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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1901

236 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 12

Maclean Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 8

The whole of the aldermen attenddd the regular meeting on Tuesday. Mr. J. McFarlane, M.L.A., wrote promising to do his best to obtain a grant for the improvement of the…

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Maclean Municipal Council

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday evening. Present—The Mayor and Alderman Soh wonberg, Mscnaughten, Gallagher, M'Milan, Goddard, Kans and Meek…

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Grafton Borough Council

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

THE regular meeting of the above was held last Wednesday evening, Present:--The Mayor (chair), Ald. Salman, Page, Share, Beaston, Crispin, Kitsch, Bowden, Johnson,…

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Proposal to Borrow. the Mayor Gives His Casting Vote

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

AT Wednesday night's meeting of the Grafton Borough Council Ald. Page moved :-- "That a sum of money, not exceeding £4000, be raised by loan at a rate of interest not…

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Municipal Borrowing

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1901 · page 2

ON the casting vote of the Mayor the Council on Wednesday evening rejected a proposal to borrow £4000 for expenditure upon various streets within…

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Grafton Borough Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 2

The regular meeting was held on Wednesday, when all the Aldreman were present. A letter was read acknowledging message of sympathy from the Council with the King…

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Topical Talk. the Council and the Loan

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 4

While there's life there's hope. There is a spark of life still flickering in the Council; although from some things which have recently appeared in print one might have thought the institution as…

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Maclean Municipal Council

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 5

AT the meeting on Tuesday there were present—the Mayor and Aldermen Schwenberg, Kane, Mook and Mackay. B, Bridger wrote offering to pay half the cost of…

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Municipal Appeals

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 4

ON Wednesday afternoon a Friendly Appeal Court was held in the Council Chambers, before the Mayor and Ald. Schwonberg, Goddard, Gallagher, Mackay, M eek and Kane, to deal with…

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Correspondence. Municipal Borrowing And-- Other Matters

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 2

SIR,--I was somewhat amused, and not a little astonished, to read in the " Examiner" of to-day a column of--well, matter--directed against the aldermen of Grafton for not…

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Maclean Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1901 · page 8

The Council met on Tuesday. Present—The Mayor. Ald, Schwonborge, Meek, Mackay and Kane. F. North and C. Dunnet, against, whom summonsee had been issued for the recovery of rates, offered…

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Alderman Albert Meek

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1901 · page 2

MACLEAN'S new alderman has attained the distinction—which many ambitious persons sigh for in vain—of having his portrait published in the BULLETIN. The portrait is a reproduction…

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Ulmarra Municipal Council

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 June 1901 · page 5

THE usual monthly Council meeting, from which only Aid. Niland, now in Sydney, was absent, was held on Wednesday. The petitions of Jas. Watkins and others, and…

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South Grafton Municipal Council

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1901 · page 3

THE usual meeting of the Council was held on Wednesday. The Mayor presided, and all the aldermen were present. The Citizen's Life Office wrote offering to…

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South Grafton Municipal Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 8

The regular meeting was held on Wednesday, when the whole of the Aldermen were present. The Public Works Department wrote that the embankment asked for near the foot of Minden-street…

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Ulmarra Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 8

The usual monthly meeting was held on Wednesday. Ald, Niland being absent. The Assurance Coy offered to lend money at a low rate of interest…

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Warning to North Coast Municipal Councils

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1901 · page 2

AT the Maclean District Court on Friday last all the compassion which hadn't been smothered by the lawyer-like instincts of Judge Heydon's soul rose to the surface and…

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Maclean Municipal Council

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 14 June 1901 · page 3

At the meeting on Tuesday evening there were present: The Mayor and Alderman Schwonberg, Gallagher, Goddard, Macnaughtan, Kane, Meek and Mackay…

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Grafton Borough Council

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1901 · page 2

The regular meeting of the Council was held last Wednesday, evening. Present:--Ald. Bawden (chair), Kritsch, Maxted, Page, Shore, Solman, Eggius, and Crispin…

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Maclean Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 2

The regular meeting on Tuesday evenin was attended by the Mayor, Ald. Schwonberg, Macnaughton, Gallagher, Goddard, Meek, Mackay, and Kane…

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