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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1953

503 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 26

On Way To Peace Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 May 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Senator William Morrow refused to discuss his coming visit to iron curtain…

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Town Clerk Warns Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 May 1953 · page 4

A warning that council should fully appreciate which a motion entailed before was carried was given…

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Shire Interest In Regional Library

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 4

Interest in the proposed regional library for the Clarence district was expressed at yesterday's…

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Ulmarra Council Tree Planting

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 2

Wives of Ulmarra Municipal Council aldermen will be asked to plant trees in the tree planting ceremony…

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Skeleton in Shire Council's Cupboard

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 1

A skeleton was aroused from its slumbers in the cupboard of Dorrigo Shire Council at Wednesday's meeting. A…

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Chamber Not Competent to Deal with Shire Council's Figures

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 3

The figures regarding the Shire Council administration and engineering costs did not convey much information to the meeting of Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce. After a lengthy discussion on the…

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Realism And Propaganda At Loan Council

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 2

THE meeting of the Loan Council this week was strangely unlike its predecessors of recent years. The usual wrangling was not present. That…

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Council Approves Half Holiday For American Football Match

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 1

Dorrigo Shire Council has approved of a half holiday for the Rugby League Football match to be played at Breisford Park on Wednesday June 17, between the visiting American team and a team chosen to reepresent the…

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New Grader for Harwood Shire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 3

MACLEAN, Mon.--Harwood Shire Council to-day took delivery of a new patrol grader from…

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Grant to Shire for Weed Eradication

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 8

Advice has been received by Dorrigo Shire Council that the Minister for Local Government, Mr J. B. Renshaw, has approved…

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Council Apology For Power Disconnection

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 4

The Northern Rivers County Council decided in Grafton yesterday to apologise to an East Ballina consumer for the disconnection of his supply after he had…

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Reinstatement Of County Council Employee Sought

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 4

Legal submissions on the jurisdiction of the Industrial Commission to hear an application for the…

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Realism At The Loan Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 May 1953 · page 2

Sir,--If the Federal Treasurer's attitude at the Loan Council was realistic, we must assume that the…

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Acting N.S.W. Premier Urges Loan Council Reconstitution

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Acting New South Wales Premier, Mr. Heffron, to-day advocated reconstitution of the Loan Council "on a more equitable basis"…

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Grant to Shire for Weed Eradication

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 8

Advice has been received by Dorrigo Shire Council that the Minister for Local Government. Mr. J. B. Renshaw, has…

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Council Approves New Baths Project

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 June 1953 · page 3

Grafton City Council last night approved proposals for the construction of an Olympic swimming pool in Westward Park, and to take all possible steps to further the project…

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Council's Stand on Pubuc Holidays

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1953 · page 4

Mr. W. Tomlinson, of Coffs Harbour, writes to the Editor: "Please permit me a few lines to say a few things about a few…

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Council Protests on Aerodrome

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 June 1953 · page 6

Grafton City Council will protest to the Civil Aviation Department on the removal of the groundsman from the…

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Cheers for Dorrigo Shire Council

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 3

There were cheers from all present at the meeting of Coffs Harbour branch of the Country Women's Association when it was announced that Dorrigo Shire Council intended to honour the promise made by a former…

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Honour for Shire President and Shire Clerk

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 1

Councillor W. H. Bailey, president of Darrigo Shire Council, and Mr. Ray E. Smith. Shire Cleric, hare been…

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