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

Council & local affairs, 1893

228 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 10 of 12

Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 5

THE usual meeting of the Council was held on Thursday night. Present—the Mayor, Aldermen O'Brien, Hawkins, Gillespie, Lansdowne, Read, McAlister, Richardson, McShane, and Roberts…

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The Municipal Finances. General Retrencement.—a New Loan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 4

THE financial condition of the Council, which has been growing steadily worse for some time, has reached a climax, and at the present time the municipality is passing through a crisis such as…

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City Council. the Ex-city-solicitor. a Warrant Issued

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 October 1893 · page 2

A meeting of the finance committee of the City Council was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. W. P. Manning) presided, and there were present…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 2

THURSDAY next, Prince of Wales' birthday, being a public holiday, the regular meeting of the borough council, which fails on that evening, will be held on the previous…

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Municipal Retrenchment

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 2

IN accordance with the recommendation of the finance committee adopted at the meeting of the borough council on 26th October, the workmen employed in the borough have been…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 November 1893 · page 2

THE regular meeting of the Council will be held to-morrow evening on account of Thursday being a holiday…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 November 1893 · page 3

THE regular meeting of the borough council was appointed for this evening, as to-morrow will be a public holiday, but as a quorum (six) did not attend the meeting lapsed…

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Yass Municipal Council

The Yass Courier · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Yass Municipal Council was held on Tuesday evening last. Present-- the Mayor, and Aldermen McCallum, G. Thomson. Callaghan, Nichols and…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 November 1893 · page 2

THE regular meeting of the borough council was appointed for Wednesday evening, as Thursday, the usual day of meeting, was a public holiday; but as a quorum…

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Municipal Finances

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 November 1893 · page 2

AT the regular meeting of the Goulburn borough council on 26th October last a letter was read from the crown solicitor, intimating that unless a sum of £8000 1/,…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 2

THE meeting of the Council convened for Wednesday evening—Thursday being a public holiday—lapsed for lack of a quorum. At 8 o'clock those present were Aldermen Lansdowne, Read,…

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The Finances of the Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 2

THE Finance Committee of the Council have prepared a report on the matter of the loan and the demand of the Government for the payment of £8000 in respect to the waterworks. The committee…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 3 p.m. Death of Alderman Playfair

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 November 1893 · page 3

ALDERMAN THOMAS PLAYFAIR, ex-mayor of Sydney and ex-member of parliament, died this morning from rheumatic gout, aged sixty-two. The deceased had been ailing for…

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Municipal Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 November 1893 · page 2

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Burrowa Municipal Council was held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman…

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Borough Council. Regular Meeting

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 November 1893 · page 3

THE borough council met last evening and transacted the business of the meeting which lapsed on Wednesday, 8th instant, for want of a quorum; present, Aldermen Lansdowne…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 4

THURSDAY, 9th instant, being a public holiday the ordinary meeting of the Council was to have been held on the preceding Wednesday night, but lapsed for wont of a quorum. The meeting was held on…

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The Unemployed and the Lord Mayor of London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 2

FROM a letter in the Sydney Herald it would appear that the meeting at which it was stated it was decided to cable to the Lord Mayor of London for support for the unemployed was never held. Two…

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The Unemployed Question.—The Lord Mayor of London to be Cabled to

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 6

A MEETING of delegates from the Labour Conference recently held in Sydney was held on Wednesday night in the Temperance Hall; Mr. Wilson in the chair. The chairman explained that the…

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Borough Council

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 November 1893 · page 3

SOME inaccuracies occur in the answers to questions given in the report of Thursday's meeting of the borough council. The proportion of salaries and offices expenses to the…

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The Recent Council Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 November 1893 · page 2

THE Town Clerk informs us that some of the answers to the questions asked by the Mayor, as reported in last Saturday's Post, were incorrectly stated. We took both questions and answers from…

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