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Broken Hill & the Far West · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1942

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Special Meeting of City Council

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 3

To consider the draft estimates and to fix the rates for 1942 a special meeting of the City Council will be held on January 8. The estimates were…

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Barrier Miner Friday, January 2, 1942. Demand for an Empire War Council

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 January 1942 · page 2

GROWING support for an Empire War Council is based on the belief that the problems of the conflict are so diverse and complex as…

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Council to Consider Estimates

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 1

Council estimates for the year 1942 will be considered at a special meeting of the City Council to be held tomorrow night in the Council…

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Council Asks Man Not to Enlist

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 1

PORT PIRIE, Thursday.—The inspector of Port Pirie Council (Mr. M. M. Bishop) wants to join the A.I.F., but the council has asked him…

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Sir Earle Page On Allied War Council LONDON, January 6

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 January 1942 · page 3

SIR Earle Page, Australian M.H.R., in a speech said that, although military action was very urgent, the formulation and application of a plan…

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No Rate Increases By Council; The Estimates

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

THERE will be no increase in the City Council rates for 1942. Last night's special meeting of the Council adopted the draft estimates prepared by the Town Clerk (Lieut. C. Crowley). Lieut. Crowley in his report told alderm en that even if the Council kept…

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Big Drive For Aluminium City Council To Co-operate

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

BROKEN Hill has been asked, to join in the Commonwealth drive for the recovery of aluminium scrap for defence needs. The Mayor (Ald…

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A.R.P. Warden Stewart Keen To Carry On Mayor Supports Him

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 1

GIVEN the support of the Broken Hill people, Fireman J. H. Stewart, Deputy Chief Warden, will continue with his A.R.P. activities even if it means resigning from the Fire Brigade…

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Sydney Council Faces Huge Deficit

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 January 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Although, due to electricity restrictions and expenditure on air raid precautions Sydney County Council faces a…

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First Council Meeting for 1942

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 January 1942 · page 2

The first meeting of the City Council for 1042 will be held tomorrow night in the Council Chambers. It will be the third meeting…

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Mayor Rowe Supports Woodcarters

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 4

"Wood is an essential commodity to Broken Hill and should the time arrive when petrol is not available to the woodcarter it would be a sorry…

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Board May Replace Supply Council

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 4

LONDON, January 21.—Sir Alexander Roger, leader of the British Supply Mission to India in 1940-41, in a letter to the "Times" strongly…

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Comments Of Reader[?]s Another City Council Appointment

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 2

To the Editor, Sir.— It will be interesting to see if our newly-constituted civic overlords have the brazen audacity us the old gang…

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Council Considers Serious Water Position

Western Grazier · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 1

At a special meeting of the Council held in the Council Chambers on Monday the following aldermen were present: Ald. E. C. Young (Mayor)…

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Council Foresees Supplies Shortage Committee Formed

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 January 1942 · page 1

TO ensure that there is no shortage of essential commodities because of the war, a local committee is to be formed to investigate the position in Broken Hill. This decision was made at a meeting of the City Council held last night…

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Industrial Council Meeting Fails

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 January 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—In a report sent to the Minister for Labor (Mr. Ward) trades union representatives on the industrial Relations Council have…

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Flan to End N Deadlock. Industrial Council Inactive

Barrier Miner · Saturday 24 January 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Hope that, in view of the increased gravity of the war situation, employers' representativcs would reconsiders their…

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Industrial Relations Council Fails

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday.—The Minister for Labor (Mr. Ward) declared yesterday that so far ns he was concerned the Industrial Relations…

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Sarawak Council in Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. T. Corson, a member of the Sarawak Supreme Council, which has been granted permission by the Commonwealth…

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Churchill Announces Pacific Council (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, January 27

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 4

THE establishment of a Pacific Council in London, comprising representatives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the Dutch East Indies was outlined by the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in the House of…

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