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Broken Hill & the Far West · Council & local affairs
336 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 17
SIR,—While sympathising wita yon in your efforbs to hide the mental defects of our Mayor, in justice to myself I must ask you to publish the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is a fair matter for argument whether it is not better to hold the meetings of the municipal council in the afternoons instead of in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT is the most convenient time for the municipal council meetings? Convenient to whom? The aldermen? Or the ratepayers as well? The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âAlthough I don't consider it fair or just for ratepayers to be continually annoying and pestering the aldermen on every little frivolous matter (as it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âIt appears to me you have been barkiog up the wrong tree, as all hours, in a place like this, where men work shifts, are pretty much the same…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A two-story brick building in Reidstreet, occupied as the council chambers and free public library, was totally destroyed by fire at an early…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,âReading the effusion of "Ratepayer," in your issue of Saturday's MINNNER, it struck me there is something radically wrong somewhere in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,âThe somewhat lengthy effusion of your correspondent, "G. J. Warren," in defence of Alderman Wright is scarcely worth noticing, as it is nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Waverley Council recently appointed a collector on commission to collect all rates in arrear. The opinion of the council's solicitor, however, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL meeting of the municipal council is to be held this afternoon to consider the assessments, the striking of a rate, the sanitation of the town,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL meeting of the municipal council was held at the Town Hall this afternoon. There were present the Mayor (Alderman Holdsworth), Alder…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,âIn a letter in your last night's issue signed "W. Harry" that gentleman gives his opinion that afternoon meetings of the council are the proper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly before 3 o'clock on Monday morning, the residents of Wilcannia were awakened from their peaceful clumbers by the loud clanging of the fire bell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The President announced that he had presented the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's speech adopted by the House to his Excellency, who had sent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL meeting of the municipal council was held at the Town Hall this afternoon. There were present the Mayor (Alderman Holdsworth),…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,âI was glad to see Mr. Warren's attempt to defend his chief. When Alderman Wright was elected to the council all the other aldermen appear to have become…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âThe lengths to which bitter partisanship will lead men is shown by the letters lately published in your columns, and adverse to Alderman Wright. In order to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âMr. Harry having thought fic through your columns to attach an exaggerated importance co some comparatively insignificant actions of mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. GEORGE PATTERSON, overeeer of works in the employ of the City Council, while out driving this morning in a sulky, met with a serious accident…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,âIn Friday's MINER my letter of the 26th instant is taken exception to by " Another Ratepayer," who does not, like myself and my esteemed friend…
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