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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1950

513 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 26

Nomination For Council Vacancy

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 3

Westlawn Progreess, Association last night nominated Mr. George William Chalmers to fill the vacancy on the Grafton City…

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Council Of Unions For Armidale

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 3

ARMIDALE.-- A council of trade unions is to be formed at Armidale. Ald. D. W. Cameron said, the…

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Pope Nominates Cardinal Gilroy for Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 4

VATICAN CITY, Sun. (AAP).--Pope Plus has nominated Cardinal Gilrov as Pontifical delegate to the Plenary Council for…

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Pay Increases For Council Employees

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues. -- Substantial pay increases were granted to approximately 800 clerical employees of most municipal…

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Council By- Election Nominations To-day

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 3

Nominations for the Grafton City Council by -election caused by the death of Ald. G. C. Chalmers, close with the Town Clerk…

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Maclean Council

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

Maclean.--The meeting of Maclean Municipal Council will be held on Tuesday, January 24. It is likely action will be taken…

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New City Alderman

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 2

THE election unopposed of Mr. George William Chalmers to the Grafton City-. Council vacancy caused by the death of…

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Shire Adopts Record Works Programme

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 6

Estimates adopted by the Nymboida Shire Council at yesterday's meeting at the Council Chambers, South Grafton, provided for a record works programme. The general rate on the unimproved capital…

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C.R.C.A. Delegation To Wait On Mayor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

A delegation from the Clarence River Cricket Association will wait upon the Mayor of Grafton (Ald. W. R. Weiley)…

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G. W. Chalmers Elected To Council Unopposed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 2

Mr. George William Chalmers, of Bacon street, was yesterday declared elected an alderman of the Grafton City Council for the…

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Shire Deputation To Railway Commissioner

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 3

BELLINGEN, Sun.--The Bellingen Shire Council, at the January meeting, appointed a deputation (the president deputy…

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Bellingen Shire Reverses Transport Dept. Decision

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

BELLINGEN, Sun.--Bellingen Shire Council has decided to implement its powers in giving permission to a bus driver in the Sawtell area to pick up passengers on a run for which permission had been refused by the Transport Department…

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Bellingen Shire Building

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 4

BELLINGEN.--The Building Inspector (Mr. N. Ross) reported to the council meeting that 183 building permits had been issued…

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Building Survey Of Shire Area

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 2

With the object of applying to the department for the application of the building ordinances of the Local…

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Copmanhurst Shire Bush Fire Fund Exemption Sought

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 5

On the motion of Crs. I. C. Dight and H. C. Rogan, Copmanhurst Shire Council yesterday, decided to apply for exemption from the provisions of the Bush Fires Act, 1949, which provided for the…

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Ulmarra Rates Ulmarra Council Increases Rates

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 5

Ulmarra Municipal Council at yesterday's meeting adopted the estimates for 1950, which recommended an increase of seven-eighths of a penny in the general rate on the unimproved capital value for…

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Ulmarra Council Decides Against Sewerage Survey

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 5

A notice of motion by Ald. H. V. D. Baret at yesterday's meeting of the Ulmarra Municipal Council that steps be…

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Weewn and Shire Prosecutionss

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 9

Dorrigo Shire Noxious Woods Inspector (Mr. I. W. Towell) has recommended to Council that severe action be taken…

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Infectious Diseases In Dorrigo Shire

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

In his report to the Shire Council meeting on Wednesday the Health Inspector. Mr. N. Fitzptrick, stated that one case of…

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Big Additions to Shire Roads Plant

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

Dorrigo Shire Council, on Wednesday, decided to make substantial additions to its road making plant. The aggregated cost of the new units will…

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