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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1955

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Flooded Bridge Report To Colo Shire Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 1

After discussing a considered report by the engineer on the submerged bridge above SI Albany Colo Shire Council sit its December…

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Mayor Was Re-Elected With Added Allowance

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 6

As Mayor of Windsor for 1955, Ald. V.W. Gillespie was re-elected unopposed, with an allowance of £260, at the special meeting' which preceded…

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Big Steps In 1955 For Colo shire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 8

IN his opinion, 1955 should be a year of "unprecedented achievement for Colo Shire," the…

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Council Puts Road Drainage Plan To Landowner

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 7

A decision! that Colo shire Council would carry out a recommended £500 road drainage plan at the Nagle property on Wilberforce Road If the…

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Shire Council Decides To Take A Chance

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 1

GOLD Shire Council at its December meeting decided to gamble on there toeing no extensive flood in…

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Commission Homes In Shire Asked By Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 6

A request to the Housing Commission to extend its operations into Colo Shire was decided on by the Shire Council at its December…

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Letter To Shire Council On Many Subjects

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 2

Among the letters on many subjects included in correspondence received by Colo Shire Council at its December meeting were those…

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1216 X-Rayed From Shire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 3

A total of 1216 shire residents had chest x-rays during the recent visit of a mobile unit to Windsor and…

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War Memorial Park in Shire Centre

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 10

SUGGESTIONS for assisting a Memorial Park project at Freeman's Reach were deferred by Colo…

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Shire Rate Fixed At 6d After Further Argument

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 1

After a further two hours' debate in which the same ground was gone over while two councillors tried without success to reduce the estimates…

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Council Sorry To Lose A Ferrymaster

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 2

A RESIGNATION by a ferrymaster was accepted with obviously genuine regret by Colo Shire Council…

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"A Pleasing Letter," Says Mayor At Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 8

Consent toy the Department of Transport to instal "islands" and pedestrian crossings at the Richmond Road-George Street intersection at…

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Playgrounds in Shire a Real Need

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 8

THE need for properly equipped playgrounds in shire centres of population was strongly stressed in a…

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Many Items In Report On Shire Activities

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 12

Among the many aspects off the Colo Shire Council's work during 1954 covered in the President's annual report to the December…

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Possible Late Delivery Disturbs Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 1

Prospects of delayed delivery of the new motor lorry ordered a short time previously were tine subject of some concerned discussion at the…

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Pound Must Be Kept Open Council Orders

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 9

Following a complaint of refusals by the Windsor poundkeeper to accept animals for impounding, windsor Council at its December meeting…

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"Try-On" By Council Was Not Successful

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 4

A suggestion by Windsor Council that a Commonwealth department meet the cost of extending the sewerage service to homes the department…

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Idea Was New One To The Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 2

"I WONDER where they got that idea, Mr. Mayor?" asked are alderman when a letter from a leading…

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Council Holds On To Money Of Ex-Contractor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 5

Certain money belonging to a firm of sanitary contractors previously holding the Richmond contract will be retained by Windsor Council until…

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Council Contests D.M.R. View On Gutter Repairs

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 10

An opinion by the D.M.R. that gutter maintenance in a section of Lennox Street, Richmond, was a matter for Windsor Council was promptly…

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