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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1931

1,727 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 87

Pickering and Martin-dale Roads. Council's Plea for Assistance. Turned Down by Main Roads Board

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

Mr. W. Cameron, M.L.A., has been advised by the Main Roads Board that there is at present no funds available in order to give assistance towards…

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Municipal Rates

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

All index to good management is the sale of services at a minimum cost, at the same time" ensuring that efficiency shall be…

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Municipal Taxation The New Rate

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 8

For some considerable time the Cessnock Chamber Chamber of Commerce have endeavoured to secure a reduction in the valuation of…

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Heated Exchanges at Deputation to Shire Council Plain Speaks Loam Hates Eliminated Council's Attitude

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 2

The determination and unity of purpose so manifest at the meeting of the Ratepayers' Association held last Tuesday night, showed no abatement when a deputation met the Port Stephens Shire Council in the Council Chambers at…

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Shire Rates For Port Stephens Council's Decision Raymond Terrace

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 4

The rates for Port Stephens Shire were fixed tit the meeting of the council yesterday. A general rate of 2d was…

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UNEMPLOYED Request to Mayor Allocation of Grant

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 3

The Mayor of West Maitland (Alderman A. S. McDonald) received a deputation from Maitland unemployed, who requested that the men…

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Communist Meetings To Be Stopped Mayor's Statement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 5

Replying to a question at the meeting of the West Maitland Municipal Council on Tuesday, the Mayor, Alderman A. S…

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CRICKET North Coast Council

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 2

Mr. H. Hoytdon, secretary to the New South Wales Cricket Association, has written to Mr. J. N. Lintott, secretary to the Hunter Valley…

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City Valuations "Council Will Reject" SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 1

Alderman McEhlone said to-day that there was no likelihood of the City Council adopting the city valuer's new…

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Reduced Valuations Request to Council State-wide Agitation Raymond Terrace

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 4

Seldom has there been a gathering at Raymond Terrace. where the districts represented have been so diverse and the opinions so absolutely unanimous as at a meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Ratepayers' Association held last night to…

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Producers' Advisory Council Favours Reddeen [?] Rates Help Recovery Widespread Benefits Trade Stimulus

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 7

An important statement relative to the reduction of interest rates was issued in Sydney yesterday by the…

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WINGHAM Municipal Rates a Reduction Wingham

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 7

At the meeting of the Wingham Municipal Council, the following rates were struck for the ensuing year: General rate, 3 1/4d in the £…

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MUSWELLBROOK Municipal Council Rates Reduced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 7

At the fortnightly meeting of the Muswellbrook Council, official reports snowed that there had been very satisfactory progress in the electricity…

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Gold Bounty Council for Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 4

Draft regulations to be issued under the Gold Bounty Act were discussed in Melbourne by the newly formed Gold industry Advisory…

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Stroud Shire Council. Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 4

All the Councillors were present at the monthly, meeting of Stroud Shire Council held on Friday last. The President, Cr. C. T. Abbott, presided…

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Bouquet for Shire Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

"I think we should have that in the paper," remarked Cr. A. W. Thompson, President Muswellbrook Shire Council, when the following letter from Mr. G…

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Upper Hunter Shire Council

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

Monthly meeting held in Scone on Thursday last. Present: Councillors A. A. McDonald (President), J. P. Abbott, M. S. Kennedy, J. Riley, S. C. Collision…

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Wallarobba Shire Council. Engineer's Monthly Report

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 1

Mr. Engineer McGowen reported as follows at the meeting last week:— I have to report that, since last meeting, very little work has been…

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Dungog Municipal Council. Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

A meeting of the Council of the Municipality of Dungog was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday [?] January, 1931, at 8 p.m. There was…

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Labor League and Shire Council. Questions Asked. Councillor's Sons on Relief Work

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 1

At Friday's meeting of the Shire Council, the following letter, addressed to the President, was received from P. R.. Forsyth, hon. secretary, Denman…

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