Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Council & local affairs, all years

Broken Hill & the Far West · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1950

389 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 13 of 20

New Furniture For Council Chambers

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 1

New furniture will shortly replace the existing tables and chairs in the Broken Hill Council Chambers. Council received word yesterday that its…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

"Complaint of Armed Invasion" Formosa On S. Council Agenda

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 31 August 1950 · page 4

Lake Success, August 30.—The Security Council last night decided to put the Formosan issue on its agenda under the heading "Complaint of Armed Invasion."…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Guard for Lord Mayor

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 September 1950 · page 2

Sydney—Sydney's Lord Mayor (Alderman E. C. O'Dea), will have a police bodyguard when the city council meets on Monday. He has…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A.L.P. "Declares" Democratic Rights Council Communist Party Auxiliary

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 2 September 1950 · page 1

Sydney, September 1.—The A.L.P. Executive tonight decided to declare the Democratic Rights Council to be a Communist Party auxiliary. This decision…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Famous Cellist For Arts Council Concert

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 3

Internationally famed cellist, Mist Peers Coetmore, is to be the celebrity artist at an an Arts Council Concert to be presented at the Town Hall on Wednesday, October…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Council Elections In December

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 5

The three yearly election of aldermen comes due in December, the Town Clerk (Mr. C. Crowley) pointed out yesterday. Nominations must be in the hands of the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Council Baths

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 12

Mr. S. J. J. Davey, chief health officer, expects that the municipal baths will be opened about October 1…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Conscription Labor Council's Attitude Sought

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1

Melbourne, September 7.—A.C.T.U. State branches are to be asked whether the council's opposition to conscription should end. The executive of the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Strike of Council Men Is Settled

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 2

City Council sanitary and garbage employees resumed work today alter a one-day strike. They ceased work yesterday in…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Soviet's Counter on Plane Incident U.S. Refuses To Accept Note Of Protest Matter Accepted As Part of Security Council's Agenda

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1

Lake Success, September 7:—Russia has charged in a note of protest that eleven American fighters operating off Korea on Monday shot down an unarmed Soviet twin-engine bomber with the loss of three Russian airmen. The note—handed to…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Soviet Beaten In Security Council

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 9 September 1950 · page 4

Lake Success, September 8.—The United Nations Security Council last night rejected Soviet resolutions calling on it to order the U.S. Air Force to cease…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Protestant Churches Should Co-operate Says Council Of Churches Delegate

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 9 September 1950 · page 5

Sydney, September 8.—Protestant churches of the world should co-operate and work together without being hindered by the problem of theological unity, the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Lord Mayor at Union Congress

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 9

Hobart.—Representatives of the Shop Assistants' Union are today considering a proposed Australiawide move o close shops on…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

City Council Election

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 1

The triennial election of aldermen to the City Council will be held in December. Nominations must be in the hands of the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

The Barrier Miner Monday, September 11, 1950. Council Weaves a Tangled Web

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 4

ONCE more Broken Hill has been given a lesson in inability to handle its employees satisfactorily—except to them. An effort of the chief health inspector (Mr. S. J. J. Davey) to introduce a little discipline has been…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Shire Record

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 3

Port Fairy (Vic).—The Belfast Shire has established what the shire secretary believes to be a record for the Commonwealth…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Council Election

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 6

The triennial election of aldermen to the City Council will be held in December. Nominations close at 5 p.m. on November 15. If an election is necessary…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Broken Hill City Council 50-Cycle Changeover Cost of conversion or replacement of apparatus oh consumers' premises

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 2

As Council is now proceeding with the change-over to 50 cycles, the following information regarding the responsibility for the cost of the work carried out on…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

State Control of Road Transport Appeal To Privy Council

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 2

Adelaide, September 14.—Mr. Francis McCarter, Glenelg merchant carrier, said yesterday that nearly £6,000 had been subscribed (£2,000 by manufacturing…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Security Council Meeting At Lake Success

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 16 September 1950 · page 1

Meeting at its headquarters at Lake Sucess, New York, the United Nations Security Council rejected by a vote of 8 to 3 the ruling by USSR Delegate Jacob A. Malik, President of the Council for the month of August, that the Chinese Nationalist Government's delegate was not entitled to sit in the Council. The photograph shows the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →