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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1913

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Muswellbrook Shire Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 2

The usual monthly meeting of the abovenamed Shire Council was held in the Council's Office, Masonic Hall, on Wednesday last. There were…

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Municipal Council

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 6

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Singleton Municipal Council was held on Thursday night. Those present were:— The Mayor (Alderman E. J. Head),…

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Singleton Letter. Municipal Council

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 3

A meeting of the municipal council was held on Thursday night. Present—The Mayor (Alderman Head), Aldermen McGowen, Burns, Seari, Jackson, Saunders,…

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Patrick Plains Shire. Monthly Minting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 7

The monthly meeting of the council of the above shire was held at the council chambers. Singleton, on Friday last, when there was a full attendance of councillors,…

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Lionising Harry Thaw. a Mayor's Visit. New York, Sept. 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 11

Harry Thaw, though a prisoner of the Federal authorities at Concord, New Hampshire, feels less the restraint of official custody. Yesterday he was allowed to…

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Day Labor v. CONTRACT. Wyaldra Shire Councillors' Views

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

At this last meeting of the Wyaldra (Mudgee) Shire Councilj a notification was recived from the public works Department to the effect that the award…

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Privy Council. Work of Judicial Committee. London, Oct. 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 3

Sir Samuel Griffith, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, in the course of an interview, said the present system of constituting the Judicial Committee of the…

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The American Elections. State and Municipal Contests. Mr. Sulzer Successful. York, Nov.5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

The New York Mayoral election resulted in the return of Mr. Mitchell, the Fusionist candidate, by a majority of 75,000 votes. The Fasionists have also retained control…

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Wallarobba Shire. Monthly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1913 · page 6

The regular monthly meeting was held on Wednesday, a full council being present, under the presidency of Councillor A. G. Laurie…

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Shire Council

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Council of the Shire of Patrick Plains, was held at the Council Chambers, Singleton on Friday last; when there was a full…

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Shire and Municipal Record. Excerpts From November Issue This Sparrow Pest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 3

Sparrows are decidedly unpopular almost everywhere, but in very few districts is the hopeiess task of exterminating them entered upon systematically. The Yongala…

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General Cable News. Loud Mayor's Show. London", Nov. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 5

The Lord Mayor's Show provided an interesting spectacle, reproducing the procession of 1693…

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Shire Clerk in Trouble. Writes Letter Pleading for Leniency

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 1

Edwin George Craddock, alias Chalmers, alias Colquhoun, 40, was charged at the Water Police Court, Sydney, with having stolen. £38/12/[?] the property of…

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Municipal Enterprise

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 3

Ballina Council is not to be counter out when it is a question of municipal enterprise. On a leased were of a Government reserve on Emigrant Greek, they have a…

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Cessnock Shire Council. Fortnightly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1913 · page 6

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Cessnock Shire Council was held at the council chambers, Cessnock, yesterday. Present—Councillors Edwards (president),…

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Main Roads Vote. an Indignant Shire Council. Minister of Works Blamed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1913 · page 2

There was general criticism of the Minister of Works (Mr. Griffish) at yesterday's meeting of the Cessnock Shire Council. The matter arose out of a communication from the…

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Colored Man Elected Mayor. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 November 1913 · page 3

The Town Council of Battersea has elected a colored man as Mayor. He was born in Liverpool. His father was a West Indian, and his mother Irish…

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Woolooma Shire Council

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 2

Regular monthly meeting held on 6th inst. Present: Councillors H. L. White (President), E. E. Campbell, E. G. Eagar, K. Kennedy, A…

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Municipal Council

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 10

The usual fortnightly meeting of the above council was held at the Chambers on Tuesday evening last, the Mayor, Alderman Fitzgerald,…

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Main Roads Grant and Shire Councils

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 2

THE position in which shire councils find themselves to-day financially is only one of the many acts of maladministration that is to be laid at the feet of the present…

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