sunshine of the hay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Work of the Caucus. Ald. John Howie Mayor. Ald. Jenkyn Jenkins Defeated
In silent conclave, the civilian caucu[?]met and decreed with marked unanimity that Messrs. Goyder, Sands and craig had to re[?] from civic life. They retired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Last Conference. Mayor Davies Exit. a Weary Meeting
Punctually at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, all the new bloods of the Council were at their respective posts. The Mayor-elect (Ald. Howie) entered on the tick,…
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With the hands of "the enemy" approaching the solemn hour of midnight and more than one of the "interested rate-payers," who formed the audience,…
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Sir,—The proposal that has been initiated by the Blackheath Progress Association, relative to the creation of a new Shire for that portion of the Mountains…
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At the last meeting of Shire Council, Mr. J. McCormack, who is a regular glutton for work, and never happy unless juggling with about 10 columns of figures,…
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As we went to press last week, the Mountain capital was all excitement over the decision given by the Supreme Court of New South Wales in the appeals by the…
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The initial assembly of the new Council on Tuesday evening was a quiet affair. Beyond an exchange of compliments by Aldermen Davies and James over a…
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Tuesday's special meeting of the Council, which was convened to discuss the proposal of the Katoomba Electric Supply and the municipalising motion by…
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As will be seen from our Council report, Aldermen, Jenkins and James have resigned and an extraordinary election is on the tapis. Simultaneously…
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