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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1953

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Former Mayor Re-Elected

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--The former Mayor of Leichhardt, Mr. E. C. Erwin, who resigned last month following…

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Pride Expressed In Orara Shire

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

It was pleasing to hear councillors expressing pride of their own area, said the Shire President (Cr. D. J. Moloney), at yesterday's meeting of the Orara Shire Council…

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Commission Homes In Shire Area

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

THE Housing Commission of New South Wales is to build 16 cottages in the Orara Shire bordering on…

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1953 Programme For Orara Shire

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

The Department of Main Roads yesterday advised the Orara Shire Council that a programme of works costing £5630 had been approved for 1953. The council's contribution…

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Grant Works Considered By Council

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

A tentative works programme was adopted by the Orara Shire Council yesterday for submission to the…

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Mayor Defends Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 3

BROKEN HILL, Fri.--The Mayor of Broken Hill, Alderman W. Riddiford, declared to-day that there was less gambling and drinking in Broken Hill than in any…

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Big Loans For Rous Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 3

LISMORE, Mon. -- Loans [?]ounting to £225,000 have been promised in the current year to enable the…

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Cut In Grants To Shire

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 3

Nymboida Shire Council was yesterday advised of a grant of £12,585 from the Department of Mam Roads for the main and trunk roads maintenance and improvement…

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Council Asked To Deal With Ghost

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 2

COFFS HARBOUR, Thurs.--The Dorrigo Shire Council, already overburdened by problems of a serious nature,…

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Harwood Shire Spends £100,000

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 January 1953 · page 3

MACLEAN, Friday—Cr. John Ryan told the January meeting of the Harwood Shire Council that expenditure in 1952 was over £100,000--the highest in any year since the inception of the shire…

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Harwood Shire Fixes 1953 General Rate

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 3

MACLEAN, Saturday--Approval has been granted Harwood Shire Council to levy a general rate of 6¾d. in the £, instead of the prescribed limit of 7½d…

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Labour Move To Abolish Loan Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sat. -- The 20th Commonwealth conference of the Australian Labour Party, beginning in…

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Council Depot Damaged In Severe Storm

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 3

COPMANHURST Shire Council's plant depot near the Grafton boundary was damaged severely in a…

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Council Removes Suspension

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 6

Grafton City Council decided on Monday night that, although the result of the inquiry into the suspension of G. H. Attwater had upheld council's action, the suspension be…

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Council Seeks New Impounding Officer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 4

Grafton City Council is seeking a new impounding officer as a result of a decision made at Monday…

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Council To Act Against Tree Destroyers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 6

Persons who harm Grafton street trees will be dealt with severely in the future by Grafton City Council…

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Public Health Prosecution By Council

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 4

A number of public health matters were referred to yesterday's meeting of the Copmanhurst Shire Council…

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Bid To Abolish County Council

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 4

COPMANHURST Shire Council will inform the Tweed Shire Council that it does not intend to support a move to abolish the Richmond River County Council…

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Council Leave At Christmas

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 6

MACLEAN, Thurs.--In future the Maclean Town Clerk (Mr. G. W. Wann) and his assistant (Miss M. Peteskin) will take their annual leave at Christmas time, when the…

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Council Asked to Deal with Ghost

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 6

The Dorrigo Shire Council, already overburdened by problems of a serious nature, has now been asked to contend with a ghost. A woman at Lowanna has…

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