Moree Blaze Destruction of Shire Chambers MOREE
Fire destroyed the Shire Council Chambers, a weatherboard building, last night. The damage is estimated at £2500…
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Council & local affairs, 1938
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Show Council Lord Gowrie Invited Official Opening
The Maitland Show Council, at its meeting last night, decided to invite the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, to perform the official…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council of Burns Club. Picnic to Spiers' Point
The newly-formed Northern District Council of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies will hold a combined picnic to Speers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unemployed and Relief Workers. South Maitund District Council
The usual fortnightly meeting of the Council, presided over by J. Easton, was held in the unemployed room Cessnock on Sunday. Delegates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Defence Council Mr. Forgan-Smith's Views BRISBANE
The Premier, Mr. Forgan Smith, suggested that a Defence Council of Australia, which would advise the Loan Council and the Premiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dismissal of Council Employees "Political Colour" Given As Cause
Speaking for the Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union, which sought the reinstatement of five employees of the Glebe Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Port Stephens Shire Roads
The President of the Port Stephens Shire (Cr. G. J. Russell) expects that a start will be made in the New Year with a comprehensive road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Education. Loan Council to Be Asked Fok £5,000,000 SUBSIDY
A Sydney message slates that the Loan Council will be asked by the Teachers' Federation to provide funds to subsidise education in Australia to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New £4,000,000 Loan for Defence £20.000.000 Programme. States Reject Advisory Council Plan. Canberra
The Loan Council approved to-day of a proposal of the Federal Government to borrow immediately an additional £4,000,000 for defence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →163 Municipal Bodies Now
Before 1906 there was no local government outside the town areas. All the roads and other works in the rural districts were looked after by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scobie's Tunnel Report to Shire Council
An inspection was made during the week of Scoble's Tunnel, which drains farming lands at Oakhampton, by the assistant engineer of Kearsley Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CRITICISED Department of Railways Mayor's Comment
Criticism of the Department of Railways was evoked at a meeting oF East Maitland Council last night by a letter from the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Singleton's Duty In Defence Training Activities Inspiring Address by Lieut.-col R. W. Ogle Provides Valuable Stimulus Municipal and Shire Council, Chamber of Commerce, and Returned Soldiers Promise Co-operation
In an inspiring address on the urgency of building up the defence of Australia to a standard compatible with the ever-increasing risk of invasion, the Commanding Officer of the 13th Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Ogle, last night, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Ouster Melbourne
In the Practice Court, by an order issued by Mr. Justice Lowe, George Alexander Paine, of Newport. was ousted from the Williamstown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Survey Will Be Made Of Proposed Road To "Tops" Decision of Municipal Council
It was announced at the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night that the Municipal Council has decided to initiate an undertaking for the survey of the proposed tourist road via Carrowbrook and Mount Royal to the Barrington Tops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Question Time East Maitland Council
During question time at East Maitland Council last night, the Mayor (Ald. H. C. Morton) told Ald. A. J. Baker that he would instruct the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£553 INCREASE Council's General Fund Auditor's Report
The auditor's report for the half year ended June 30. 1938, presented to East Maitland Council last night stated that the rate levied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →E.M. COUNCIL Diphtheria Campaign Issue of Forms
East Maitland Council, at Its fortnightly meeting last night, decided to issue consent forms to parents In the municipality with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Butchers Protest Running Costs of Proposed E.M. Council to Inquire
In a letter to East Maitland Council last night, the Master Butchers' Association, of New South Wales emphatically protested against the proposed purchase of the bacon curing works at Rutherford for use as abattoirs for the production of meat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kearsley Shire Council. Fortnightly Meeting
Kearsley Shire Council met on Tuesday night, when there were present Crs. P. Saxton (president), A. E. Collins, A…
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