Rush to Pay Overdue Council Rates
Ratepayers thronged into the Town Hall today to make last-minute payments or arrangements, and thus avoid the receipt pf summonses for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1940
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Labor Council And Right To Strike
SYDNEY, Friday. —The N.S.W. Trades and Labor Council has passed a resolution disapproving the declaration of the Advisory War Council de…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ballot for Mayor
Candidates for Mayor at the Mayoral ballot, which commences tomorrow at the Assemble office, are Messrs. P. Rowe and E. J. Barnes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Notes
The regular monthly meeting of Council was held on Thursday night in the Council Chambers Present were. The mayor (Ald E…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Work In Bagot Street
Work on the Improvement of the Bagot Street area is nearing completion. It ls expected that the whole of the work being done in this section…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ald. P. Rowe Mayor for Third Time
For the third time within 18 months Alderman P. J. F. Rowe has been elected Mayor. Voting for the position closed late yesterday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arrears of Rates Council Will Collect
THE City Council's financial position is still unsatisfactory, and to improve the position Council officials are determined to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australians In N.Z. Labor Council to Discuss Detention Sydney
FOLLOWING the refusal of the New Zealand Government to allow Australians to leave the Dominion, similar action has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yass Council Causes Stir Mass Resignation Of Aldermen SYDNEY
EVERY member except one of the Yass Council resigned last night following the State Government's intention to postpone all shire and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Pressing For Overdue Rates
As the City Council is relying mainly on the payment of rates to provide finance until the new year it is essential that payments of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drainage in Williams St. City Council Plans
AS soon as the money for the work was made available by the Department of Works and Local Government the construction of a pipe drain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Aldermen Will Not Follow Lead Of Yass
There is no likelihood of the Broken Hill City Council following the lead of the aldermen of the Yass Council and resigning. in order to force the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council To Press For Overdue Rates
Since the threat was made in September to issue summonses against ratepayers who failed to pay arrears. the amounts received in rates and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Refuses To Permit Buses Off Routes
A motion to give bus proprietors permission to go off their routes on December 21 and December 22 for the purpose of taking passengers to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Destroys Bitumen Serious Loss By City Council
SEVERAL hundred gallons of bitumen and a wood and iron building housing the City Council's bitumen melting plant were destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council's Drive to Collect Rates Necessary for Wages Due in New Year
ONLY a concerted rate collecting campaign and co-operation, by aldermen, individual staff heads and municipal employees would enable the Council to pay the wages accruing and certain necessary sundry creditors in the new year, the acting Town Clerk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discussions on Council Finances
While in Sydney Aldermen H. [?] Cleeland and H. C. Lunam, delegates to the Local Government Conference, and the Town Clerk (Mr. C. Crowley)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund Town Clerk Pays Tribute Following Inspection
TRIBUTES to the work carried out by the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund in Sydney were paid today by the Town Clerk (Mr. C. Crowley). Mr. Crowley, who returned last evening from Sydney, inspected a great deal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →City Council's Financial Problems Debts Could Be Met If 75 Per Cent of People Paid Dues
IF the City Council could collect even 75 percent of the arrears of rates and sanitary charges it would be in a position to pay off the whole of the bank overdraft and amounts owing to sundry creditors, said the Town Clerk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Plans Work Start Likely Before Christmas
PLANS were now being prepared for the works which would absorb the balance of the money—£712—due to the City Council from the…
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