Council Complications
"MAN proposes and the Great Architect (or some less powerful though nevertheless unseen and unforseen circumstance) disposes." The year 1914…
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Council & local affairs, 1914
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Blue Mountain Shire Council
The usual meeting of the above Council was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday last, when there were present, Cr. J. T. Wall (President), Crs. Mathews,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ouster Application. Katoomba Aldermen in Court
The application by John Francis Tabrett, of Katoomba, Agent, to make absolute a rule nisi for a writ of ouster, calling upon Samuel Bembrick,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extraordinary Election. Municipality of Katoomba To the Ratepayers of Katoomba:—
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— Do you favor the Katoomba Municipal Council forthwith borrowing £20,000 to establish an Electric Lighting and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Katoomba Municipal Council. Extraordinary Election. Six Candidates Nominated
The nominations of candidates for the extraordinary vacancies in the Katoomba Council, caused by the resignations of Aldermen George James and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blue Mountain Shire Council
Cr. Wall presided over a full meeting on Wednesday last. Included in the correspondence was a letter from the Deputy P.M.G., stating…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Matters
Dear Sir,—As one who is interested in the development of Katoomba and district, I could not help feeling, as I listened to ex-Aldermen Goyder and James in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Council
The first meeting of the Katoomba Municipal Council since the issue of the ouster writs was held in the Council Chamber on Tuesday evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Counsel to the Council
Dear Sir,—I wonder if any of our Alder men over take a walk down Vale-street, To Appreciate it fully, they should stroll that way on a dark night and just…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Complications. Further Resignations. Another By-election
When Mr. John F. Tabrett brought the ouster action against the seven sitting members in the Council—(it would have been the nne only two had resigned to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Katoomba Municipal Council. To the Ratepayers.—
Ladies and Gentlemen,—When Mr. Tabrett made his second attack on Council I, in company with Messrs. Davies and White, resigned my seat at the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tabrett Turns the Tables. Ouster Action Successful. Aldermen Anticipate Decision and Resign
The tables were turned neatly in an application that was before Mr. Justice Ferguson, in Chambers, on Wednesday morning for an ouster against three…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Katoomba Municipal Council. Permanent Road Improvements. Important Resolution Carried
The fortnightly meeting of the Katoomba Municipal Council was held on Tuesday evening. There were present the Mayor (Ald. John Howie), Aldermen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melancholy Municipal Muddling
A HINT thrown not by Mr Justice Ferguson in first chapter of the memorable ouster action—John F. Tabrett versus the Katoomba Council—received some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Katoomba Municipal Council
The fortnightly meeting of the Katoomba Municipal Council was held on Tuesday evening. There were present the Mayor (Ald. John Howie), Aldermen H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Katoomba Municipal Council. Nellie's Glen Under Review
The fortnightly meeting of the above Council (the first meeting since the recent declaration of the Poll) was held on Tuesday evening. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electric Light for Katoomba. Council Changes the Illuminant
Considerable public interest was centred in the question of Municipal Lighting, tabled at Tuesday night's Council meeting. As the ratepayers had decided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Winged Municipal Councils
MORE in sorrow than in anger, yet with a heavy head of impatience, "The Echo" thinks it advisable to lend a hand in extending information…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Katoomba Municipal Council
The adjourned meeting of the above, body was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, when there was a full attendance of members, namely, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aldermen Want to Know
At question time on Tuesday evening, Mayor Howie was bombarded with querles:— Ald. Dash asked if the Mayor was…
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