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Blue Mountains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1926

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The Council Considers Recission Notice. Ald. Lamont Attacks Ald. Hendry Position as you Were (Continued from Page One)

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 10

to placing the lighting of the Mountains at the mercy of this generator Ald. McBride added that he joined issue with Ald. Board, who had jibed…

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Shire Engineer III

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 6

At Wednesday's meeting of the Shire Council, a letter was received from the Engineer, Mr. Swindlehurst, applying for a month's sick leave. A…

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Shire's Quandary Main Roads Board Payments Delayed

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 6

The Main Roads Board has notified the Shire Council that its second quarterly contribution to the Board under the Act fell due on June 30,…

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Council Again Debates Electric Question Seven Fresh Chapters in Katoomba's Perennial Tragi-Comedy Expert's Report on the K.E.S. MACHINERY Ald. John Lamont Acts the Christian

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 1

The interminable electric light question, at Tuesday night's meeting of Katoomba Council, kept erupting after the fashion of a volcano. There…

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Alderman Hawke "Your Good Health"

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 3

After declaration of the poll on Monday, and the official announcement that Russell Hawke was an alderman for the remainder of the…

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Still Dragging Its Weary Length Along Mayor and Ald. James grow Vehement over Electrical Question Charge of Suppressing Solicitor's Letter Contract Signed, Sealed and Delivered

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 August 1926 · page 1

The bitterness attending the interminable electric light question, which all hoped had been dissipated by the amicable "call" meeting of…

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Use of Council Chambers

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 7

The Blackheath centre of the Blue Mountains Anzac Memorial Hospital has applied to Council for permission to who the Council Chambers for its…

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Ambulance Subsidy Application to Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 7

The Katoomba Committee of the Blue Mountains District Ambulance has written to Blackheath Council, asking for a subsidy toward the cost…

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Electric Question Once Again Letter From the Minister Unsuspected Deputation by Hostile Aldermen Bitterness Created

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 1

The electric question again reared its ubiquitous head at Tuesday's Council meeting, with a promise of increased biterness. Little was said;…

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Storer's Claims Repudiated by Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 1

Mr. Storer, the acting electric engineer of Katoomba Municipality, was greatly in the limelight at Tuesday's meeting of the Council…

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Council's Staff Cost Clerk Authorised

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 5

Recently, Ald, C. P. Hendry moved that a Coat Clerk be engaged by Katooba Council, to enable fortnightly details of all Civic constructional…

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'Brook Progressives Appeal to Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 6

A meeting of Hazelbrook Progress Association was held on Thursday last week the President, Mr. J. L. Clark, being in the chair…

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Roads Board and Shire Council Payment of Salaries President Seeks Information from the Board "Liberal Treatment"

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 September 1926 · page 1

A special meeting of the Blue Mountains Shire Council was hold at Lawson on Wednesday afternoon, to receive a report from the President…

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Advanced Masonry Leura Cryptic Council

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 6

There was a distinguished gathering of advanced Masons at Leura Temple on Saturday last, when Past Thrice illustrious Master E. Smith…

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Assisting an Officer Council's Generosity

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 1

Mr. George Mays, Katoomba's impounding officer, was off duty for six weeks with pneumonia, alleged to have been contracted in the…

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Blackheath Council ENGINEER [?]

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 8

Ald. E. Board (Mayo[?] presided over a full Council on Tuesday evening. There was a spirit of enthusiasm in the air, for was not the…

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County Council Local Necessity Effective Safeguards

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 5

Many years ago, an abortive effort was made to create a County Council on the Blue Mountains. Various factors operated to prevent the…

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The Back to Blackheath Week Carnival Opening Ceremonies in Golden Sunshine Before Big Crowd Municipality's Water Supply Turned on Week's Revelry Proves Gigantic Success

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 1

In golden sunshine, and in the presence of a splendid gathering, including scores of residents of other days, Backheath Week was…

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Bulk Electricity Deputaion to shire (continued from page one)

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 October 1926 · page 8

other source, they might secure an equally strong report the other way. It was their duty to examine the question inall its faces, and come…

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Bulk Electricity Problem Blackheath Visits Shire Suggested Repudiation of Katoomba "Gentlemen's Agreement"

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 October 1926 · page 1

When a company supplies electricity in bulk, it charges a flat rate per unit of consumption, plus what technically is known as a K.V.A…

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