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

Council & local affairs, 1946

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Special Council Meeting To Consider Baths Proposal

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

A special meeting of Boorowa Shire Council will be convened to give consideration to the establishment of swimming baths at Boorowa. The date of the meeting will be decided when Council…

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France's Note on Franco Case for Security Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: The danger that General France represented to peace was again emphasised in a note handed by France to the British, American and Russian Ambassadors in Paris,…

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Council to Co-operate Proposed Canberra-Bathurst Bus Service

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

Further support for the proposed bus service, between Canberra and Bathurst, via Boorowa, Cowra, and Blayney, was forthcoming at…

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Treatment of Returned Council Employee Ex-Mayor’s Strong Criticism at R.S.L. Meeting Vigilance Committee Appointed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 2

A strong protest was voiced at last Saturday night’s meeting of the R.S.L. in the Soldiers’ Club lounge room, by…

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Mobile Loud Speakers Under City Council Consideration

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 6

Aldermen at Thursday night's meeting of the City Council agreed that mobile loud speakers that patrolled the city streets at night as a means of advertising were a disturbing influence…

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City Council Library Plans Discussed With Sydney Official

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

The Mayor, Ald, P. R. D. Hollis and the Town Clerk, Mr. R. J. McLean, conferred with the assistant secretary…

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Letters to Council Employee Text Refuted by Some Aldermen “Council Placed in Wrong Light With Public”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 2

At Monday night’s Municipal Council meeting reference was made to the criticism by Mr. E. J O’Connor, an ex-mayor, at…

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Fowl-proof Fence Not Considered Necessary By Council

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 1

Messrs. Phillips & Co., solicitors, advised the Municipal Council on Monday night that the executors of A. L. Williams insisted on the…

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Taxi Licenses Council to Review Position Bowning-yass Bus Service

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 1

The R.S.L. wrote to the Municipal Council on Monday night asking it to review its decision not to approve of any more…

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Cr. R. Flannery Resigns Boorowa Shire Council

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 1

Cr. R. A. Flannery ("A" Biaing) has resigned from Boorowa Shire Council. The councillor told last meeting that he found it impossible to devote the…

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Unsteamed Sanitary Pans Residents' Complaints Before Shire Council Meeting

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 2

Complaints by residents regarding unsteemed sanitary pans, and that trenches were not being filled in at the depot, were before the February…

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Repairs To Pudman Street Councillors' Requests at Shire Meeting

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 2

Repairs to Pudman Street, in front of Mr. J. J. Cummins' premises, were requested by Cr. R. L. Gorham at last meeting of the Shire Council…

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Shire Matters

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

To the Goodradigbee Shire Council the Overseer submitted the following special report on requests from councillors:—…

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Shire Protest Weeds on Crown Lands

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 3

At the meeting of the Goodradigbee Shire Council on Friday, the president (Cr. Earle Archer) raised the old question of noxious weeds…

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Goodradigbee Shire Properties To Be Re-valued

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 2

The president, Cr. Earle Archer, was in the chair at the monthly meeting of the Goodradigbee Shire Council on Friday last. Also present…

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Municipal Council Grass To Be Cut in Victoria Park Park Area Suggested on River

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 4

The Mayor, Aid. W. L. Simon, presided at the monthly meeting of the Municipal Council held on Monday night. Others present were…

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Offer to Purchase Land in Brown Street Council to Invite Tenders

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

Ernest Backwater & Co., Sports. wear Production, who are starting manufacturing in Messrs. F. L. Kelly & Company’s building in the…

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Big Gathering of War Veterans At Shire's Welcome Home Banquet Six Hundred at Veterans' Ball

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 1

Approximately 250 ex-service men and women, veterans of the South African War and World Wars I. and II., sat down to a welcome home banquet in the Literary Institute Hall on…

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Demondrille Shire Council Monthly Meeting

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1946 · page 4

THE monthly meeting of the above Shire was held in the Shire Office, Bathurst Street, on Saturday last Present: Crs. J. A. Flanery…

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Municipal Council Fortnightly Meeting

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1946 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above was held in the Council Chambers on Monday night last. Present: The Mayor (Ald. F. Kelly)…

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