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

Council & local affairs, 1954

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Council Decision To Soften Goulburn Water

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 5

Ald. J. B. Mullen told last week's meeting of Goulburn City Council it would cost £90 a week to bring Goulburn water down to eight degrees hardness, which would still be more than double the hardness of Sydney water…

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A.p.p.u. District Council Meets

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 2

Australian Primary Producers' Union delegates from Gunning, Dalton, Taralga, Goulburn, Bungonia…

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Council Drops Pejar Plan for Water: Other Schemes

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 1

Goulburn City Council has decided to inform the Department of Public Works that, at this stake, it does not wish to proceed with a scheme to dam the Wollondilly River at Pejar to augment the city's water supply. Council has authorised the…

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Council Defers Matter of Fluorine in Water Cost Estimated At £1000 A Year

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 1

Goulburn City Council was told last week that the fluoridation of the city's water supply would, cost in the vicinity of 1000 a year. This was stated by council's consulting engineer, Mr. G. I…

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Three Vote Against Use of Shire Gang No. 9 on Burrinjuck Road Flying Unit’s Work Excellent Says President

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 4

GOODRADIGBEE SHIRE DECIDED LAST WEEK TO SEND NO. 9 GANG. CONSISTING OF A GANGER AND THREE MEN, ON TO THE BURRINJUCK ROAD. IT WILL ALSO SEND, A A TRUCK TO THE BINALONG AREA TO CARRY OUT…

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Mayor Praises Cr. Barry

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1

The Mayor of Goulburn Ald G. E. Gerathy, welcoming delegates to the Electricity Conference to-day,…

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Mayor's Welcome To Elect. Delegates

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 3

"If we want to see country areas progress and hold the people on the land, then it is up to use to extend electricity wherever it is economically possible," Ald. G. E. Gerathy told delegates to the Electricity Conference…

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Special Council Meeting

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1

A special meeting of the Crookwell Shire Council will be held to-morrow to consider several matters concerning…

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Letters To The Editor Shire Rates

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 5

Sir:—I wish to hereby protest against the rise in the shire rates to five pence in the . I Wish to point cut that this…

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County Council Receives Protest From Mulwaree

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2

At the meeting of the Berrima County Council, held at Bowral, last Friday night, a letter was received from the Mulwaree Shire Council stating its objections to the proposed increase in tariff for the supply of electricity to Marulan…

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Alderman Fined

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 1

Mr. Beavers, S.M., in Central Court yesterday fined a, former Leichhardt alderman a total of £60 for having corruptly…

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Officers For Milk Zone Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Mr. L. J. Shearman, of Raymond Terrace, Was elected General President of the Milk Zone Dairymen's…

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Chairman Replies To Attack On Country Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 3

Cr. Harry Jenson chairman of Sydney County Council, alleged at the electricity conference in…

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Boorowa Shire Council To Receive £330 Subsidy Extension Of Electricity Distribution Lines In Shire

Boorowa News · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3

The Electricity Authority of N.S.W. has granted Boorowa Shire Council a subsidy of £330 towards the cost of extending the Council's electricity distribution lines to Poplin and others within the Shire of Boorowa…

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Local Council Praised

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3

Delegates to this week's electricity conference in Goulburn praised work done by the Goulburn City…

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Around the Shire Roads Engineer's Report

Boorowa News · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3

The Shire Engineer (Mr. L. St. K. Donaldson) submitted the following report to Friday's meeting of Boorowa…

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No Change In Riverina Bookings For Boorowa Passengers Present System Of Allocating Seats Quite Adequate Interesting Items From Fridays Shire Council Meeting

Boorowa News · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4

At last Friday's meeting of Boorowa Shire Council the Minister for Transport advised that in the opinion of his Department the present system of allocating seats on the Riverina Express for passengers from Boorowa was quite…

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Council Plans for Kenmore—bradfordville

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 1

Geulburn City Council's Town Planner, Mr. W. I. Muntz, last night outlined to members of…

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County Council Not Favoured

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 6

Council declined a request last Thursday to join a County Council for the control of Serrated Tussock in the…

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Goulburn Talks On Country Council

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 3

Members of the N.S.W. Electricity Authority met representatives of Goulburn City Council, and Mulwaree, Gunning and Crookwell Shire Councils in Goulburn to-day in a conference on rural electrification in this area…

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