Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Council & local affairs, all years

Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

1,198 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 60

Council Prosecutes Ratepayer Failure to Connect Premises to Town Sewerage

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

AT THE THREE LAST SITTINGS OF THE SCONE POLICE COURT, A CASE OF INTEREST TO RATEPAYERS WAS HEARD BEFORE MR. HODGSON, S.M., WHEN THE SCONE…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Want Labour Council Officers Removed Alleged “Standover Tactics” Against Small Unions

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Friday.— The executive officer of the NSW Trades and Labour Council used “stand-over tactics” against small unions, it was at alleged at the meeting of Newcastle Trades Hall Council last night…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Branch Formed at Taree

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1948 · page 4

About 80 dairy farmers attended a meeting at the Belmore Hall, Taree, on Thursday, when a branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Petition for Better Road General Matters Before Shire Council

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 2

Over 30 primary producers and users of the road from Bowman's Crossing to Singleton petitioned the Patrick…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

35 Tons Over 3-Ton Culvert Shire to Investigate Load Limiting

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 1

A truck and semi-trailer, loaded with 35 tons of earthmoving machinery, crossed, at Fordwich recently, a…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

The Council and Sewerage Aldermen Discuss Recent Legal Case All Houses To be Connected Eventually

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

The matter of the Municipal Council's legal action against a ratepayer for failing to connect a residence to the town sewerage came up during the business of the meeting of Aldermen last night…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Scott Street Residents to Get Road Relief Council to Put Street in Order Postman Unable To Deliver After Rain

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

At last night's meeting of Scone Municipal Council it was decided to give some relief to those residents living in Scott Street by having the street gravelled for its full length…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Experts Fees “Staggered” Aldermen

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 3

Fees of a Melbourne architect and acoustic consultant, recommended by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to advise on acoustics at the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Road Plant For Shire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Wed. — Kearsley Shire Council at its meeting last night decided to purchase road making plant at cost of £7000…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

County Council

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 3

Maitland City Council last night appointed Ald. J. V. Kennedy as its representative on the Northumberland County Council…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Tragic Coincidence Death News to Three Aldermen in Three Minutes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 2

Three times within three minutes the meeting of Dungog Municipal Council on Monday night was interrupted by messengers summoning…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 1

At a meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council held in Sydney on the 22nd July, the President (Mr. E. J. Noble) extended a cordial welcome…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Power To In Gas Dispute Council To Take Matter To Local Govt. Association

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 2

Council had no statutory powers under the Gas and Electricity Act, the Ambition Act or any other act to intervere in disputes such as that which recently occurred at the Maitland gaslight Company’s works the gas inquiry…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Shire Subdivisions

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 3

Messrs, Mackenzie and Cunningham applied to the Port Stephens Shire Council for a subdivison in William and Irrawang Streets for the Estate of late J. J. Edstein…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Former Secretary On Show Council

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 4

Mr. M. A. Brown a former show secretary was last night elected as a member of the Maitland Show Council…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Show Council Reports Record Year President’s Appreciation of Public Support

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 4

In a report submitted to the annual meeting of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association [?] night, the president (Mr. W. E. Spake) said that the year had been a notable one…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Road Plant For Kearsley Shire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 7

Kearsley Shire Council, at his meeting an Tuesday night, decided to purchase road-making plant at a cost of £7000…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 5

At a meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, held in Sydney on 22nd July, the President, Mr. E. J. Noble, extended a cordial…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Deadlock in Stroud Council Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 7

At the monthly meeting of the Stroud Shire Council on Friday, three councillors— Crs. Flannery, Moore and Blows— walked out of…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Colleges for Industry National Training Britain Sets Up Advisory Council

Singleton Argus · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

Britain's Ministry of Education is setting up a chain of national training colleges for technologists, scientists and…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →