Shire Roads Grant Considered Inadequate Deputation to Government
At the shire Council meeting on Wednesday, the question of the Government road subsidy was discussed. It was considered that the present…
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Council & local affairs, 1922
142 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 4 of 8
Lomatia Park Council Lends a Hand
On the recommendation of Engineer V. Wikner, the Shire Council has accepted a tender to clear 100ft, by 400ft, of the Lomatia Park for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slowgressives Slugged Aldermen Indignant "Resent Such Tactics."
At a recent meeting of the Blackheath Council, a complaint was received from the local Progressives of the failure of an electric light on one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Blackheath Bolshies" Despotic Ambitions Council and Press
"Give them enough rope und they will hang themsolves" is a latter-day proverb that, surely, can be applied to the Blackheath Ratepayers and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water and Traffic Hurrying Things Up Council Gets Busy
Yesterday Mayor Midgley, Aldrmen Rumble, Sopor and Dash, spent a busy day in the city. They formed a deputation to the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Katoomba Council Things On and Off a Varied Menu
Among the matters not elsewhere reported, the business at Katoomba Council's last meeting included the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bunyan's Baldy Council's Early Bird Lost the Worm
F. Bunyan, carrier, of Leura, got one home on the Shire Council when, at the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday, he was charged by Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Toast, Sirs! "The Council!" Reply by Ald. Booth
"It is little use railing, day in and out, of the deficiencies and inefficiencies of Council, or cursing its sins of commission of omission. Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Dividing Line Council Should Assist in Repairing Grose Street
At Wednesday's meeting of the Shire Council, the engineer submitted a report on Grose-street, Leura. It was to the effect that he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Urban Areas Are They Desirable? Shire Council Doubtful
The question of the advisability or otherwise of establishing Urban Area committees was discussed at the Shire Council meeting on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Rare Document Tribute to Shire
The Shire Council, in common with all such bodies, is more accustomed to receive kicks than ha'pence. When the Shire Clerk read the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Hogs Nightmare Travelling Council Acting
Describing a recent motor trip across the Mountains, on his way to Orange, a correspondent of the "Herald," writing under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Little Lots Minimum Area Council's Quandary
Katoomba Council's position with regard to the minimum area of sub-division blocks is interesting. To settle the matter as to Council's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Satisfied Council Praises the Engineer Blackheath's Roads
At the 'Heath Council meeting on Tuesday, Ald. Huie asked when Leichhardt-street would be attended to. The Mayor (Ald. E. W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stray Stock Council's Powers Questioned an Anomalous Position
An echo of the impounding case, Blackheath Council v. Hannell, which came before the Katoomba Police Court recently, was heard at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Years' Work And No Holidays Council Sticks at Precedent
The "principle of the thing" was the ground upon which certain Katoomba aldermen stood when considering the finance committee's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Might be a Strike Council Takes no Risk Provides for Coal Supply
Strike possibilities do not disturb the serenity of life in the Mountains to anything life the extend they do in most others communities, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire's O.D. Minister Approves £6000
President Savage was able to give the councillors some good news on Wednesday. He submitted in his minute the fact that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Business-like Shire Work well Ahead Councillors Take Spell
The question as to whether the business of the Shire can be as efficiently and expeditiously done with a system of monthly instead of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Odds and Ends Local Politics Katoomba Council's Meeting
With an agenda paper of over a dozen snoots closely typewritten, it looked as If Katoomba Council was in for an all-night sitting last…
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