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Blue Mountains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1921

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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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Blackheath's Mayor Ald. E. W. Sheppard Sport and Citizen

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 3

Ernest William Sheppard, Mayor-elect for the Municipality of Blackheath, is an Englishman, chock full of Australian ideas and ideals. He…

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Council Caucus Condemned by Citizens

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 3

Blackheath Council, in common with many of its kind, has lately been imposing too much on its statutory privilege of resolving into…

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Doing Things Reducing the O.D. Energetic Shire President

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 1

Whatever faults Cr. Savage, president of the B.M. Shire, may possess, he is one of those men who do things, and they are the men who…

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Settlement in Sight Long-disputed Accounts SHIRE V. HEATH

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 2

The difficulties which have to be overcome, and which are not always apparent, when a township aspires to breaking away from its existing…

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Getting to Tin Tacks Shire Administration President Takes a Stand

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 1

It is obvious that until the Shire Clerk incident is settled definitely, the atmosphere in Shire politics will remian perturbed and the wheels of…

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Xmas Season A Peaceful Meeting New Mayor's Debut

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 2

Tuesday night's regular meeting of the Blackheath Council was as quiet as a Quaker's wake. It was Ald. Sheppard's first…

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Changing Chairs Remarks Personal and Otherwise Ex-mayor's Vision

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 3

Ald. H. A. Midgley now occupies for the second time what was described at Tuesday's meeting as the "high and honorable position of…

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Frisky Ford Costs Council Cash

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 5

It will no doubt be remembered that a few weeks back, Katoomba Council's Ford ran amok on the occasion of the aldermanic visit of…

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Gottwald Again Prosecuted by Council Fined for Faulty Work

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 5

John Gottwald, Council's garbage contractor, is a well-knwn character around town. Council is not in love with John as a contractor, and John…

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Shire Sanitary Depot

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 December 1921 · page 3

Dear Sir,—Judged by reports, that scientific side-stepper, Cr. J.T. Wall, is, apparently, far from being satisfied with the attitude or action of…

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Shire Sensation. Explanation Demanded

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 December 1921 · page 1

At the Xmas meeting of the Shire Council, the valuer, Mr. Edwin Salter, dropped a bomb by presenting the following report on the valuation of…

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Katoomba Council. Formal Business

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 December 1921 · page 1

Matters that came before the Katoomba Council at its last meeting of the year were mostly formal. There was a full attendance of…

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