Forthcoming Municipal Election
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 October 1928 · page 2
It is laid down by statute that Municipal elections shall be held triennially, on the first Saturday in December. That momentous date falls on December 1, 1928, and nominations for office will need to be in the hands of the Returning Officer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nimble Sprat: Making Motorists Pay for Burial of their Victims At last meeting of Katoomba Council, it was resolved to re-impose the parking fee of 6d. per car at Echo Point
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 October 1928 · page 3
Just sixpence! Look here It is not very dear; And forty small sprats make a quid. In the harbor, they charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mt. Blackheath Road Council Votes £80
The Blue Mountain Echo · Tuesday 16 October 1928 · page 4
In a letter to Blackheath Council, received by that body on Tuesday, Shipley Progress and Fruitgrowers' Association expressed thanks to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council's Praise Of Electric Department Staff's Yeoman Service
The Blue Mountain Echo · Tuesday 16 October 1928 · page 4
Respecting the vicious gale which swept. over the Mountains a little over a week ago, the inspector of Works and Services reported as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Auditor's Report Town Clerk Replies Council Praises Officers
The Blue Mountain Echo · Tuesday 16 October 1928 · page 4
The auditors' report to Blackheath Council was read at Tuesday night's meeting. Apart from a number of minor "pin pricks," there was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petrol Pumps Council Refuses Approval
The Blue Mountain Echo · Tuesday 23 October 1928 · page 4
In connection with the recent application of Mr. Soldlecky for permission to erect a petrol kerbaide pump on the footpath adjoining the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Crumbs
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 4
The works committee was instructed to report on the footpath, in Morriwa Stroot. The local branch of the R.S. and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glenbrook Hotel Council to Inspect
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 5
Mr. H. G. Kirkpatrick was before the Shire Council on Wednesday to explain a few points in connection with the erection of the new hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council's Inspection of Sanitary Road
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 1
As a result of Cr. Miller's ex[?]tations, the members of the Shire Council are to make an inspection of the Sanitary Road at Wontworth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mac's "Arrears" Council's Closed Book
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 2
A further communication was before the Shire Council on Wednesday with regard to Mr. MucCloskey's alleged pay, asking what steps were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipal Quarry Big Saving Made Gratifying Report
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 3
The following report from the Municipal Engineer was Labled at Tuesday's meeting of Katoomba Council:-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →B.M. Shire Water Scheme Katoomba Council Shy Referred to Incoming Councils
The Blue Mountain Echo · Monday 29 October 1928 · page 2
At a conference between the Shire and Katoomba Councils, hed yesterday afternoon, it was unanimously decided to refer matters in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burragorang Road Departmental Activity B.M. Shire Not Involved
The Blue Mountain Echo · Monday 29 October 1928 · page 3
The Engineer was taken over the Burragorang Roand on Thursday week by Engineer Thom of the Woollondilly Shire, [?]companted by [?] E. S…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Old and the New Blackheath Council's Quandary Improving the SHIPlEY ROAD
The Blue Mountain Echo · Monday 29 October 1928 · page 4
Following a communication from Mr. W. White, received by Blackheath Council, at Tuesday's meeting, the difficulties in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Ha'p'orth of Tar" New Council's Duty Completing Hawke Park
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 November 1928 · page 4
The utilitarian value to Katoomba of Russell Hawke Park, best is judged by the patronage extended by the public, for whose benefit the little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blue Mountains Shire the Nominations East End Well Satisfied
The Blue Mountain Echo · Tuesday 6 November 1928 · page 1
Returning Officer A. Howell found rather a mixed menu when he opened the nominations for the new Council of his vast territory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wall Condemned Council's Ultimatum
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 November 1928 · page 3
The following report from the Municipal Health Officer was adopted unanimously, at Tuesday's meeting of Katoomba Council:-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Votes and Votes: How the Aldermen voted Cash to Secure another Kind of Vote
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 November 1928 · page 3
On Tuesday night, despite the fact that its Engineer had characterised carried out before the soil consolidated. Katoomba Council resolved today a concrete wicket in Leura playing aron. Our fingers just itch To give you a pitch On which to induigo local cricket. We have no concrete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Milleritis" Malady Again Affects Council Please Sir, I Didn't Say It!
The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 November 1928 · page 2
Cr. Miller's flagrant flamboyancy in figures received another rude check, at Wednesday's Shire Council meeting, when the Valuer-General…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Localisms the Shire Boundaries
The Blue Mountain Echo · Tuesday 13 November 1928 · page 2
Sitting to-day, at Penrith, the inquiry by the Land Board into the proposal to alter the boundary of North Springwood, between Colo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →