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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1927

1,025 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 38 of 52

Land Squabble Hungary and Roumania Lively League Council Debate. Geneva

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1927 · page 5

The League Council sat from ten in the morning till eight in the evening trying to find a solution of the Hungarian land squabble relating to Hungarian…

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Women Interview Lord Mayor Right to Become Aldermen. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 5

A deputation from the New South Wales Housewives' Association, waited on the Lord Mayor, Ald. Mostyn, today, and asked that women be made cligible…

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£3000 Claim Contractor V, Shire Council New Trial Ordered. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 5

Municipal and shire councils will be interested in a case in the Full Court today, in which William Robb Dawson, building contractor, of Wollongong, sued…

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Thousands in Excess. Sydney Council and State Rolls. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 5

The revision of the City Council rolls will be commenced on Wednesday. Examination so far has shown that several thousand named appear in excess of those…

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Grafton Council Road From The Bridge Tree Planting Programme Adding Machine Proposal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 2

The fortnightly meeting of the Grafton City Council was held last night, at the Town Hall, when there were present: The Mayor (Ald. D. W. Macpherson),…

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Labor Mayor Expelled From Party

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1927 · page 4

Following on the expulsion of the Mayor of Rockhampton (Alderman Dunlop) from the Labor movement by the North-street branch of the A.L.P., it is now stated…

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Municipal Borrowing Federal Loan Council Idea. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1927 · page 5

When asked what he thought of the idea that the Federal Loan Council should control municipal borrowing Dr. Earle Page, Federal Treasurer, replied: "It's a…

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"Labor Daily" City Council's Winding Up Petition. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1927 · page 5

It is announced in the New South Wales Government Gazette that a petition for the winding up of the Labor Daily, Limited, has been presented by the…

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£20,000 Writ Council Official v. "Sunday News." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1927 · page 5

Silas Young Maling, deputy-general manager of the Electricity Department of the City Council, has caused a Supreme Court writ for £20,000 damages to be…

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Rockhampton's Mayor and A.l.p

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1927 · page 4

Interviewed in regard to his expulsion from the North street branch of the A.L.P., which had been endorsed by the local executive, the Mayor, Alderman…

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Municipal Abattoirs

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1927 · page 4

According to a letter from the Metropolitan Meat Board to the Lismore Municipal Council abattoirs in Lismore should return £10,266 a year, and there would…

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Shire Council. Month's General Business

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 4

Councillors present at the monthly meeting of Dorrigo shire council, held at the Council Chambers, Coramba, on Wednesday, were Crs. J. J…

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North Coffs Sub-division Council Approver

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 1

Mr. A. W. J. Foster's subdivision at North Coffs Harbour, which has been before the shire council for some months, was finally amended…

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Dorrigo Shire

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Dorrigo Shire Council was Held at the Shire Chambers, on Wednesday last, there being, present: Cr. J. J. Boultwood (president),…

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Shire Revision Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 4

The court for the purpose of revising the list of electors for the Copmanhurst Shire sat yesterday morning at the Grafton Courthouse, Mr. E. A. Mahony…

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Time to Re Arrange Municipal and Shire Boundaries. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 5

The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Keegan, told a deputation that time had arrived when the whole question of rearranging municipal and shire boundaries…

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Murwillumbah Council and Child Endowment

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 4

It was revealed at the meeting of Murwillumbah Municipal Council on Wednesday night, that the council's contribution under the child endowment scheme…

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State Elections Council Op Churches Appeal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 6

The following appeal to the electors of New South Wales has been issued by the Council of Churches:-- "On the eve of the general election…

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South Grafton Council Extraordinary Vacancy, Three Nominations Received

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 4

Nominations were received at noon yesterday, for the vacancy for alderman in the South Grafton Municipal Council, by the Town Clerk, Mr. A. J. Young, the…

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The Elections Endowment Returns "Red and Dead Bogey" Mr. Theodore and the Council. Nyngan

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 5

Speaking at Nyngan, Mr. Buttenshaw urged that the provision of travelling hospitals should be part of any Government's policy. He also put in a strong…

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