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

Council & local affairs, 1954

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Council To Build Residence For Elec. Engineer

Boorowa News · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 3

The Boorowa Shire Council has decided to build a residence for an electrical engineer at a cost of £2,968…

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New Council Chambers to Be Built at Boorowa Site Chosen Near Band Rotunda In Market Street Interesting Items from Last Monday's Meeting

Boorowa News · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

Last Monday's meeting of the Boorowa Shire Council decided to approve the erection of new Council Chambers in Boorowa…

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Shire Roads

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

Matters mentioned at the last meeting of Goodradigbee Shire Council included: The president (Cr. G. Johnson)…

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Shire Workshop Foreman Shire Councillors’ Appreciation

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

A letter signed by the Shire President, Cr. G. Johnson, will be sent to the Shire workshop foreman, Mr. Ivan Kilpatrick,…

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Country Cl. Proposal Municipal Council Representation

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 3

On Monday night Ald. Meagher asked whether the ratio of 4-2 representation in favour of the Municipal Council on the…

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Municipal Council to Consider Plant Requirements

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

Ald. K. Meagher in moving that the plant position be considered at the next Municipal Council meeting, said on Monday…

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Bridge a Year Aim of Shire

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

Goodradigbee Shire Council proposes to build a bridge each year from Commonwealth Aid Grant…

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£10 Shire Donation For Hospital Fete

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 4

Goodradigbee Shire Council decided to make a donation of £10 towards the District Hospital fete to be held next May…

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New Catholic Building Blessed By Bishop; Opened By Mayor

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

“These new class rooms ar£ something for Yass to be proud of,” the Mayor, Ald. W. T. Walker, said yesterday afternoon when he officially opened the modern school rooms attached to what was referred to as the…

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“Worst Dose Of Medicine” Shire’s 12¾d Rate

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

“It is the worst dose of medicine we have had to take,” Cr. G. Johnson, president Goodradigbee Shire…

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M. Council Buys House For Employee

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

The fibro and weatherboard cottage owned by Mrs. Ashbury, 29 Mont St., Marchmont, and occupied by Ald. and Mrs. M. Nash,…

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City Council Gets Finance For Works £150.000 in Loan Money

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1

Goulburn City Council has been advised that a 120,000 loan has been secured to finance sewerage augmentation in the city. The Town Clerk, Mr. C. S…

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Council on Voting

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 6

On the grounds that the new voting system of proportional representation leaves the way open to make Local Government "the…

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Warning On Council's General Fund

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1

Ald. J. B. Mulled I old the City Council last week a letter from the Local Government Department regarding council finances was a warning that it could not go on charging unbudgeted works to its general fund…

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Retirement of Shire Employee

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 2

TARALGA: Mr. Charles Cooley has retired after 12 years service as a ganger with Mulwaree Shire Council…

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Shire President Opens Flood Appeal

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 1

The Shire President, Cr. E. G. Clements, has launched an appeal locally for funds to aid the…

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Shire President Opens Flood Victims' Appeal

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 8

The president of the Mulwaree Shire Council, Cr. T. W. Burge, has opened an appeal throughout the Shire' for the victims of the…

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Around the Council Table

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 6

There was a full complement or Councillors around the table at the February meeting and the business paper was' unusually light (due to…

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Disposal Of Council Cottages Discussed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 5

The method by which Council would dispose of the cottages now being erected by it for sale to approved purchaeers was…

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Advice To Council On Compulsory Unionism

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 5

Advice before the last meeting of Council from the Shires' Association of New South Wales informed members that the…

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