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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1914

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Morpeth Municipality. Election of Mayor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 3

There was quite an unusually large attendance at the Council-chambers, Morpeth, last evening to assist at the election of Mayor of the municipally, the occasion…

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Municipal Council. Ald Sherwood Mayor

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 2

Regular fortnightly and first meeting of the newly-elected aldermen of the above was held on Wednesday evening last. Present : Ald…

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Woolooma Shire Council. Councillor White Re-elected President

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 7

THE first monthly meeting of the newly-elected Shire Council was held yesterday, when there were present: Councillors H. L White (President), A…

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Municipal Council

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 2

On Thursday night a meeting of Aldermen took place, when the principal business was the election of Mayor for the present year. The…

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The Coming Mayor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 3

Who Mr. Flander's successor in the Mayoral chair for the coming year will be is at present a matter of speculation. Some of the aldermen re-elected have held there positions…

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Bolwarra Shire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

Messrs. D. Ferry, H. A. Fry, mid Angus McGregor will return thanks to the ratepayers of A riding from the balcony of tho Courthouse Hotel, Paterson, on Monday…

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Mayoral Election. Alderman Porter Re-elected at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 6

The special meeting of the East Maitland Municipal Council for the purpose of electing: the Mayor was held last, evening. There were present— Aldermen Porter,…

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Muswellbrook Shire Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the above Council was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday last, there being present: Councillors E…

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Shire President

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 3

A special meeting of the Patrick Plains Shire Council was held yesterday, for the purpose of fixing the president's allowance for the ensuing year, and electing a…

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A Shire Record

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 6

Councillor James Davidson, who was again elected last Saturday as one of the councillers for the Bulli shire, probably holds the record in this State for…

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Shire Elections. the Voting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 7

The polling for the Shim elections took place on Saturday. Considerable interest was manifested in the election, much more apparently than was the case with the…

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Election of Shire President

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

A special meeting of the Patrick Plains Shire Council was held yesterday for the purpose of fixing the president's allowance for the ensuing year, and for the…

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Council and Law Costs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 4

The disqualification of a merino ram owned by the Canowie Pastoral Company at the Adelaide September Show, 1912, and the subsequent action at law, in which the Royal…

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New Road-making Plant. Enterprise of West Maitland Council

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 13

New methods, of road-making are rapidly supplanting antiquated conditions of working. Scientific measures are being widely adopted, consequently many local authorities are…

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The Municipal Elections. Results of Polling

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 7

Polling at the triennial elections in the various municipalities on Saturday resulted in a number of surprises. One surprise was the small number of votes recorded. The…

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President Cessnock Shire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 4

At a special meeting of the Cessnock Shire Council to-day, Councillor T. L. Johns was elected acting President of the shire council, and also President for the…

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Privy Council

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 5

The Judicial Committee to the Privy Council, in the matter of the One Concentration Company [?] the Subside Cornorn…

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Patrick Plains Shire. First Monthly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 6

The first meeting of the newly-electric council was held at the shire council chambers on Friday, at 10.30 a.m., when there was a full attendance of councillors, viz…

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Municipal Budget

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 6

The Budget of the City of Paris, following the example of that of the State, also has its deficit—a very mild one, it is true, only 13,000,000, but the city fathers are…

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