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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1937

136 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 5 of 7

Windsor Impoundings Petitioners _Ask Modification Council Seeks Advice

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 4

WINDSOR Council's decision, after receiving many complaints culminating in a petition from 70 residents of the Pitt Town —Oakville area, to enforce the impounding…

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Emergency Relief Discontinued at Windsor Council Seeks Extension

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 14

A notification which was not entirely unexpected, but which will nevertheless cause a great deal of inconvenience both to the workmen concerned and to the…

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Sports Pavilion All Tenders Too High Windsor Council Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 8

ONE of the chief features of interest at the Windsor Council meeting on Tuesday evening, 27th July, the opening of tenders received for construction of the…

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Electricity Service Desired by Cattai Residents Council, Asks for Report

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

THE growing popularity of the electricity services in the rural areas of the Windsor municipality since the already-completed extensions have been functioning has…

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Richmond Council Public Works Employment High School Agitation Clarendon Improvements

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 6

INCLUDED in the business discussed at the richmond Council meeting on Thursday evening of last week was a reply to council's protest against…

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Windsor Council "Work for Rates" Ruling Added Area Telephones Pavilion Tender Accepted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 7

THAT council could not permit ratepayers to "work off" their rates without first applying to the Labor Bureau and giving preference to returned…

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Windsor Relief Citizens' Protest at Withdrawal Endorsed by Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1937 · page 13

STRONG protests from all parts of the municipality, including many of the largest taxpayers and leading citizens, were received by Windsor Council at its meeting…

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Staff "Reorganisation" Richmond Council Proposal Engage Another Junior!

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 3

MANY of those interested in Richmond Council affairs have no doubt read the historic fable wherein the mountain "labored mightily to bring forth a mouse, and one…

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Windsor Council P.M.G's. Department Criticised Pavilion Contract Signed Impounding Ruling

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 7

WARM criticism of the attitude of the P.M.G's. Department in offering a sum considerably below council's estimate for adequate repairs to footpaths…

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Richmond Council "Off-peak" Charge Proposal Platform Project Abandoned Water Supply Survey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 6

AN interesting address by an officer of the Sydney County Council on the possibilities of reduction of the "off peak" water heating charges at…

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Richmond Council Deputation Re Certain Matters Minister for Works Inquiries

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 September 1937 · page 4

MR. R. B. WALKER, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Minister for Works and local Government (Mr. E. S. Spooner):—…

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Windsor Council Footpath Paving Programme "Working Out" Rates Park Improvements

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 September 1937 · page 13

AN announcement that all formalities in connection with the projected £2,000 footpath paving programme had now been completed, and the work could…

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Richmond Aldermen "Somersault" Over Junior Appointment See Page 9. Junior Appointment Richmond Aldermen "Somersault" Reject Own Proposal!

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 1

MAYBE it's the Spring, weather, which is said to impel us mortals to do the most irrational things, or perhaps the cause may be laid to a sudden access of diffidence…

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Monthly Meeting Colo Shire Council Loan for Bridges Decided Water Scheme Progress Straying Stock Penalties

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 1

A UNANIMOUS decision to seek permission from the Minister for Works and Local Government to raise a loan of £1,000, provided this was subsidised by…

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Richmond Unemployed Council Expresses Indignation at Minister's Letter

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 10

CONSIDERABLE indignation was expressed at the Richmond Council meeting on Thursday evening of last week at the terms of a reply from the Minister for Works and…

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Windsor Employment Relief Workers Meet Council Problems Discussed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 6

For the purpose of seeking information on a number of questions agitating their minds with regard to employment on the sewerage works, a deputation from the…

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Richmond Council Paving Programme Suggested Clarendon Building Limits Those Published Letters!

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 7

A motion submitting to the works committee a proposal for raising a loan with Government subsidy for the dual purpose of completing necessary…

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Richmond Clydesdale Exhibitor Must Apologise to Judge See Page 12. Clydesdale Exhibitor Carl Powell Must Apologise to Judge Default—disqualified 12 Months Show Council's Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 1

"THAT Mr. Carl Powell be notified in writing that the Council requires him to unconditionally apologise and withdraw in writing to the Judge…

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The U.a.p. Council and the Orchard Tax

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 4

From the "Brisbane Water Free Press" of September 21st, we clip the following item, which should be of interest to fruitgrowers and U.A.P. supporters…

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Richmond Council Adopts Diphtheria Immunisation Railways Electrification Tennis Courts Offer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 6

PARENTS in indigent circumstances in Richmond municipality may now arrange for their children to receive diphtheria immunisation treatment, by…

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