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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1912

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West Maitland Municipality. Council Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 6

The fortnightly meeting of the council if the municipality of West Maitland was held last evening. The Mayor (Alderman Thursday presided, and there were present…

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Cessnock Shire Rate. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1912 · page 5

The Cessnock Shire Council at a special meeting this morning struck a general rate of 2d in the £. A proposal for a rate of 1½d in the £ was defeated…

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Cessnock Shire Council. Ordinary Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 2

The Ordinary meeting of the Cessnock Shire Council was held at the shire offices. Cessnock, yesterday. Present—Councillors Morgan (President). Mc Namara, Edwards,…

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Tarro Shire Council Fortnightly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 6

The regular meeting of the Tarro Shire Council, was held in the shire office, East Maitland, yesterday. There were present—,Councillors .Jacobs (president), Hickey,…

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The Shire Council. And the Broke Ratepayer. (To the Editor)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 3

Sir,—No doubt the ratepayers got a surprise on reading the account of the last meeting of the Shire Council in the local press, when they saw there the…

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A Progressive Mayor—town Improvement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 2

The Mayor (Alderman Flanders) has intimated his intention of proposing during the present year that the planting of the town be varied by the addition of a number…

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A Council on Its Dignity

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 January 1912 · page 1

The Glen Innes Municipal Council has cided to refuse the offer of the Board Health Department with respect to [?] latter body contributing £75 yearly…

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Municipal Council

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 2
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

Regular meeting held on Tuesday evening last. Present: The Mayor (Ald. Staffo[?]rd), Ald. Dunbar, Cooper, O'Brien, and Berman; also the…

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Letter to the Editor. East Maitland Municipality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 3

Sir,—With a sublime contempt for the financial position of this municipality, and to flatter his own vanity, the Mayor requests the ratepayers to attend a public…

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Muswellbrook Municipal Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 2

The ordinary meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday last, when there were present: The Mayor (Aid. H. R…

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Letter to the Editor. West Maitland Municipality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 6

Sir,—In your report of the above meeting in Wednesday's issue I note the following in a report of the finance committee:—" Another investigation and examination had been made…

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Municipal Water Brigade. Election of Offficers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1912 · page 4

A meeting of the West Maitland Municipal Water Brigade was held in the Town Hall Committee room on Monday. [?]Mayor (Alderman Thursby) presided [?]…

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Alderman Waller

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 4

Mr. J. H. F. Waller, president of the Maitland and District Chamber of Commerce, and the late Mayor of East Maitland, to which office he was successively elected for some eight…

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Municipal Election

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 4

The polling for the extraordinary vacancy in the West Maitland Municipal Council, caused by the retirement of Alderman Chant, took place on Saturday. The polling was fairly…

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Letter to the Editor. West Maitland Municipality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1912 · page 4

Sir,—In your issue of Saturday's I note a letter signed "Municipal," but as your correspondent appears, from reasons best known to himself, not open minded…

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Leiters to the Editor. Jubilee East Mattland Municipality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 January 1912 · page 2

Sir:—The public of East Maitland must not for one moment think that the principal. participants who sct. themselves out on saturday to block any suggestion that night…

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Mayor for 191?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 2

It is generally thought that Alderman H.R. Flanders will be re-elected Mayor for the current year on account of the very able manner in which he discharged the duties of the position during his…

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Cessnock Shire Election

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 4

Mr. George Brown, J.P. the selected candidate for A riding Cessnock Shire, announces in this issue that he will address the [?] in the School of [?]…

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Municipal Rate Notices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 4

For the first, time, we believe, in the history of the West Maitland Municipal Council, or at any rate during the past 20 or 25 years, so far as our knowledge goes, the…

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