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Blue Mountains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1921

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Lawson Progressives Hustling Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 6

At the meeting of the Lawson Progress Association, president McBrair welcomed the good attendance, and also extended the glad hand to…

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Live Labor Leagues Electoral Council Formed

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 5

Labour delegates met over the week at Mount Victoria for the purpose or forming a Bathurst State electoral council, Most Mountain centres were…

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Bid for Progress Rodriguez's Baby Rejected by Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 1

In elaboration of his motion for raising a side roads' loan of £15,000 (as printed elsewhere), Aid. Rodriguez said his object was to overcome…

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Katoomba Electricity Who is Sleeping? Expert or Council?

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 5

Katoombans need hardly be reminded of the ferocity with which the fight on the subject of the municipal supply of electric power and…

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Rival Motor Men Petition and Counter Petition Council Stands on Dig

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 3

"I would be sorry to think Council is not strong enough to control its meter traffic. We have decided by majority on a certain course of…

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Shire Accounts Muddle Clerk and Auditor Carpeted Charges and Cross Charges Drastic Action Forecasted

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 November 1921 · page 1

After the sensational developments of the last Shire Council meeting, in connection with the state of its accounts, it was only to be expected…

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Shire Quarry

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 7

The President, Cr. T. Savage, and Crs. Chapman and Medcalf, as a committee, recently inspected the Chert Quarry, Mt. Victoria, and reported…

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Shire's Busy Session

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 8

Despite the fact that the Shire Council meeting on Wednesday was up to its knees in figures that hadn't been totted up or was stumbling over…

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Ethics of Advertising Aldermen Discuss It Booming Katoomba for £100

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 5

Whether a full-page advertisement, containing photographs and descriptive matter, in a daily newspaper that circulates all over the…

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Interesting Items Shire Road Plant

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 7

Messrs. Noyes Bros. have notified the Shire Council that the road roller and searifler recently ordered is due to arrive at Sydney by the "Port…

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Street Lighting Shire Means Business

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 2

As a result of representations by several Progress Association of the need for improved street lighting in their respective districts, the Shire…

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Shire Clerk's Defence Points in Detail

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 4

Pressure on space in last week's "Echo" necessitated considerable condensation. Among the matter that came under the bine pencil, were…

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Frisky Ford Council's Comedy Car End of Perfect Day

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 5

Could a proportion of the boisterous spirits of the Council's frisky ford be transferred by some mechanical miracle to the "go-slow…

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In Quest of Metal Proposed Municipal Quarry

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 2

Representatives of the Katoomba Council, together with Engineer Kelly and Mr. Tapso, set out on Saturday morning to seek a suitable…

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Shire Council Rates and Charges for Next Year

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 December 1921 · page 6

There was a full master of councillors at Wednesday's meeting of the Shire Council. This was anticipated, owing to definite action being…

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Under Suspension Blue Mountains Shire Clerk Inefficiency the Ground

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 December 1921 · page 1

Some finality has at last been reached in the matter of Shire Clerk Daley. A motion for his suspension was carried at a full meeting of the…

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"Council of Gentlemen" Elect New Mayor Round of Tributes

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 8

Blackheath Municipal Council on Tuesday night held a special meeting for the purpose of electing a new Mayor and fixing the mayoral…

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Councils Confer 'Heath and Shire Squaring Up Accounts

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 1

The spirit of Chrismas-tide descended prematurely upon the Blackheath Council meeting on Tuesday night. There was one, and only one…

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Town Council Water Augmentation Two Short Cuts

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 3

All the aldermen were present at Tuesday's meeting of the Katoomba Council. Welcome News…

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Another Shy Municipal Tourist Bureau "Long-felt Want."

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 2

A full number of moons have waved since the idea of municipal tourist bureau was first mooted for Katoomba. At the birth of the idea it…

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