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

Council & local affairs, 1942

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Fight To Save Kenmore City Council Action Alternative Plan Builders Promise to Give Full Aid

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 2

Strongly-worded protests against the projected summary removal of the whole of the patients and staff at the Kenmore Hospital, in order that it may be taken over by the Federal authorities within a month for the purpose of a military…

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Shire Council Engineer's Reports

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 1

The Engineer's report to Mulwaree Shire Council at its meeting on Thursday, on the subject of the proposed Improvement at Deep Causeway on…

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The Aldermen’s Budget

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 2

THE ATTITUDE of aldermen to the proposal that the Council should provide money for National Emergence Service work is rather…

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Producer Gas Plant Crookwell Shire Council’s Dilemma

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 1

The Crookwell Shire Council recently had a producer gas unit fitted to one of its petrol driven trucks but from reports tabled at the last…

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Shire Accounts

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 1

Accounts, having been examined and recommended by, the Finance Committee for confirmation were passed by the Mulwaree Shire…

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Mr. Tully Acts Mayor Gives Guarantee

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 2

The Minister for Lands, Mr. J. M. Tully, had an interview with Colonel McIntosh this morning and the whole of the…

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Shire Clerk in War Aid

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 6

Mr. John Williams, Shire Clerk to the Canobolas Council, left Orange for Melbourne to take up a position with the Defence Department. He…

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Request to Shire Evacuees From Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 1

The Shire of Sutherland addressed a letter to the Mulwaree shire Council, read at the meeting in Goulburn on Thursday, asking for information…

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Council Farms Grazing Rights

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 1

At the meeting of the Goulburn City Council on Thursday night, the Farm Committee, which had met during the afternoon, submitted a…

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N.E.S. WARDENS Mulwaree Shire's Activities

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 5

Mr. H. B. Darke, as Chief Warden of the Mulwaree Shire, wrote to the council on Thursday stating that in a circular letter received from the…

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VAPOURISERS Car To Be Fitted Council Decision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 1

There was a short discussion at the Goulburn City Council on Thursday night concerning, the use of vaporisers on motor…

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War Council Meets Devises New Line Of Strategy

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday: Unanimous agreement on a new system for the organisation of war strategy in areas of the south Pacific,…

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No Objection to Shorts Bowral Council's Decision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 4

The much discussed matter of soldiers appearing in the streets of Bowral in regulation shorts was officially before the Bowral Council at its…

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Gunning Shire Council February Meeting

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 3

At the February meeting of the Gunning Shire Council a letter was received from Mr. W. Sheahan, M.L.A., intimating that £5 had been…

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Lord Mayor's Fund

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 5

The financial statement presented at last night's meeting of the Crookwell sub-branch of the Lord…

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Must Brown-out in the Crookwell Shire What Is Required

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 5

The attention of householders is directed to the regulations governing the "brownout, which is at present in…

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Municipal Council Fortnightly Meeting

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 4

THE fortnigthly meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Monday night. Present; The Mayor (Ald. F. Kelly) in the chair, Aldermen P…

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Municipal Council Charcoal Production Instruction in Dealing with Bombs

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 3

The regular meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Monday night. The Deputy Mayor, Aid. M S. Nash, was in the chair and there…

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N.E.S and Council No Subscription By Council “People Should Help Themselves”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 1

On Monday night a motion that the Council should subscribe £5 to the National Emergency Service Fund was defeated…

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A.L.P. BRANCH Electorate Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the Goulburn branch of the A.L.P., held last Monday evening, it was decided to go ahead with the…

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