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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1904

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Municipal Valuator

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

Applications are invited in our business columns from gentlemen willing to act in conjunction with the Council Clerk in making a valuation of the rateable…

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A Municipal Loan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 5

The City of Wellington is issuing a loan of £330,000 at 4 per cent. with a minimum of 96. The amount has been underwritten…

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Dungog. Municipal Council

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 7

A special meeting of the council was held on Friday evening to fix a charge, for the sanitary service for the next 12 months. The Finance Committee brought in an estimate of…

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The Borough Council Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

The nomination of candidates to fill the annual aldermanic vaeancies in the local boroughs took place at took to-day, with the follow ing results: WEST MAITLAND…

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The Municipal Election

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 2

The public announcement of the nominations for the ordinary vacancies in the local Council, occasioned by the retirement, by rotation, of…

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Army Reform. Some Drastic Changes. Commanders-in-chief Abolished. Army Council to Be Appointed. New Measures, New Men. London. Feb. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 5

Viscount, Esher, Admiral Sir John Fisher, and Colonel Sir George Sydenham Clarke, R.E. the committee appointed to advise as to the creation of a Board for the administrative…

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Borough Council Elections. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 7

The nominations for aldermen to fill the vacancies in the Singleton Borough Council took place at the Council Chambers on Tuesday (yesterday). Precisely as the clock struck 12 the…

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Municipal Reform

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 4

Sir, —A little over 12 months ago I addressed a letter upon the question of [?]ng land values, to the press of the State. About 100 papers were…

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Municipal Elections. Married Women's Vote Challenged

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 1

MESSRS, SPARKE and Millard, solicitors, have brought the following interesting point under the attention of Alderman Cann, the Mayor of Newcastle, and…

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Municipal Council

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 2

THE Council met on Wednesday night last, when there was a full attendance of aldemen, the retiring Mayor (Ald. Parker) being in the…

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Municipal Nominations

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 2

On Tuesday last at noon a large number of ratepayers and others inter eated, assembled at the Council Chambers, to hear the views of the…

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Correspondence. Municipal Reform. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 2

SIR,—A little over twelve [?]hs ago I addressed a letter, upon the question of rating land values, to the Press of the State. About 100 papers were…

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Muswellbrook Municipal Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the abovenamed Council was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday, evening last. There were present:—…

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Privy Council Appeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 5

In the Privy Council appeal case Henderson versus Daniell judgment has been reserved…

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Municipal Eelction. The Polling

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

The polling for the election of three aldermen to fill the vacancies in the local Municipal Council, caused by the retirement through effluxion of time of Aldermen Lang,…

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Municipal Nominations

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

The official nomination of candidates for the positions of aldermen and auditors in the local Municipal Council look place at the Council Chamber at noon on Tuesday…

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Local and General News. Municipal Election

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

We would remind ratepayers that the polling for the election of aldermen and auditors for the local Municipal Council will take place at the Council Chambers…

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Municipal Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 4

The annual municipal elections were conducted yesterday in East and West Maitland and Morpeth. In West Maitland much less interest than usual was taken in the election, and in East Maitland the…

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Local News. The Municipal Elections

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 4

The municipal elections for Singleton and South Singleton occur to-day, and the result will not be, unnaturally, awaited with some eagerness by not only the…

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The Singleton Argus. Saturday, February 6th, 1904 Municipal Reform

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 4

IN this issue of the ARGUS we publish an interesting treatise upon Municipal Reform from the pen of Mr A. G. Huie, Sydney, who has given this…

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