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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1965

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Shire Development Restrictions For Further Year

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1965 · page 14

Colo Shire will operate under the restrictive Interim Development Order for at least another 12 months. However, there is every…

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Shire Roadworks C.A.R. Grant Approved

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1965 · page 15

Roadworks totalling £41,176 are listed to be carried out by Colo Shire Council under its 1965-66 Commonwealth Aid Roads grant…

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Upper Colo P.a. Lashes Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1965 · page 16

Over the last two years Colo Shire Council had almost totally ignored complaints about the state of roads in the Colo area, Upper Colo Progress…

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“Shire Should Be Good Enough To Live In:” Protest By P.A.

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1965 · page 3

“If it is good enough to work for Colo Shire, Colo Shire should be good enough to live in,” Upper Colo Progress Association has told the…

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Mayor Presents Tennis Trophies

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 November 1965 · page 5

Among the trophies presented by the Mayor (Ald. Gillespie) at the recent Hawkesbury District Tennis Association Ball was this handsome cup to Freeman’s Reach, winners of the BII Grade competition. They are (from left) Mesdames J. Martin. V. Morley, J. Bonser, Messrs. J. Bonser, R. Richard, C. Smith and B. Salmon…

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Election in all Shire Ridings

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 November 1965 · page 17

There will be an election in all three Ridings of the Colo Shire Council in December. All six retiring members…

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Sign Left to Alderman’s Conscience

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 24

The question of the legality of an election sign on business premises in George Street, Windsor, was best left to Ald. Main’s conscience, the…

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Shire Backs Bilpin Hall Project

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 24

A project to build a hall at Bilpin has received the full backing of Colo Shire Council…

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Police Promise Shire “Utmost Co-operation”

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 5

The “utmost co-operation” by Windsor Police in efforts to prevent hooliganism in public parks has been promised to Colo Shire Council…

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Shire Would he “Flooded” With Industry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 18

Colo Shire would be “flooded” with decentralised industry if the barrier of the Interim…

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Shire Decentralisation Effort Survey on Personnel For Engineering Firm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 6

An engineering firm employing up to 200 people could be established in Colo Shire under the Government’s decentralisation scheme…

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Not Council’s Province To Warn Swimmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 22

Windsor Council believes that it is not its province nor would it be practicable, to attempt to warn visitors of the hazards of river…

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Municipal and [?] the Candidates

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 20

“In order for this, district to progress, its elected representatives must show government authorities and…

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Tenders Opened For New Council Chambers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 November 1965 · page 1

Windsor Council at a special meeting last week opened tenders for its proposed new council chambers, the lump sum price offered by the 11…

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Municipal and [?] the Candidates [?] Shape of Things to Come

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 November 1965 · page 20

Ald. D. G. Bowd, who is seeking re-election as a First Ward (Windsor) representative, believes that…

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Outsiders Dumping Rubbish in Shire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 December 1965 · page 28

Many people and business firms from outside Colo Shire were dumping rubbish at the tip on the Putty Road at Wilberforce, Colo Shire…

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Attempt To Block New Council Chambers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 December 1965 · page 2

A Windsor Council alderman has made a direct approach to the Minister for Local Government in an attempt to stop the council accepting…

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Council Evasive on Poor Ferry Service

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 December 1965 · page 18

Colo Shire Council is becoming quite evasive when people criticise ferny services and ask for improvements…

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Three New Aldermen on Windsor Council Gillespie Mayor By 3-1 Majority

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 December 1965 · page 1

Three new aldermen were elected on Saturday to the Windsor Council, one of them, Mr Cecil Sullivan, topping the poll in First Ward (Windsor)…

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Colo Shire Council Returned Unchanged

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 December 1965 · page 13

On one of the lowest polls on record the six sitting members of the Colo Shire Council were returned in Saturday’s elections…

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