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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1902

273 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 14

Maclean Municipal Council. A Big Budget of Business.—Aid. See Again on the Warpath —Seasonable Felicitations

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 4

At the regular meeting on Tuesday evening, all the aldermen were present, except Aid. Goddard, who forwarded an apology owing to illness. Aid, Sec expressed sympathy with Aid. Goddard, and hoped…

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Maclean Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 5

The Mayor presided at the meeting on Tuesday. Permission was given Gallagher Brothers to put a box drain in the water table in front of their mill. G. Want complained a second time of the…

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Grafton Borough Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 4

Tho regular meeting was held last evening. Pressent—The Mayor, A[?]d. Trent, Page[?] M'Farlane, Bawden, Crispin, Eggins, Johnson, Kritsch, Shore, Maxted…

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Grafton Borough Council

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1902 · page 1

THE usual meeting of the Council was held on Friday evening. Present -- The Mayor (in the chair), Ald. M'Farlane, Eggins, Johnson, Kritsch, Page, Bawden, Trent,…

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Municipal Councils Want Money

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1902 · page 4

LAST week a deputation of some 200 persona (including Mayors and aldermen and State members of Parliament for various metropolitan constituencies),…

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Ald. D. See and the Maclean Mayor

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 3

SIR,—In your report of the last Meclean Municipal Council meeting it is reported that the Mayor said:—"They probably could not hope to have Ald, See back again, as now that womanhood suffrage was…

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South Grafton Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 2

The regular meeting was held on Wednesday. Present, the Mayor Ald. Kearney, Carlton, Schwinghammer, M'Guren. The Department wrote asking for…

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Grafton Borough Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1902 · page 5

A meeting of Council was held last evening, when the whole of the aldermen were in attendance. The following cab and vehicle licenses…

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Borough Council

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1902 · page 1

THE usual meeting of the above was held on Monday evening. The whole of the aldermen were present. The Lands Department forwarded a…

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Early Records Discovered. Minutes of First Council Meeting

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1902 · page 2

SOME highly interesting, if not valuable, records, were recovered quite accidentally from a heap of rubbish, about to be burned at the gas works last week,…

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Maclean Municipal Council

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 26 December 1902 · page 4

At the usual monthly meeting of the COuncil on Tuesday the Mayor and Aldermen Kelly, Mckinnon, McMillan, Gallagher, Cameron and Kane were present…

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The Lord Mayor and the Cyclist

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 December 1902 · page 4

The Lord Mayor of Sydney has has risen to a sense of his dignity by affording a public welcome, at the Town Hall, to a coloured cyclist from America named Taylor. We…

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Maclean Council

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 December 1902 · page 4

The Mayor presided at the regular meeting on Tuesday. The Progress Association asked the Council to make an effort to obtain a…

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