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A ferry launch has been engaged by the Grand Council of Progress and Kindred Associations of Gosford Shire to bring progress associations' delegates and the public to Gosford on June 29 to a public meeting in the Masonic Hall. The main business of the meet-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Since my name has been mentioned by Mr. Lowry in his letter of June 10, allow me to point out that the Man-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Torrential rain, which has brought about floods and power cuts, has completely broken down organisation in the Gosford district and in all other parts of the state. This issue of the GOSFORD TIMES, which anticipates the chaos which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"That punch will cost you a thousand quid, Tom Smith", Gosford Shire Councillor Walter Leslie Lloyd, of 241 West Street, Umina, is alleged to have told Cr Thomas Worthy James Smith, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the close of the Gosford Court of Petty Sessions Thursday last Mr A. E. Stonham, SM, adjourned the hearing of evidence in an action brought by Cr Thomas Worthy James Smith (Patonga) against a fellow Gosford Shire Councillor, William James Archibald Dennett (Avoca), "that on and since March 1, 1949, he had acted in a civic capacity whilst subject to a special disqualification"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The president, deputy-president, and two other councillors walked out of a Gosford Shire Council meeting yesterday because they refused to associate themselves with a notice of motion put…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Because of the "shocking condition" of roads bus services to some parts of East Gosford and Springfield, had been suspended,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"There is an ulterior motive behind this action. It is a mean and vindictive action about something so trivial that it should never have been litigated", said Mr J. K. Emmerton after Mr A. E. Stonham,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gosford Shire Council moved last night to sack its sanitary contractor by asking him to show cause why his contract should not be cancelled "because of his non-compliance with the terms of his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gosford Shire Council is faced with the position that it has urgent flood repair work to do but no money. For more than two hours last night a special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By five votes to four the Gosford Shire Council this morning carried a resolution dissenting from the ruling of the President (Cr W. B. Grahame) "that the ruling given by him at a previous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sixty-four applications for buildings, which it is estimated will cost £33,709, were approved at a meeting of Gosford Shire Council today. Following are details of those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many years experience as local government auditors had placed their firm in a position to compare the work and condition of accounts at the Gosford Shire Council with that of other councils,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collections of arrears of rates was being dealt with systematically, Shire Clerk N. G. Howes informed Tuesday's meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Gosford Shire Council meeting adjourned on Tuesday on the tick of 4.30 pm with business unfinished…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All maintenance gangs in the Gosford Shire are to be transferred to Woy Woy for the next two weeks to drain areas which are flooded. This was decided at a meeting of Gosford Shire Council on Tuesday after complaints had been made that many areas at Woy Woy were still flood-bound…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gosford Shire Sanitary Contractor W. Vass, of Bankstown, who has been asked by the council to show cause why his contract should not be cancelled, because of alleged breaches, asked the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Minister for Local Government said on Friday that he would not hold an inquiry into the affairs of the Gosford Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a statement to the GOSFORD TIMES yesterday, Cr B. M. Sinclair told ratepayers why he resigned from the Gosford Shire Council on Tuesday last: "I think few people in the shire realise how tremendous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deputy Shire President B. M. Sinclair resigned his seat as a B Riding representative of the Gosford Shire Council at a special meeting on Tuesday. He said afterwards that he had realised for some time that the council was "quite unworkable" as constituted at present. The actions of some of the…
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