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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1954

446 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 23

Invasion Of Guatemala Emergency Meeting Of Security Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday.--The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting in New York at 5 a.m. Monday (Sydney time), to consider the Guatemalan situation…

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Correspondence Comment At Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

An alderman who complained at last night's meeting of Grafton City Council that a letter handed in…

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Council Approves Chicken Farm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 3

Grafton City Council last night approved an application for the use of land in Milton street for chicken farming. The Town Planner, Mr. G…

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Harwood Council Declines Change In Meetings

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 4

MACLEAN.—In accordance with a notice of motion, Cr. F. J. Phillips moved that Harwood Shire…

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Council is Critical of Flood Damage Assessment

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

Dorrigo Shire Council was very critical of the methods adopted by the Department of Public Works for assessment of flood damage. Council received £7630 after the February floods which…

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Clash In Security Council Session Russia Vetoes Move; Warned By America

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.--Soviet Russia last night vetoed a move to refer the anti-Commmunist invasion of Guatemala to the organisation of American States--and was warned by the chief United States delegate to the United Nations, Mr…

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Harwood Shire Hard Hit By Flood

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 4

MACLEAN, Tuesday.--The Minister for Local Government and Public Works has been informed that the farming areas in Harwood Shire were more…

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Shire President Objects To Town Plan Remark

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 2

COFFS HARBOUR, Tues.--Cr. W. H. Bailey, President of Dorrigo Shire Council, to-day took strong…

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State Grant To Cancer Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The State Government has granted £30,000 to the Cancer Council for education and research into the causes and treatment of…

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Boos And Catcalls At Labor Council Meeting

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--A hostile demonstration by rank and file members of metropolitan powerhouses was staged in the Sydney Trades Hall to-night at the end of the Labor Council meeting…

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Anzus Defence Council Meeting

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Sunday.--The three nation Anzus Defence Council will meet in Washington next Wednesday, the White House announced to-day…

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Westlawn Committee Attacks Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 3

Alleged inactivity on the part of the Grafton City Council was the topic of heated discussion at last night's meeting of the West Grafton Improvement…

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Convent School Children Visit Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 3

Twenty-five bright eyed youngsters attended the meeting of the South Grafton Municipal Council…

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Complaint By Alderman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 5

Ald. M. V. Durrington made a serious complaint at South Grafton Municipal Council on Monday night,…

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Allocation By Loan Council

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed. -- Three States will have less money for Governmental works, including housing,…

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Shire Concern At Drainage

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 4

Concern was expressed at yesterday s meeting of the Orara Shire Council about drainage at Housing Commission homes facing the Armidale road…

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Taxation Dept. Officers In Dorrigo Shire

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 3

In August, 1953, officers of the Taxation Department visited various country centres in New South Wales to discuss…

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Lismore Council Appeal Upheld

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The Full Bench of the Supreme Court to-day quashed a £5000 damages verdict…

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Counity Council Adopts Increased [?]

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 4

A new [?] [?] providing for incresed charges was [?] by the [?] Rivers country [?]…

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