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Broken Hill & the Far West · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1912

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The Mayoral Wrangle. Independent Aldermen Fined for Leaving a Special Meeting

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 3

At last night's meeting of the City Council, following the reading of the minutes of the special meeting called for the purpose of electing a Mayor…

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City Council the Monthly Meeting

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the City Council was held in the Council Chaulabers last night when there were resent, the Mayor (Aldermon T. G…

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Alarming Health Report Insanitary Condition of Broken Hill. Sensational Statements by the Medical Officer of Health. the City in a Filthy Condition. Wholesale Condemnation of the Council. Appalling State of Things in the Centre of the City. Report 'Adopted in Silence by the Council

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 1

The annual report of the medical officer of health, Dr. J.F. Bartley, was submitted to the meeting of the City Council last night. It was as…

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Municipal Employees Action. Cutters in Front of Some Hotels I" Ns Wept

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 February 1912 · page 2

TI1 action of thc Municipal Council's street cleaners in carefully clean-1 iii' thc nutters in front ol' all hotels, other than those coiK'erned in tho…

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The City Mayorless. Alderman Marks's Term Expired. No Appointment Yet Made

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

No word regarding the appointment by the Governor of a successor to the Mayor of Broken Hill (Alderman T. G. Marks), has been received by Mr. J…

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The New Mayor. No News of the Appointment. Mr. Arthur Griffith Communicated With

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 8

The town clerk, Mr. J. X. Jones, expected that this morning's mail would ring nows of tho Governor's appointment of the new mayor of Broken Hill…

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Threatened Strike. Adelaide City Council Carters. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 6

The carters in the employment of the City Council have intimated that unless their request for an increase of 1/6 a day in the amount paid to them is…

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State Parliament. Three Railway Dills Presented. Sydney, Friday. Legislative Council

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

In the Legislative Council the Australian Gaslight Company's Bill, on the motion of Mr. O'Connor, was referred to a Select Committee for…

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The Vacancy on the Council. a Labor Candidate Selected. No Election Likely

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

Consequent on the difference between the Labor and Independent aldermen of the City Council over the election of a Mayor and his annual allowance, a…

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The City's Mayor. Appointment to Be Made Next Week. Reply From the Minister for Works

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 4

Mr. J. N. Jonas, the town clerk, yesterday evening received a telegram from Mr. Arthur Griffith (Minister for Public Works), stating that the…

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Municipal Election. the Labor Candidate

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 March 1912 · page 5

The Barrier District Assembly of the P.L.L. originally selected Mr. T. H. Hogan as the Labor candidate for the vacancy in the City Council caused by…

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City Council By-election. an Independent in the Field. Mr. Robert Correll to Be Nominated

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 4

The selected Labor candidate. Mr Thomas Hynes is not to be allowed to take the seat at the Council table rendered vacant by the resignation of…

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Municipal By-election. Declaration of Nominations

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

In accordante wita the provisions of the Local Governent Act. Alderman Marks, the officer appointed to conduct the election of an alderman in the…

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Barrier Miner. Wednesday, March 6, 1912. Broken Hill and the New Mayor

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 4

BROKEN HILL had not to remain long without a Mayor. No one seems to have been seriously inconvenienced during the short period that the city…

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Health of the City. Disinfecting Machines. to Be Instated by the Council

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 8

At the last meeting of the City Council a recommendation from the health committee for the purchase of 16 safeguard disinfecting machines at a cost…

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The Municipal Vacancy. Polling Day Pixed for Tuesday Next

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 4

The polling in connection with the election of an alderman to All the vacancy in the Council caused by the resignation of Mr. F. W. Wickes, will…

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The Education Bill and the Free Church Council. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 2

The Free Church Council, notwithstanding the Prime Minister's assurance that the Education Bill will be introduced at the next session of…

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State Parliament. Industrial Arbitration Bill. Preference to Unionists Defeated by Legislative Council. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 3

Both Houses sat yesterday. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. In the Legislative Council bills to sanction the construction of railways…

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Victorian Unionists' Proposal Create a Tribunal to Decide When Strike Justified. Secretary of Sydney Labor Council on the Position. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 2

Yesterday the secretary of the Trades and Labor Council referring to the proposal by the Victorian unionists to form a representative body in order to decide…

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Seven Times Mayor. Minlature Man's Long Record

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 2

The declaration of the poll in connection with the voting for the Tiny Town Mayoralty, look place at the Exhibition Building Sydney the other…

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