City Council Respects Wish Of Local A.L.P. 1938 Time-table Is to Operate on R. Town Bus Services for 6 Months Traffic Inspector Davey Gives Facts to Aldermen
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 5
Council respected the wish of the B.D.A.A.L.P. at the special meeting held last night to discuss the Railway Town bus service Adopting the recommendation from the Assembly Council decided to revert to the 1938 time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Darling 9ft. Deep At Wilcannia Mayor Expresses Fear Stream Will Soon Be Dry
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 2
ALTHOUGH the Darling is running 9ft. deep at [?] [?] I fear it will soon dry up again if there is no more rain on the upper reaches of the river said the Mayor of Wilcannia (Mr. E. C. Young), who arrived on Broken Hill today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombshell for Council Mr. Davey Seeks To End His Traffic Work
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 4
CHIEF Traffic Inspector Mr. S. J. J. Davey caused a sensation at last night's special Council meeting when he asked to be relieved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weirs Needed All Darling Towns Mayor of Wilcannia Gives Views
Barrier Miner · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 3
WEIRS are needed by all the main towns along the Darling River, and until they are built the town's will continue to experience water shortages. A statement to this effect was made by the Mayor of Wilcannia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Unconstitutional Act by the City Council
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 1
ACCORDING to people who ha ve a knowledge of Local Government Ordinances Council has acted unconstitutionally in countermanding a resolution concerning the Railway. Town bus service and carrying another motion without having given due…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preparing to Meet Peak Loading Council. Pushing Ahead with New Plant
Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 1
FOUNDATION work for the first of the three generating units to be erected atthe City Council's electricitywarka, at Galena (street, is being pushed ahead. It should be completed by the end of next week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Pars
Western Grazier · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 2
Last Thursday week the monthly meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chambers. Present were the Mayor, Mr. E. C. Young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whatour Council Is Doing
Barrier Miner · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 4
THERE was a quorum only— seven aldcrmen—at the monthly meeting of the City Council held last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council's Debit Balance Explanation By Town Clerk; Overdue Charges
Barrier Miner · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 3
COUNCIL'S debit balance is £32,025 and the financial statement presented at the monthly meeting held last night showed an estimated debit balance at the end of 1940 of £35,223…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council's Quarry To Be Reopened Report to Be Made on New Site
Barrier Miner · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 4
COUNCIL'S quarry will be reopened after having been closed since October. The decision was reached at the monthly meeting of Council held last night. Every precaution will be taken and an inspection of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme War Council Close Anglo-French Co-operation; Future Line Of Action (Special to "The Miner.")
Barrier Miner · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 1
THE Supreme War Council of the Allies at its meeting in London today agreed to the following solemn declaration:— (1) The Governments of Great Britain and France mutually…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finland's Defeat Galls for Urgent Problems For Meeting Of War Council (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, March 28
Barrier Miner · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 3
THE sixth meeting of the Supreme War Council, held in London today, will probably prove the most important to date. The Allies had to make a fresh start as the defeat of Finland nullified some of their previous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Change In Russian 'Neutrality' Molotoff Informs Soviet Council Says That Allies Misunderstand (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, March 29
Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 3
RUSSIA would not change her policy of neutrality in the war between Germany and the Allies, the Foreign Minister (M. Molotoff) told a meeting of the Supreme Soviet Council held in Moscow today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Work Delay In Oxide Street Council Short of Screenings
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 1
APART from the delay in the re-surfacing work in Oxide Street caused by the lack of supplies of quarter inch screenings, the work has been held up further by the replacement of an old timber culvertnear Cobalt Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alderman and Mayor in Angry Scene
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 4
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Deputy Mayor of Erskinville Council (Ald. J. P. McCarthy) was suspended last night. He objected to council's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vandals Damage Council Lorries
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 1
Vandals who broke into a storage yard at 39 Blende Street, owned by the City Council, last night caused damage to a number of motor lorries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Municipal Employees' Picnic Fund
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 3
The Municipal Employees Picnic Fund will hold its annual meeting at the Town Hall tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock. The main business will be to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal Employees Help Coalies
Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 5
Followin the receipt of correspondence from the secretary of the W.I.U. (Mr. C. Vihall), members of the Municipal Employees Union,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mayor's Efforts for Unemployed
Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 3
When no reply waa received yesterday concerning the application for Government assistance for the unemployed wood scheme, the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weirs Badly Needed Wilcannia's Mayor On Position
Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 April 1940 · page 3
THE time will come when the Government will have to provide locks on these rivers," said the Mayor of Wilcannia (Mr. E. G. Young)…
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