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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1959

162 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 5 of 9

Municipality Of Windsor Original Lists of Electors for the Year 1959

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 July 1959 · page 7

NOTICE is hereby given that the Original Lists of Electors for the two Wards of the Municipality of…

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Planning by Shire Council Under Review

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 July 1959 · page 3

THE Cumberland County Council, at its meeting on July 10, considered the local…

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Council Selects New Engineer Behind Closed Doors

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 July 1959 · page 1

Showing the furtiveness of behaviour that has become characteristic of the present Colo Shire Council, that body at its meeting…

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Windsor Council To Release Publicity Brochure

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1959 · page 9

Explaining the nature and proposed distribution of the publicity brochure to be released by Windsor Council, the Mayor said…

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Hire Cars Scheme Approved By Windsor Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1959 · page 8

A proposal for hire cars to have stands in side streets at Windsor and Richmond was approved in principle, after some discussion,…

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Council Tries To Block Move For Secession

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1959 · page 11

COLO Shire Council has decided to oppose actively the move by North Springwood residents to…

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Show Council Asks Members For More Councillors

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1959 · page 5

A motion for an increase of the show council by 20 more councillors was amended to 10 at the July meeting of the council, and…

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Council Not Intimidated

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1959 · page 1

Following Windsor. Council’s further decision, at its July meeting, not to grant the Atlantic Union Oil Company Ply. Lid. a permit to erect a service station near the Methodist Church at Windsor (see…

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Council Warned On Refusal Of Service Station Permit

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1959 · page 5

Despite an urgent warning by the Mayor that it had no legal grounds for its objection, Windsor Council at its July meeting…

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We Don’t Think This Council Likes Us Any More

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1959 · page 8

We are sorry to report that at least some members of Colo Shire Council are again (or should we say still?) displeased with the…

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£50,000 For Sewerage Survey. M.L.A. Tells Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 August 1959 · page 8

He had been told by two reputable Water Board officers that up to £50,000 had been allotted for a Richmond sewerage survey,…

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Resignation Of Alderman Accepted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1959 · page 13

THE resignation of Aid. C. M. Backhouse was tendered, and regretfully accepted, at the…

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President Stops "Spat At Council Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1959 · page 9

A heated retort by a councillor to a question by a fellow member of the Colo Shire Council brought the President's intervention at…

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Oil Company Threat To Council Of Legal Action

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1959 · page 4

After being advised of a threat of legal action by the Atlantic Union Oil Company Pty. Ltd. if its application for a service…

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Bankstown Rate Shook Shire Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1959 · page 14

COLO Shire Council, which levies an 8d rate, was visibly shaken at its July meeting to receive…

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Dust Problem In Shire Stood Over By Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1959 · page 9

After a further inconclusive discussion on the dust problem along some roads in the shire, the Colo Shire Council at its…

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Compliment To Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1959 · page 9

During a discussion with the divisional engineer of the Department of Main Roads at…

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Weed Council Contribution

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1959 · page 4

After receiving a verbal report from the President (Cr. A. V. Watkins), on a conference of…

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More Care Of Shire Parks Recommended

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1959 · page 9

A DEFINITE programme of improvements to parks under its supervision was…

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Council Not Been Told

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1959 · page 13

In tire report of the “finance committee” adopted at the July meeting of Colo Shire…

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