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Broken Hill & the Far West · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1945

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Council Support For Nationalised Airways

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 5

A MOTION expressing support of th e nationalise airways was pissed night. The matter came up when a letter…

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City Council Overdraft Cause s Worry

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 5

THE City Council's overdraft at the Commonwealth Bank now amounts to £22.783/5/ The bank has written to Council expressing…

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Monthly Council Meeting Phones At Station Wanted

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 1

The monthly meeting of the City Council was held last night. in the Mayor's absence Alderman W. Riddiford president, Others present were Aldermen…

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Experts Reveal Defects in Engines at Council Power Plant Improvements Suggested

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 4

ONLY one of the engines at the City Council power house can be described as being in reasonable working order, according to the special report on the electrical undertaking prepared by Messrs. H. Sugars and T. R. Palmer. The…

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Mayor Returns

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

The Mayor [?] by Monday night's [?] Sydney While in Sydney the [?] with the City Engineer [?]…

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Council Increases Rate For Electric Power

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 5

FURTHER increases in electrical supply rates, recommended by the Town Clerk (Mr. C. Crowley), were approved at a special meeting of Council last night. The Commonwealth Savings Bank had asked Council to…

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Council Adopts Report of Experts on Electricity Plant

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 4

THE special report prepared by Messrs. Sugars and Palmer on the City Council Powerhouse, and which reveals that most of the engines are in a poor state of repair, was adopted at a special Council meeting last night…

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Council Considers Special Powerhouse Report Committee To Prepare Cost Of Renewing Equipment To Carry Peak Load

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 3

Last night the Council sat at a special meeting to consider the powerhouse report submitted by Messrs. Sugars and Palmer, Those present were the Mayor (Alderman Rowe), Aldermen Riddiford, Warren, Lunam, Mayson, Tampkins, Johnsen, Field, Edes,…

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Woman Alderman Fined

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 30 March 1945 · page 3

Mabel Maud Chambers, milk bar proprietress, an alderman of the Wagga municipality, and a member or the council's health committee, was fined £5 at…

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Repairs to Council Roads Grader at Work

Western Grazier · Friday 30 March 1945 · page 1

This week the power grader of the Department of Main Roods, Broken Hill, was engaged in grading all roads leading from the town to the municipal bound,…

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New Lord Mayor of Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 April 1945 · page 7

SYDNEY.—Mr. T. Malcolm Ritchie will succeed Aid. Neville Harding as Lord Mayor of Sydney as Provisional Federal Chairman of the Liberal…

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Council Electricity Plant

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 3

The committee appointed to consider the report of Messrs. Sugars and Palmer on the electricity plant met on Wednesday night, and they will report to the…

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Arrears Of Council Rates

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 7

A list of persons who have not as yet made arrangements for the payment of arrears of rates has been prepared ready for the issue of summoned. those owing…

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Barrier Industrial Council The Fortnightly Meeting

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 3

The fortnightly meeting of the Barrier Industrial Council was held last night, Mr. E. P. O'Neill presiding. Credential Accepted…

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Police Against Labor Council Affiliation

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 1

Sydney, April 17.—Supporting a nation at the N.S.W. Police Association conference today that the Association should not affiliation with the Labour Council,…

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Activities in & Abound Wilcannia Municipal Council Meeting MR. H. R. Hudson Appointed Town Clerk

Western Grazier · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 1

At the meeting of the Wilcannia Council held on Thursday of lost week, Mr H. R. Hudson was appointed to the position of Town Clerk, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. G. Lawrence. The decision to appoint Mr Hudson was almost…

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Dumbarton Oaks Denounced Dr. Evatt On Security Council Veto

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 3

From our war correspondent, Crayton Burns San Francisco, April 25.—A sensational attack upon certain "indefensible" aspects of the Dumbarton Oaks draft proposals for a World Security Council were made by Dr. Evatt immediately upon his arrival here…

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Council Meeting Points

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 1

AVARIETY of business came before the monthly meeting of the City Council last night. Aldermen had their longest meeting for some considerable time. The Deputy Mayor (Aid. W…

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City Council Finance

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 6

Reporting [?] the City Council on finance last night, Mr. Crowley, Town Clerk, showed that the overdraft in the Commonwealth Bank on account of the…

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Theft Of Council Property

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 3

Alderman Edes asked last night at the Council meeting whether anything had been done to catch the thieves who were so consistently stealing Council property…

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