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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1889

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The Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 13 April 1889 · page 3

MET on Thursday evening; present, the Mayor and Aldermen Clifford, Richardson, Wombey, Gillespie, Ball, Roberts, Mc Alister, Howard, Macgraw, Conroy…

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Supervision of Council Work

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 April 1889 · page 4

AT the meeting of the Council on Thursday evening Alderman Conroy asked if any person had been officially appointed to superintend the construction of the culvert now being built in…

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The Council and Plumbers' Licenses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 April 1889 · page 4

THE old trouble as to the granting of plumbers' licenses without any recommendations in support cropped up once more at the Council meeting last evening, when Mr. Cahir's adjourned…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1889 · page 2

THE fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Clumber on Thursday evening. The Mayor and Aldermen Regan, Cohen, Cranfield, Mackenzie, Hourn, Taylor, Wright, and…

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Municipal Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 April 1889 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Burrowa Municipal Council was held in the reading-room of the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday evening. Present: The…

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Electric Lighting Rates. Special Meeting of Aldermen

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Chamber on Tuesday evening for the purpose of fixing the rates to be charged for street and house lightning. The Mayor and Aldermen…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 April 1889 · page 2

THE Mayor has given notice of the following motion for this evening—"That from and after this date every application for a plumber's license shall be reported upon by the Water Inspector…

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Municipal Loan. the Council’s Indebtedness

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 2

IN the Borough Council on Thursday evening the Finance Committee submitted the following special report:— Your committee are of opinion that steps should be…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

THE ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Chamber on Thursday evening. The Mayor and Aldermen Rogan, Cohen, Wright, Hourn, Clanfield, Slatyer and…

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The Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 3

MET on Thursday evening; present—the Mayor, and Aldermen Clifford, Hawkins, Wombey, Ball, Roberts, McAlister, Macgraw, Conroy, and Howard. Francis-street, Garfield.—Alderman Ball presented…

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Municipal Economy

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 2

THE Finance Committee of the Borough Council seem at last to have awakened to the fact that unless economy is practised in some directions the borough will soon be landed in a slough of…

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Municipal Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 May 1889 · page 2

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Barrows Municipal Council was held in the reading-room of the Mechanics Institute on Tuesday evening. Present: The…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 May 1889 · page 2

Notice has been given of the following motions for this evening:—By Alderman Hawkins: That three hundred and twenty-five trees be planted this season; fifty in Victoria Park; one…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 2

THE ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Council was held on;. Thursday evening. Present—The Mayor (Alderman Forsythe), with Aldermen Taylor, Rogan, Wright, and Slatyer. The…

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The Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 3

MET on Thursday evening: present, Aldermen Gillespie (in the chair), Clifford, Hawkins, Womb[?]y, Ball, Howard, Richardson, Conroy, and Macgraw. Joshua-street.—Alderman Wombey presented a…

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Goulburn Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 3

THE usual fortnightly meeting was held on Thursday evening last. There were present—Aldermen Gillespie (in the chair), Clifford, Hawkins, Ball, Howard, Richardson, Wombey,…

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The Municipal Loan. Nisbet and Barnes Again to the Fore

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 2

IN the Borough Council on Thursday evening the contents of a letter, received from Messrs. Nisbet and Barnes, caused a sardonic smile to suffuse tho countenances of the alder[?], who doubtless had…

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Municipal Movements and Comments on the Councils

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 May 1889 · page 2

There is says the Each, a tendency on the part many borough councils to devote a portion of their tune to matters which are not municipal and with which, strictly spooking, aldermen have,…

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Goulburn Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 May 1889 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Borough Council wan held lest evening in the Town Hall. There were present—The Mayor and Aldermen Clifford, Hawkins, Macgraw, McAlister, Richardson,…

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