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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1954

225 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 8 of 12

Baths To Be At Richmond, Council Decides

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

At a special meeting held on July 20 Windsor Council decided by a majority vote that the proposed swimming pool be sited in the Richmond…

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Aldermen Give Their Reasons For Accepting Tender

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 9

Speaking in turn, seven aldermen at the August meeting of the Windsor Council gave their reasons for favouring the higher of two sanitary service tenders submitted to the Council recently…

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X-Ray Service For Residents Of Colo Shire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 8

RESIDENTS of Colo Shire were invited to avail themselves of the free chest x-ray service which…

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Scouts Group Appreciated Council Help

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

Appreciation of the prompt action of the Windsor Council in assisting the Richmond Scouts Group to obtain a site…

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Department Calls On Council For Explanation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 1

Officially advised that the Department of Local Government took "a very serious view" of the council's action in accepting the higher of two…

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Course For Aldermen

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 12

When a letter from the Commonwealth Bank being read to the August' meeting of the Windsor…

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Extra Plant for County Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 2

PURCHASE of an extra, one-man spray equipment to cope with growing commitments in noxious weeds…

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Council Told X-Ray Dates

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 10

Dates for the compulsory chest x-ray survey in the municipality had now been fixed as September 17 to 27…

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A Council's Pride In Its Chairman

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 3

HAWKESBURY River County Council members look great pride in the fact that their Chairman had…

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Council Heeds Warning by the Mayor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1954 · page 16

ANOTHER warning as to the possible outcome of a certain decision, was given by the Mayor at the…

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Notable Self Control By An Alderman

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1954 · page 1

One of this paper's most furiously enthusiastic critics among the aldermen performed a remarkable feat of self control—for a minute or so—at…

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Council Decides On Trees For Planting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1954 · page 6

Types of trees recommended by the Forestry Commission for planting at Windsor and Richmond were, with one exception, approved by…

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Minor Items Of Interest In Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1954 · page 14

Included in business considered by the Windsor Council at its August 3 meeting were a number of miscellaneous matter, of which those…

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Alderman Has "Field Day"

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

One alderman, with no less than seven questions with notice and three motions with notice on the business paper at the August 3 meeting: of the…

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Support For Council's Tree Scheme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 12

TWO further letters in support of Windsor council's tree-planting scheme for Windsor and Richmond…

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More Council Debate On Sanitary Fees

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 7

A request by a Richmond business that portion of an account for sanitary fees be waived caused further debate at the August 3 meeting…

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Council Orders Extra Plant Costing £16,500

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 8

After careful consideration of quotations received the Colo Shire Council at its August meeting decided to order extra roadmaking plant to the…

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Council To Honour Promise Of Punt Approach

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 6

A decision to honour its earlier undertaking to provide an approach to a private punt on the Colo River owned by two farmers was made by Colo…

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More Money For Shire Council's Roadmaking

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 4

ROADMAKING grants to shire councils throughout the State for this financial year would average 70 per…

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Big Increase In Colo Shire Works Forecast

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 3

"I would say that inside ten years this council will be spending £200,000 per year in the shire, instead of £100,000 this year," the engineer…

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