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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

431 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 22

Grafton P. And C. Council Should Provide Swimming Facilities

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 3

THE onus was on the Grafton City Council to provide proper swimming facilities, even if it was a charge against it, said the president of the Grafton P. and C. Association (Mr. C. W. Schaeffer) last night…

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Dorrigo Shire Council the Monthly Meeting Points of Local Interest

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 3

Councillors in attendance at the May monthly meeting of the above Council were Cr. Bailey, in the chair, Boultwood,…

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Mayor's Plan To Help CWA Baby Health Centre

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 5

MACLEAN.--The Mayor (Aid. G. Markham) at the meeting of of the Maclean Municipal Council put forward a plan he had, by which the council could assist the building of a new C.W.A. Baby Health Centre, and widen John street at the same time…

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Group Council C.w.a. Meets at Sawtell

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 7

The first quarterly meeting of the newly-created North Coast Group of the CWA was held at Sawtell on…

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South Grafton Municipal Council Meeting

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 2

South Grafton Council on Tuesday night decided to instruct its solicitor to complete the necessary mortgage for the…

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Shire to Test Resumption Powers for Building Sites

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 4

BELLINGEN.--Cr. R. R. Wolfe, at a meeting of Bellingen Shire Council, referred to the shortage of available building sites in…

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Council 'Staff Save Southampton Punt?

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 3

Six Copmanhurst Shire Council workmen saved the Southampton punt from being swept away on Tuesday night…

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Mayor Commends Fine Co- Operation

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 1

The Mayor of South Grafton (Ald. J. C. Lane) said yesterday that he desired to express his heartfelt appreciation for the…

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Requests From Boambee to the Shire

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

Several matters of importance were f submitted by Boambee Progress Association to Bellingeri Shire Council at…

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An Alderman Sets Good Example

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 7

A spirit of self-help was shown by Ald. L. C. Munns, of South Grafton. The flood waters swirling from…

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Council Offices Submerged

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 7

The building which houses the Nymboida and Orara Shire Council offices received a severe drubbing by flood waters…

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Coff's Municipality Proposal Deferred For Year

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sat.-- Coff's Harbour Chamber of Commerce Will defer action on the establishment of a…

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Requirements for the Status of a Municipality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 2

The qualifications necessary before a town can be raised to the status of a municipality were presented to…

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City Alderman To Leave Grafton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 2

Mr. Brian L. Miller, resident inspector in Grafton for the London and Lancashire Insurance Co. Ltd., and a member…

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Heavy Flood Damage In Copmanhurst Shire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 4

A PRELIMINARY inspection of roads throughout the Copmanhurst Shire Council showed that flood damage would exceed £15,000, said the shire engineer (Mr. H. I. McGuigan) at yesterday's meeting of the council…

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History of Shire to Be Compiled

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

Dorrigo Shire Council, on Wednesday, unanimously decided to endorse a proposal by Cr. Riding that a complete…

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Each £ Shire Revenue Is Spent This Way

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 5

Shire Clerk Ray Smith submitted some very interesting figures at Wednesday's meeting of Dorrigo Shire Council…

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Shire Roads and Work of the Month

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 6

Mr. F. J. Dodd, Shire Engineer, submitted the following report on Shire activities in the past month to…

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Bellingen Shire Damage Over £2000

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 6

BELLINGEN.—Although the Bellinger did not suffer the same devastation as northern centres in the recent flood,…

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Damage To Terania Shire Bridges

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Fri.—Damage caused by the flood to the bridges in the Terania Shire was conservatively by the council estimated at…

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