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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1947

555 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 17 of 28

Borrowings From Loan Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tues.--Approval for borrowings totalling the sum of £107,429,000 for the next financial year, will be sought by…

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Red Cross Centre Plans Submitted To Grafton Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1947 · page 4

It was stated at Monday's meeting of the Grafton branch of the Red Cross Society, that the proposed plans for the new…

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Shire Chambers Proposal For Coff's Harbour

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1947 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR.--Councillor W. H. T. Riding stated that the special sub-committee appointed to prepare a report…

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Tenders For Road Work In Harwood Shire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1947 · page 3

MACLEAN.--At the Harwood Shire Council meeting it was decided that tenders be called for the road work from Mororo…

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Council To Abate Dust Nuisance

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1947 · page 2

The Shire engineer of the Copmanhurst Council, Mr. H. I. McGuigan, yesterday drew the attention of the councillors to the…

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Copmanhurst Shire Council To Co-operate With Junior Farmers

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 7

MEMBERS of the Copmanhurst Shire Council on Wednesday decided to fully co-operate with the Junior Farmers' Advisory Council in its endeavour to secure a full time supervisor for the Clarence River district…

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Criticism Of Harwood Shire

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 6

PALMER'S ISLAND.--Dissatisfaction with the efforts of the Harwood Shire Council in maintaining shire roads and…

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School of Arts And Council Chambers

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 1

[?] of selling the present Sc[?] site in Coffs' Harbour and combining with the Shire Council to erect a big civic centre…

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Health Matters New Dwellings Fob Dorrigo Assistant Inspector's Report to Council

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 2

Included in the building applications listed by the assistant inspector (Mr. J. W. Towell) in his report to Wednesday's…

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R. S. L. To Discuss Formation Of District Council

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 August 1947 · page 3

Grafton R.S.L., advised Thursday night's meeting of the South Grafton R.S.L., that district sub-branches favoured the…

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SAWTELL Shire Council Matters

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 7

In his report to the last Shire Council meeting the Shire Clerk made the following reference to Sawtell streets:…

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Dorrigo Shire Ridings

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 3

CORAMBA.-- The rearrangement of Ridings in the shire has been gazetted. In place of the existing six Ridings the area has…

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Preparations for Shire Elections

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 2

Coffs Chamber of Commerce on Friday night decided to call a public meeting in October for the purpose of endorsing candidates for…

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Callous Damage To Shire Roads

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 3

Cr. Harry Bailey referred at last Wednesday's Shire meeting to serious damage caused to a length of road on…

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Splendid Services Recognised by Council

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 2

The splendid services rendered to the Dorrigo Shire Council over a period of eleven years by Mrs. McPherson (better known as Miss…

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Council Decision On South Grafton Trees

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 3

SOUTH Grafton Council last night at the end of a long and at times heated discussion, by five votes to three, defeated a motion to rescind council's previous resolution to remove plots and trees from Skinner street, South Grafton, to give additional…

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Council Employee Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 August 1947 · page 2

Miss May Casson, for the past seven end a half years a member of the clerical staff cf the South Grafton Council, was…

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SAWTELL Shire Council Matters

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 3

Following matters of local interest came before the monthly meeting of the Shire Council:— From RSSAILA, Sawtell sub-branch…

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Shire Council The August Meeting

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 3

A big batch of correspondence from ratepayers and others on many and varied subjects occupied thef time of councillors at the monthly…

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Rearrangement Of Ridings In Dorrigo Shire

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 7

COFF'S HARBOUR.--Coff's Harbour Chamber of Commerce discussed a communication from the Department of Local…

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