The Fires! Council Pays Tribute to the Workers
Consideration was given by Katoomba Council, on Tuesday, to the question of requesting the Board of Fire Commissioners to appoint an…
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Council & local affairs, 1923
158 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 8
Shire Affairs. Strenuous Day's Work Some Incidentals
IF strenuous work goes for anything, B.M. Shire Council started the new year well. Prefacing its first ordinary general meeting with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council's Carting Tenders to be Called Question of Demurrage
At Katoomba Council mooting, Aid. O. James presented a motion pursuant' to notice, that tenders be called for carting material received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lawson Gardens Trust that Failed Council to Resume Control
In June last, at the request of the Lawson Progress Association, the control of Lawson's parks und gardens ,was invested in a local…
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Cr. Percy Wilson, who occupies the presidential chair of the Blue Mountains Shire Council, is a mountaineer of many years standing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blackheath Council
It used to bo said of Ald. Henry Justice Collier, Mayor of Black heath, that he had lived three years in every town in Ireland. That was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Week Off on Full Pay Council's Outdoor Staff
Katoomba Council on Tuesday resuscitated Ald. Birney's motion re annual holidays for te outside staff. He had suggested that permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Work, No Fuss Efficient Health Officer Congratulated by Council
As it was truly rumarked at Tuesday's Council meeting, 99 per cent, of the ratepayers and public of Katoomba are ignorant of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Council Behind It
The suggestion of the Chamber of Commerce to call a conference of Mountain governing bodies to discuss the maintenance of the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boost Your Town Advice to Aldermen Favorable Impression
Sandwiched in between the open meeting of the 'Heath Council and the retirement into committee, on Tuesday night, a pleasant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Silver Lining Mayor's Optimistic Reply Dispels Diggers' Doubts
A somewhat pessimistic note was struck ut the Katoomba diggers' meeting on Monday, whon Com. M. Melvin referred to the official opening of the Memorial Hall. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blackheath Baths Petition Before Council
With the existing long spell of dry, hot weather, public spirit at Biackheath has been re-awakened to the necessity for a swimming bath,…
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The following Horns were dealt with at Katoomba Council's last meeting:— Pay Instead of Play…
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Among Shire matters that claimed attention at Wednesday's meeting was a motion by Cr. MacBrair for the establishment of a garbage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Heath Council Chambers
As a ratepayer I would ask indulgence for the following:—The Blackheath Council is in treaty for a weatherboard residence in a back…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Speeding It Up Council's New Scheme to Obviate Delays
Business that should take a fortnight to finalise, but which has often hung out six weeks or more, was Ald. Kelly's reason for submitting at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor 'Bus Traffic Solving the Problem Council Meets Proprietors
Katoomba Council has arrived at what appears to be the only sensible and workable scheme possible in present circumstances for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pull Devil, Pull Baker Lawson's Tug-o'-War Council As Referee
A petition signed by about forty Lawsonians was received at Shire Council meeting on Tuesday. Later in the day Cr. MacBrair introduced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Council Chambers For and Agin It Heathites at Variance
Blackheath Council is being subjected to criticism by ratepayers as to its wisdom determined upon the purchase of a weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rounded Up Alderman Breaks Out Mayor Cracks Whip
Ald. Birney kicked over tho traces on Tuesday last. The mayor squelched the outbreak. Beyond wasting the time of the aldermen and the…
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