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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 17 of 22

Security Council Debate Boycott

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 October 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P.).-- Russia and Ukraine have boycotted the Security Council's debate-- listed for to-day-- of the Western Powers' complaint on the Berlin…

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Dorrigo Shire Council the Monthly Meeting

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 1

Councillors in attendance at the September monthly meeting of above Council were: W. H. Bailey, president, in the chair, Boultwood,…

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Strong Objections to Timber in Shire Lane

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 2

Strong objections to the use of the Dobie street punt lane at South Grafton as a timber dump were received at…

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Maclean Council's Request For s Grant Elicits Support

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 3

MACLEAN, Wed:-- The Maclean Municipal Council, at its meeting last night, received a letter from Mr. C. G…

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Mayor's Comment

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 October 1948 · page 2

Commenting yesterday on the flying boat service be ween Sydney and the Clarence River, proposed by Trans-Oceanic…

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Increasing Cost of Shire Works

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 1

"No one preparing estimates of works a year or tvo ago could have envisaged the increased costs that…

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Security Council Meeting Off

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Mon. (A.A.P.).--The meeting of the U.N.O. Security Council called for to-day has been postponed to allow discussion on suggestions for ending the…

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Council Purchases of Undertakings

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 October 1948 · page 2

KATOOMBA, Wednesday.-- The Government proposed to bring down a Bill to enable municipal and shire councils to purchase privately owned gas and electricity undertakings and pay for them by debentures, instead of in cash, said the Minister for…

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Money Shortage Hits Kempsey Council

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 3

The rise in costs of material and wages js forcing Kempsey Municipal Council to reduce the outdoor staff to a minimum, but…

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Case Against Council Costs Order to Stand

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs. -- The Full Bench of the Supreme Court declined to-day to alter its previous order regarding the payment of…

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Palms In Prince Street. Against Council Decision

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 3

The question of whether bicycle shelters should be built in Prince street, Grafton, faded into the background yesterday when the Deputy Mayor (Aid. E. H. Chataway) overrode a Grafton City Council resolution that shrubs be grown in the garden plots…

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Shire Worker Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 2

BELLINGEN.-- Mr. Arnold Cooke, an employee of Bellingen Shire Council, was lucky to avoid severe injury when a gravel…

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Council Employee Receives Shock

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 2

BELLINGEN.-- Mr. J. Shelley, of the Clarence River County Council staff at Bellingen, received a severe electric shock…

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Potato Council Election

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

TYNEDALE.--Considerable interest is manifest in the forthcoming ballet to elect a representative to the New South Wales Potato…

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Arts Council Concert Next

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 5

The programme of the concert to be presented next Saturday night by the local branch of the Arts Council follows the…

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Crofton Weed In the Shire

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 5

The Noxious Weeds Inspector, Mr. J. W. Towell, forwarded to last Shire meeting a sample of Crofton Weed, which is…

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Council Rejects Public Library

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

The installation of a Public Library in Coffs Harbour will not be proceeded with by Dorrigo Shire Council. This…

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Permits for New Buildings in the Shire

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 6

Approval for the erection of nine new dwellings in Coffs Harbour, three in Woolgoolga and one in Dorrigo were…

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Council's Decisions on Coffs Requests

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 8

A pumber of recommendations from the Urban Committee arising from requests received were before the…

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City Council Endorses Deputy Mayor's Action

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 3

IN the presence of about 50 residents, Grafton City Council last night, after a lively and at times acrimonious debate, endorsed the action of the Deputy Mayor (Ald. E. H. Chataway), in stopping work on the Prince street bicycle racks, and in replacing the…

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