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Blue Mountains · Council & local affairs
155 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 4 of 8
At a recent council meeting severe criticism was levelled at the method being employed to repair the Bathurst Road, with particular reference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Satisfactory as has been the B.M. Shire's electricity trading undertaking so far, it must be remembered that council has many…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At A special meeting of the B.M. Shire Council held last week, consideration was given to a proposal to instal a modern system of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following notification, inter alia, from the Secretary of the Main Roads Board of N.S.W., was received at last meeting of the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relations between the Councils of Katoomba and the Blue Mountains Shire are anything but cordial just at present. The main bones of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →About two month's ago, the question arose at a special meeting of the Shire Council, as to the advisability of installing an electric…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Presbyterian Hall at Leura was filled with a representative gathering on MOnday night, to discuss the question of incorporating the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alderman Peter Board, whose appointment by proclamation of the Governor has created a big stir in the district, took his seat at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →don't know what class of work is proposed, and we wish to got the details. The Engineer explained that he proposed to work to the specification…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At Tuesday's meeting of Katoomba council, the Mayor announced that 21 tenders had been received for the supply of the additional electric plant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Katoomba Council met on Tuesday afternoon, Aid Birney being the only absentee. Subsidies, being the equivalents of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Tuesday meeting of Katoomba Council, the following recommendation came forward from the works committee:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although the Shire Council meeting opening on Wednesday with a convivial handing round of ten and biscuits, there was an ominous cloud…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recently, as reported in "The Echo," Mayor McBride interviewed the railway authorities concerning the furnishing of electrical power for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the last meeting of Kattomba council, the following item appeared in the report of the Works committee, and was adopted without…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When Katoomba Council met on Tuesday afternoon, the Mayor, Ald. McBride, rose and staled that he desired to move a resolution in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some three or four weeks ago, a public meeting was held at Leura, to consider the question of initiating steps for the incorporation of Leura…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the monthly meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce, on Monday night, the Secretary, Mr. A. Marx, commented on the need for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a recent issue of "The Echo" we outlined a bold scheme of town improvement formulated by Dr. Allan. President of Katoomba Golf Club…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At last Shire Council meeting, Engineer Swindlehurst reported that the output of chert at the Council's Mount Victoria quarry was in every…
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