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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1954

225 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 7 of 12

Pleased at Honour for Alderman

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 14

RECENT inclusion of the name of the Deputy-Mayor in the Birthday Honourns List was the subject of a…

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Alderman On Helping "Idle Rich"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 8

PROVIDED the Windsor Pre-School Kindergarten was not for "the idle sick" or "ladies who go playing…

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Mayor Makes Rural Bank Award

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

The Mayor of Windsor (Mr. V.W. Gillespie) presents the Rural Bank Trophy, awarded to the "Windsor and Richmond Gazette" for journalism to the Editor (Mr. A.T. Murphy), at a function arranged by the Manager of the Rural Bank's Windsor Branch Mr. R.J. Donald (centre.)…

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Council Help For Scouts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 2

A recommendation that an area of land adjoining the railway property in Bourke Street, Richmond, be made…

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EDITORIAL Press And Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

A MAJORITY of members of the present Windsor Council considers that the public has been misinformed by certain articles which have appeared in this paper. It is significant…

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Sharp Reply To Request By Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 3

AFTER hearing a tart reply from the F.M.G's. Department to a request for payment for footpath…

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Council Move To Remit Sanitary Fees

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 2

A move by some members of the Windsor Council to remit a proportion of sanitary charges to a business firm was deferred at the July…

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Why "No Judas" In Windsor Council?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 11

Most Intriguing aspect of the special (and abortive) meeting of the Windsor Council to take our representative to task, reported elsewhere…

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Support For Council's Street Trees Scheme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 6

Individual offers of practical help for the proposed street tree-planting scheme were received by the July meeting of the Windsor Council from…

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We Throw A Seare Into The Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

To test the sincerity of those aldermen who claim we have been misreporting some aspects of Windsor Council meeting we took along a tape recorder to the special meeting of the council last week…

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Alderman Critical

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 1

Ald. Dean asked at the July meeting of the Windsor Council whether any deductions for taxation…

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Shire Finances Very Sound Says Clerk

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 1

"On the Whole the financial position of this council is particularly sound," it was stated in an annual report presented by the Clerk to the…

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Council Income Loss From Waiving Rates

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 5

Granting pensioners' rates was now having such a serious effect on Windsor Council income that the council must…

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Council Help for Tennis Courts Work

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 4

A CONTRIBUTION by Windsor Council towards improvements at the tennis courts in McQuade Park…

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Council Profits "Should Never Have Been Taken"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 9

In reducing commercial and indmistriial lighting and power charges the Windsor Council was "only returning something that should never…

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New Council Policy of Full Cost To Owner

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 2

Former policy of the Windsor Council to contribute half cost of construction of street entrances to private property has been amended…

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Shire Council Baulks At Employ Of Works Overseer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 2

A recommendation to the July meeting of the Colo Shire Council, by the engineer, that a works overseer be added to the councils staff was…

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Some Don't Want Shire Council To Acquire Park

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 8

A petition protesting against tine decision of the Colo Shire Council to acquire the private picnic ground near Windsor Bridge for use as a…

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More Tools For Shire Ferry Slip

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 1

PURCHASE of some £205 worth of extra equipment for the docking slip at Wiseman's Ferry was approved by the July meeting of the Colo Shire Council. IN his report to the meet…

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President Honoured After Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 11

In tribute to his recent award of the M.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List, the President was the guest at .a very pleasant social function after…

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