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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1955

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Shire Council Delegates

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 8

Tse President (Cr. H C Matheson) and Cr. Smith were appointed, at the January meeting of the Colo Shire…

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Shire Council Shelves Action On Transport Problem

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 2

Decision on the question of transport for the engineer was deferred for a second time by Colo Shire Council at its December meeting…

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Council Offers Old Graders In Part Of Shire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 9

OLD horse graders in the McDonald Valley owned by Colo Shire Council were to be advertised, by notices…

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Shire Has Rise In Endowment

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 8

Annual Government endowment for the Colo Shire Council had been increased from £2400 to £2790 for the next…

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Council Get Particulars Of Committee

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 4

SOME particulars of the now-defunet Wilberforce Fitness Committee were finally received by the Colo Shire Council at its…

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Council Not Keen On Bowen's Creek Road Idea

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 5

A request for Colo Shire Council to consider improving the Bowen's Creek Road as a Federal Aid work was not received with any noticeable…

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Mayor Tries Experiment At Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 1

A NOVEL experiment in relaxing the tension of long council meetings was introduced by the Mayor at the…

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Weeds Officer For Council?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 5

At some future date, not too far distant, the Hawkesbury River County Council would have to consider the…

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Council Grants Stall Dates

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 10

An application by the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and Hospital Auxiliary to conduct street stalls and…

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Fresh Loans by Council Total £4000

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 11

DECISIONS to ask permission to raise three new loans, totalling £4000, were made by Windsor Council…

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Country Council Varies Its Normal Practice

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 10

For the first time in its six years or so of existence, the Hawkesbury River County Council at its January meeting elected committes to…

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Bridge Is Danger To Public, Council Asserts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 3

The condition in which D.M.R. employees left unfinished work on Mackenzie's Creek Bridge, Pitt Town Road, some months ago made the…

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Council Rejects Town Improvement Rate Rise In Five-All Vote

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 1

The same general and local rating for 1955 as applied last year was adopted by a special meeting of the Windsor Council called on January…

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Ominous Note in Mayor's Pool Comment

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 February 1955 · page 2

SOME of Ms hearers read an ominous mote into a comment by the Mayor regarding the Olympic pool…

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Why Shire Estimates Were Hard To Reduce

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 February 1955 · page 1

Winy a section of Colo Shire council found extreme difficulty in reducing the 1955 estimates to conform to am arbitrary redaction of last…

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Council Decides On Another New Motor Lorry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 February 1955 · page 6

An additional mew motor lorry Haas been ordered by the Windsor Council after a debate at the January meeting on the same lines as that…

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Council May Oppose Show Holidays

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 1

IF the business houses did not observe a full holiday for the Show this year, the Colo Shire Council is…

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Council Permit For Hill Climb

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 4

In a letter to the February meeting of the Colo Shire Council the Vintage Sports Car Club asked…

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Shire Council Auditors Back

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 1

In a letter to the February meeting of the Colo Shire Council, Messrs. Allen and Allen, in asking for…

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Farmer's Drainage Offer To Shire Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 1

In response to a Colo Shire Council proposal to carry out a £500 road drainage project at his property if he contributed £400, a Wilberforce…

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