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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1949

448 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 23

Dorrigo Band— No Shire Assistance

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 July 1949 · page 1

Hopes of financial assistance from the Dorrigo Shire, which had been entertained by the Dorrigo Band committee were…

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Cane Growers Meet A.L.P. Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 2

Three sugar cane growers at Maclean yesterday conferred with delegates of the A.L.P. Electorate Council urging…

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Hydro Schemes Council Suggests Expert Advice

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 3

Grafton City Council decided, at last night's meeting to recommend to the Clarence River County Council that it consider the advisability of inviting Mr. Rowntree,…

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Council Discussion Oh Power Restrictions

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 4

THE serious handicaps being suffered by the Grafton district through restrictions imposed on electricity and gas by the coal strike were discussed at Monday night's meeting of the Grafton City Council…

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Dorrigo Shire Council

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 2

Councilors in attendance at the June monthly meeting of the above Council, held at the Council Chambers, Coramba. were: W. H. Bailey,…

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Manly Deputy Mayor Killed In Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 1

SIDNEY, Thurs.--The Deputy Mayor of Manly (Ald. F. Dodds) was killed mid his wife seriously injured in a car accident at…

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Orara Shire Strikes New Rate For Wooli

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 4

A SPECIAL local rate of a minimum of £1 per block will be levied next year in the village of Wooli by the Orara Shire Council. The money raised by the rate…

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Council Invited To Attend C.W.A. Meeting

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 July 1949 · page 3

The Mayor and aldermen of the Grafton City Council will be asked by the Grafton branch of the C.W.A. to attend a…

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France Approves Council Treaty

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 1

PARIS. Sunday. (AAP).--The French National Assembly last night approved the country's participation in the European…

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Petition On Bridge Received By Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 4

AFFECTION drawing attention to the dangerous bridge on the Dorrigo-Tyringham road was received at Friday's meeting of the Nymboida Shire Council at South Grafton The petition was signed by…

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Transport in Dorrigo Shire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Mon.--An emergency transport committee to arrange and co-ordinate transport within the Dorrigo shire…

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Chamber of Commerce Thanks Shire Council

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 7

Coffs Chamber of Commerce decided at the monthly meeting to forward a letter of appreciation to the Shire Council for…

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Council Discussion On Pensioners' Rates

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 3

THE Government had placed the responsibility of relieving, aged persons from paying rates on councils, said the Mayor of Grafton (Ald. W. T. Robinson) at last night's meeting, instead of accepting the responsibility of full care for the aged…

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Council to Enter Festival Float

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 2

Grafton City Council last night decided to enter a float in this year's Jacaranda Festival. The decision was made on the motion…

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Council Affirms New State Support

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 2

The Grafton City Council last night reaffirmed its support of the, New England New State Movement as providing the…

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Seek County Council On Water Hyacinth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 3

YESTERDAY'S conference of Clarence local, governing bodies convened to discuss the formation of a water hyacinth county council decided to ask each council to implement the recommendations of the conference in February…

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Strike Retarding Shire Works

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 5

The Shire Council has been trying since November last to get new blades for the Fordson grader and the strike makes the…

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Council as Trustees Woolgoolga Reserve

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 1

The Dorrigo Shire Council has decided to accept the trusteeship of the recreation reserve at Woolgoolga where the…

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Health Matters Inspector's Report to Council

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 3

Wheaton Bros and Sinclair& McCarthy, made application (renewal) for registration under sub-section I of section 25 of the C.S.D.A. Meat Act…

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Municipality Not in Best Interests

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 1

Dorrigo Shire Council, on Wednesday, in reply to a petition signed by 44 townspeople, decided to inform…

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