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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 7 of 52

The Council and the Baths

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 4

When, about a month ago, this paper pointed to the danger that children and non-swimmers were running at the Grafton baths the Grafton City Council, or a majority of its members, pooh-poohed the idea. The council, with a half-hearted show of indignation and balking at…

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L. G. Merger? Maclean and Harwood Shire Wants Information

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 4

At the ordinary meeting of Harwood Shire Council, on Friday, a letter was read from the Maclean Municipal Council, regarding the question of…

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Endowment Bill What Will Council Do? Industrialists Favor Rejection. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1927 · page 5

The principal interest in political circles is centred. on the Child Endowment Bill. If present intentions are adhered to the second reading will be gagged at noon on…

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Copmanhurst Shire Striking the Rate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 3

A special meeting of councillors of Copmanhurst Shire, for the purpose of striking the rate for the current year, was held at the Shire Office yesterday…

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Council Work Appreciated

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 4

L. Scrivener, of 35, Wetherel street, Croydon, brought blushes to the collective checks of the Bellingen Shire councillors at last meeting when he addressed…

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Primary Producers Union Raleigh District Council

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 2

Among the delegates present at the animal meeting of the Raleigh Council of the P.P.U., held at Bellingen, were Messrs. C. A. Clark, J. C…

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Rum Tangle Mayor in Prison to Hold Office for Year City's Citizens in Two Camps. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 5

A message from Edgewater, New Jersey, states that arrangements are being made so that Mayor Henry Wissel, who was sentenced to a year's…

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S.G. COUNCIL Street Lighting Local Government Functions the Rates Levied

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 7

The fortnightly meeting of the South Grafton Municipal Council was held last evening, there being present:-- The Mayor (Ald. S. A. Jones), and Aldermen…

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DIVIDED Northern Miners Council's Recommendations Men in Two Camps. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 5

The miners are divided into two camps, one in favor of a stoppage of work and another in opposition to the Miners' Council's recommendations…

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Garage Service South Grafton Council Project

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 7

Further consideration was given by the South Grafton Municipal Council at their meeting on Monday night to the question of the garbage service…

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Speaking for Australia the Value of the Australian Dairy Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 7

The continuous importation of butter from New Zealand through the port of Sydney is doing, in reality, more to weld the dairymen of the Mother State into…

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Seats Bill Lost in Council Marginal Clause Defeated Bill May Be Jettisoned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 5

The second reading of the Electoral and Electorates Amendment Bill, which is designed to give greater representation to the country, was…

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"I'll Admit Nothing Alderman Charged with Stock Straying

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 February 1927 · page 6

When Ald. W.H. Watson was charged, with over a dozen others, at the Armidale Police Court, with being the owner of stock found straying on a reserve, he…

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Nearly Drowned Woman in Baths Mayor an Eyewitness Ald. and Council's Engineer to Rescue Will Council Act Now?

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 4

THERE WAS NEARLY ANOTHER DROWNING FATALITY IN THE GRAFTON BATHS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON…

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P.P. UNION Clarence District Council Annual and Quarterly Meetings. Important Matters Discussed

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 7

The annual meeting of the Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers' Union took place at Ulmarra Council Chambers yesterday, when the…

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Railway Works Block on Casino Line Chamber of Commerce Action Railway Council to Be Approached

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 8

The stoppage of work on the railway line, between Grafton and Casino, was referred to at the meeting of the Grafton Chamber of…

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Primary Producers' Union. District Council Meets Officers Elected for 1927 MR. F. Pile, of Macksville, the New President

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 3

The annual meeting of delegates to the Raleigh District Council of the Primary Producers' Union was held in the Masonic Hall, Bellingen, on…

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Ulmarra Council

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 4

At the meeting of the Ulmarra Council on Thursday night a letter was received from, a number of Coldstream residents, asking the council to meet them at Mr…

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Labor Aldermen Object to £10,000 Ceremony for King. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

Labor mourners of the Glasgow municipality, have declined to participate in the ceremonies during the King's visit to open Kelvin Hall, in July, declaring…

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Joy Riding and Missing Batteries Council Garage Inquiry. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

The missing batteries from the City Council garage was the subject a of an exhaustive inquiry at the City Council garage inquiry…

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