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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 48 of 52

The New Plateau Shire

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 2

According to Mr. L. G. Waugh the Shire severance committee's figures, or some of them, are most misleading, and in the event of its schema…

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Council Meetings

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 4

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Orara Shire Council will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday next, and at 2 p.m. the same day a special meeting will be held…

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Main Road Matters Board's Engineer at Maclean Interview with Municipal Council

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 2

At the invitation of the Mayor of Maclean (Ald. L. A. Macdonald), Mr. E. F. Crouch, engineer of the Main Roads Board, attended the Maclean Council…

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Roads Bills in Legislative Council. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 4

The Federal Aid Roads Bill and the Main Roads (Amendment) Bill were both read a second time in the Legislative Council to-night and taken through…

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Migration Trade Union Council's Opposition. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 5

If effective Parliamentary action was possible it would be taken, but in the circumstances it is not likely that the matter will be mentioned in the House, said the…

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Maclean Council Health Inspector Fire Insurance Classification Brick Area to Be Proclaimed

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1927 · page 6

The Maclean Municipal Council met on Monday night last, when the Mayor, Ald. L. A. Macdonald, presided, and there were present: Aldermen. E. G. Grainger…

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Main Roads Ulmarra Problems Mayor and Council's Critics

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1927 · page 3

Dealing with main roads and town improvement work at the Ulmarra Council meeting on Thursday, the Mayor (Ald. Fitzgerald) said that there were a number…

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Election of Mayor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1927 · page 4

A special meeting of the Grafton City Council will be held at the Town Hall, Grafton, on Monday next at 7 p.m. for the purpose of electing an alderman to…

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Ulmarra Council Election Fd Mayor Ald G. W. Fitzgerald Again Appointed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1927 · page 3

A special meeting of Ulmarra Council was held on Thursday night for the purpose of fixing the Mayoral allowance and for the election of Mayor for ensuing…

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Ulmarra Council Water Scheme Question Mayor Favors Nymb0ida Supply £20,000 Federal Grant Application Proposal

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1927 · page 3

The fortnightly meeting of the Ulmarra Municipal Council was held on Thursday night, there being present Alderman G. W. Fitzgerald (Mayor), Aldermne F. J…

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Shook for Yass Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1927 · page 4

Last August the Yass municipal electrical engineer, Mr. J. St. J. Robertson, broke his arm while cranking the council's truck. A claim for workers'…

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Fists and Inkpots Fight in Tokio City Council. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1927 · page 5

Fisticuffs and an exchange or inkpots as missiles was the climax to a debate in the City Assembly over a motion of no confidence in the Mayor, whom political…

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Federal Pact. Country Party and Nationalists Hume C.P. Council Against Renewal. Wagga, Sunday. '

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1927 · page 5

At a meeting of the Hume Electorate Council of the Country party, at which the general secretary, Colonel Munro, and Mr. E. A. Field, representing the Central…

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Lismore's Mayor Ald Mckenzie Re-elected. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 5

Alderman C. Mckenzie was to-night re-elected mayor of Lismore. This is the tenth time he has filled the position…

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The Mayoralty Ald. Macpherson Re-elected Unanimous Appointment Deputy-mayor, Ald. C. C. Mcdonald

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 7

At a special meeting, of the Grafton City Council last, night Ald. D. W. Macpherson was re-clected Mayor on the unanimous nomination of the aldermen…

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Research Council Work to Be Co-ordinated. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 5

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is taking steps to co-ordinate research work, both with the United Kingdom and the States…

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Loan Council N.S.W. Signs Agreement. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 5

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, stated to-night that he had telegraphed to the Prime Minister announcing the State Government's signing of the financial agreement…

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Grafton Council Christmas Bank Holidays Petition Turned Down Metal Prices

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1927 · page 7

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

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Orara Shire Council Election of President Cr. J. Campbell Again Appointed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 December 1927 · page 2

At a special meeting of the Orara Shire Council held at the Shire Chambers, South Grafton, yesterday, Cr. J. Campbell was re-elected president for the…

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Water Scheme For Lower Clarence Proposed Conference at Maclean Orara Shire Council's Attitude

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 December 1927 · page 7

At the meeting of the Orara Shire Council yesterday, Cr. John Campbell, president, being in the chair, the following communication was received from the…

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