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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1941

270 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 6 of 14

Cheaper Electricity Windsor Council Discusses Question Bulk Charge Reduced

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

DECIDING unanimously at its meeting last, week to accept a County Council offer of a reduction of £1 per K.V.A. in the charge for bulk electricity supply…

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Council Reports Last Week's Windsor Meeting Recovery Proceedings Authorised

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 5

THE authorising of the health inspector to take the necessary proceedings for the recovery of amounts due to council for licences for advertising…

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Further Complaint on Sewerage Works Nuisance Council to Consult Expert

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 12

"FINALLY aroused to the realisation, by another series of complaints, that the sewerage treatment "works were really "in bad odour" with a number of…

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Pear Destruction Windsor Council Not Satisfied "Treated" Areas Not Clean

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 12

DOUBTS expressed during recent months as to whether the council was receiving full value for the money it was paying to the Prickly Pear…

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Correspondence at Windsor COUNcIL Meeting "Repeat" A.R.P. LECTURE

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 8

OWING to the previous meeting having lapsed for want of a quorum, Windsor Council was again called upon at its meeting on Tuesday evening of…

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Shire Reports to Monday's Council Meeting Bridge Tender Accepted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 2

AN intimation that one of the tenders submitted for the construction of the proposed new bridge over Buttsworth's Creek, on the Wilberforce-road, had been…

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Punt Complaints Investigation Committee's Findings Report to Shire Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 5

THE report of the investigation committee appointed at the previous meeting to visit the clocking slip and inquire generally into various…

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Shire Recruiting Discussion at Council Meeting Making Suitable Arrangements

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 10

AN appeal by the Deputy Director of Recruiting for council's assistance in the present recruiting campaign was the subject of some discussion at the…

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Hyacinth Problem Colo Shire Council Discussion Responds to Windsor Appeal

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 10

IN consequence of the decision of Windsor Council (as reported in our last issue) to ask the Blacktown. and Colo Shire Councils and Richmond…

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Shire Electricity Company's Proposals Single Meter Rate Extra Inclusive Service Charge "Domestic Matter" Says Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 1

AN interesting proposal to introduce within the shire area a "single-meter" rate for electricity supply, embodying a fixed charge of 8d. for the first 30…

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Correspondence at Richmond Council Meeting Health Inspector Resigns

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 6

THE acceptance of the resignation of the health inspector, tendered owing to his having secured a better appointment with another council, was a…

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Council Reports to Richmond Meeting Dight Street Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 12

A DECISION to notify the Department of the Interior that council desired Dight-street to be continued as a deviation round the proposed extension of the…

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Richmond Council Makes Final Demand For Rate Arrears

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 1

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Electricity Reductions Rates Collection Proceedings Decisions by Richmond Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 8

A REDUCTION in electricity charges to bulk consumers of £1 per K.V.A., and £d. per unit for all consumers formerly paying 5d. for lighting, were…

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Meal Hours and Ferry Toll Charges Shire Council Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 5

THE subject of ferrymen's meal hours and the hours of imposition of ferry toll charges, which have been rather vexed questions in the river centres for…

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Large Correspondence List at shire Council Meeting See Page 6. Shire Letters at Last Monday's Meeting War .Casuautoes Ajrirangem-e'n.t

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 1

nTMHE formation of small committees in various shire) centres to arrange, with the co-operation of the local post­master and the clergy in each case, for the conveyance to relatives of news of war casualties, was decided by the Colo Shire Council at its monthly meeting on Monday of last week, in response to a…

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Question Time at Shire Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 7

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

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Question Time at Richmond Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 5

WHEN questions were invited by the Mayor (Aid. J. W. Smith) at the conclusion of ordinary business at the Richmond Council meeting on Thursday evening of last…

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Correspondence at Richmond Council Meeting War Casualties Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 6

FOLLOWING the reading of a letter from the Department of Local Government asking for co-operation in arranging for the conveying of news of…

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Important Reductions Rural Electricity Charges Windsor Council's Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 3

REDUCTIONS throughout the rural area of 1d. for lighting and 1 1/2d. for power, with a correspondingly appreciable reduction in pumping rates, the new…

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