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

Council & local affairs, 1952

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Council Wins Over P.m.g. in 2Nd Round

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 January 1952 · page 1

Cowra Municipal council has forced the P.M.G.'s Department to agree to pay all council accounts within seven…

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Cement Shortage May Mean Sack For Council Men

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 3

Goulburn City Council will be forced to dismiss several workmen if cement supplies do not increase shortly…

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Municipal Markets for Canberra?

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 3

A recommendation that the Minister for the Interior, Mr.Kent Hughes, should give consideration to the establishment of a municipal market in Canberra and that a conference should be called of all growers, both within and outside the…

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Welcome to New Shire Engineer Council's Progress, for 1951 Reviewed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 4

The Crookwell Shire Council coupled the opportunity of welcoming the recently appointed Shire Engineer, Mr. H. James, B.E., and reviewing the work and progress of Council during the…

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Mulwaree Shire Health Report

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

Only three cases of notifiable infectious diseases in Mulwaree Shire were reported last year. Shire Health Inspector, Mr…

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Caravans on Picnic Area: Council View

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

Certain land at Kenmore was unfavourably occupied, Shire Health Inspector, Mr. J. J. McNaught, told Mulwaree Shire Council to-day. He said it was "liable to create insanitary conditions which…

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Council Was In The Dark

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

The start of Goulburn City Council's meeting last night was delayed by nearly 30 minutes because of an…

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Council's Success In Light Claim

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

Varying contribution from hydro-electric sources had resulted in wide fluctuations in the price charged for bulk electricity supplied to councils in the Southern Electricity Supply…

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Blue Metal Reaching Prohibitive Cost Causing Boorowa Shire Concern

Boorowa News · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 4

Blue metal has reached an almost prohibitive cost. The Boorowa Shire Council showed its concern over this at its…

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L.t.a. Request Refused by Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 3

Goulburn Lawn Tennis Association has asked the City Council for a refund of general rates totalling…

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Mulwaree Shire

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

Present at Mulwaree Shire Council's meeting on Thursday day were: Shire President, Cr. Stan Hunt and…

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Council To Meet Every 5 Weeks

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

Goulburn City Council will in future meet only once every five weeks. But at Thursday night's meeting alderman decided that each…

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Aldermen at Play Centre

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 2

The Goulburn play centre was inspected yesterday by the Deputy Mayor, Ald. G. E. Gerathy, the Town Clerk,…

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Mulwaree Shire Notes

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 4

There was a full attendance at the first meeting of the Mulwaree Shire since the Christmas vacation and several matters of…

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Council Finishes Year with Large Deficit Grim Warning Contained In Shire Clerk's Report

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

The short-range effect of the powerful inflationary currents operating in our midst and tending to draw the ship of state into the perilous waters of bankruptcy are revealed in stark reality in the finances of the Crookwell Shire Council as disclose d to members by the Shire Clerk at…

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Slaughter House License Refused Council's Patience Exhausted

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

With a resoluteness of which even the civic fathers are sometimes capable, councillors, at their meeting last Thursday, refused to renew the license governing the operation of a local…

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Is There a Limit to Council Resignations?

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

Do the laws of Local Government fix any sane limit to the number of times a councillor can resign and renominate to…

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Traffic Control Conference Council Pinpoints Public Nuisance

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 5

Motor vehicles parked in busy streets for lengthy periods while awaiting repair was classified by Council as a public nuisance, following a conference' called to consider traffic control…

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What Is a Temporary Structure? Council Is Set Awkward Poser

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 6

Mr. Harold Seaman tossed a curly one into the court of the Shire Council when he asked members if to be classed as a temporary structure, a building had to be a flimsy…

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From Everywhere Shire Rate 6d

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 January 1952 · page 2

Conobolas Shire Council—with its headquarters at Orange—has struck a general rate of 6d in the £ on unimproved capital…

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