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

Council & local affairs, 1894

323 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 17

A Municipal Council in Difficulties

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1894 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday—The Lambton Municipal Council are in difficulties, in consequence of their inability to meet their engagements with the bank, and the officials of the latter have notified their…

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Tall Municipal Officers

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 2

UNDER this heading a correspondent makes a few suggestions regarding the physique of Municipal Officers. We may ad that the pone belong to our correspondent—we do not…

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Municipal Election

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 2

THE public nominations of candidates for the extraordinary vacancy in the Borough Council, caused by the resignation of Alderman Heeley took place on Tuesday. The Mayor, Mr. W. J,…

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Mr. Charrington and the Trades Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1894 · page 4

Mr. Charrington, the ex-treasurer of the London Dockers' Union, and who sacrificed for the cause of temperance an interest in a brewery worth a million of money, paid a visit to the Sydney Trades Hall on…

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Municipal Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 2

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

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Borough Council. Regular Meeting

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 2

THE regular fortnightly meeting of the Goulburn Borough Council was held at the Council Chambers last evening. Present: The Mayor (Alderman O'Brien),…

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The Lady Mayor and Garrulity. Application of the Cloture

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 3

MRS. YATES, the lady Mayer of the now famous borough of Onehunga, is evidently determined to put a stopper on the too garrulons tongue of the average…

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A Subsidy on Rates. Deputation From Municipalities. Sydney, Friday, 7.10 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 5

A DEPUTATION from the various municipalities of the colony waited upon the Premier to-day, and asked for a special subsidy of ten shillings in the pound on the rates of last…

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Municipal Rates and Accounts

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 2

JUST now the Goulburn Borough Council are suing right and left for arrears of municipal rates. No one would have aright to grumble at this if the real…

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Municipal Valuation

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 March 1894 · page 2

THE Braidwood Dispatch says:—The advertisement calling tenders for two Valuators for the Braidwood Municipal Council requires the Valuators to act…

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Borough Council

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 March 1894 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held on Thursday night. Present: The Mayor (Mr. W. J. Hills) Aldermen Cranfield, Forsythe, Hourn, Mackenzie, Taylor,…

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Municipal Election

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 March 1894 · page 3

AN election to poll the extraordinary vacancy in the Borough Council caused by the retirement of Alderman Heeley took place on Friday. The candidates nominated were four, and considerable…

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Municipal By-laws. to the Editor of the Goulburn Herald

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 March 1894 · page 2

SIR,—I should like our esteemed Mayor, of one of the lesser lights of the Council, to translate the following by-law, as, if it means what it says, the recent appointment of…

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Privy Council Appeal. London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 March 1894 · page 7

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council gave its decision in the appeal case West Australian Land Company v. Forrest, on Saturday. The Committee held that the company's right of selection includes…

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Protestant Alliance Friendly Society. Annual Session of the Grand Council

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1894 · page 2

The twenty.first annual session of the Grand Council of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia was opened yesterday in the Protestant Hall, Sydney. Bro. J. Wheeler,…

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Municipal Election

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 March 1894 · page 7

THE official declaration of the previous day’s polling for the election of an alderman to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman Hecley, took place on Saturday…

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Municipal Retrenchment

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 March 1894 · page 4

AT a meeting of the Leichhardt council it was determined that the council clerk and treasurer's salary should be reduced from £260 to £220 per annum; the assistant council clerk's from £104 to…

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Municipal Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 March 1894 · page 2
Also in The Yass Courier

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the Burrowa Municipal Council was build in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, present: The Mayor (Alderman…

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The Legislative Council. No Fresh Appoinments to Be Made. Sydney, Monday, 7.10 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 March 1894 · page 3

THE statement that the Government contemplates appointing eleven gentlemen to the Legislative Council is denied…

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