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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1941

270 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 5 of 14

Correspondence at Richmond Council Meeting Recruiting Resumed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 May 1941 · page 3

AN intimation that the Richmond Recruiting Committee had renewed" activities was received by the Richmond Council in the course of correspondence…

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Council Reports to Richmond Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 10

THE reports published below were presented to the Richmond Council at its meeting on Thursday evening, April 24: —HEALTH INSEPCTOR'S REPORT…

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Question Time at Windsor Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 12

WHEN questions were invited by the Deputy Mayor (Ald. W. J. Ross) at the conclusion of ordinary business at the meeting of the Windsor Council on Tuesday…

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Correspondence at Windsor Council Meeting Recruiting Office Reopened

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 12

THE list of correspondence dealt with at the Windsor Council meeting on Tuesday evening of last week was of an unusually lengthy nature, owing to the…

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Unregistered Vendor Subject of Inspector's Report to Richmond Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 7

RATHER a serious reflection on the administration of the Public Health Act at Richmond was provided by a special report submitted to the last meeting…

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Another Recruit From Windsor Council Staff Meeting's Good Wishes

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2

FOLLOWING the example set recently by the Windsor Council's overseer, Mr. C. Thompson, another member of the council's road staff, Mr. N. P…

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Colo Shire Council Monthly Meeting Depot Site Purchased Valuations Adjustments Effected Salvage Arrangements Stand

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 1

MARKING the conclusion of a long and worrying period of negotiations, a report that the purchase of land for the North Richmond sanitary depot site had…

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Travelling Expenses Shire Councillors' Complaint Duplication of Transport

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 10

THE provision of the Local Government Act which precludes a shire councillor from receiving travelling expenses on attending a council meeting unless he…

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Question Time at Richmond Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 7

WHEN questions were invited toy the Mayor (Ald. J. W. Smith) at the conclusion of ordinary business at the (Richmond Council meeting last week, Aid. Farlow asked if…

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Council Reports to Richmond Meeting War Loan Investment

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 6

DECISIONS to invest an amount of £200 in the new War Loan, and to ask the Department of the Interior, in extending the Air Station, to make a…

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Water Hyacinth Department Furnishes Report to Windsor Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 6

THAT Eastern Creek had been found to be the source of the water hyacinth infestation in South Creek, which had been troubling Windsor Council for some…

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Correspondence at Richmond Council Meeting Subsidy to Recruiting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 5

ASSISTANCE to the local Recruiting Committee by means of a donation of £3/3/- was one of the points of interest arising from consideration of…

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Permission Revoked Closing of Access Road Shtre Council Receives Petition

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 3

THE closing of the road of access to the Freeman's Beach water reserve, for which the Cold Shire Council some time ago gave permission to a landholder…

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Richmond Sendoffs to Local A.i.f. Recruits Council Taken to Task

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 3

TOLD bluntly at its meeting last week that its defection in not having given the lead in providing proper sendoffs to Richmond lads going overseas on active service…

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Question Time at Shire Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 10

WHEN "questions and complaints" were invited by the President (Cr. H. C. Matheson) at the conclusion of ordinary business at the Colo Shire Council meeting…

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Fruitgrowers' Problems Discussed at Windsor Meeting See Inside Pages. Growers Meet Federation District Council Held at Windsor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 1

THERE was the usual small attendance of delegates at the Hawkesbury District Conference of the Fruitgrowers' Federation of N.S.W. held at the Royal…

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New Amendment Means Big Expense To Windsor Council See Page 2 "Misled House" Alderman Charges Ex-minister 'Water for Hospitals" Question

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 1

HOW the significant alteration of one word—in this instance from "may" to "shall"—in an obscure subsection in the Local Government Act may easily…

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Question Time at Windsor Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 11

WHEN questions were invited by the Mayor (Ald. J. J. McLeod) at the conclusion of ordinary business at the meeting of the "Windsor Council on Tuesday evening of…

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Monthly Meetings Windsor Council Decision Transport Difficulties

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 9

OWING largely to transport difficulties experienced by certain of the added area aldermen due to petrol rationing, and increasing demands on the time of…

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Sewerage Connection Responsibility of Contractor Windsor Council Discussion

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 10

WHETHER in the event of an owner engaging a licensed contractor to connect his premises with the sewer and then paying him before the work was…

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