Govt. Finds Fault with Shire Ridings "Electors Not Properly Represented"
Local Government Department dropped a bombshell at yesterday's Patrick Plains Shire Council meeting. It…
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Council & local affairs, 1949
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Charges for Electricity Complaint to Cessnock Council
Despite the fact that shopkeepers are not using electricity because of the restrictions they are still being charged the minimum for electricity…
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Cessnock Municipal Council decided on Tuesday afternoon to ask that per mite be grunted to Cessnock Bus proprietors to run services between…
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Latest move for a settlement of the coal. Strike was made by representatives of the Australian Council of Trade. Unions this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Repair Jobs Done by Shire Since the Flood Engineer Presents Month's Achievements
Patrick Plains Shire Engineer made it known before his report reached the reading stage at yesterday's Council meeting that it would be a long one. This was the result of the recent flood when the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stroud Shire Electricity
Electricity in Stroud Shire will be interrupted by the Railway Department on Wednesday, 3rd August, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog Municipal Council Fortnightly Meeting
Six aldermen were present at the meeting of Dungog Municipal Council on Monday night. The Mayor (Aid. P. H. Robinson) presided over…
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SINGLETON, Monday. — The Local Government Department has advised Patrick Plains Shire Council that examination of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mayor Seconds Motion Shire Criticism Cr. Pankhurst Replies to R.S.L.
The Mayor of Singleton, Aid. John McGrogan, seconded an R.S.L. resolution rejecting as non-applicable the following paragraph in a letter from Cr. A. F. Pankhurst, Patrick Plains Shire President:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Council Not To Call Aggregate Meetings Five Delegates Walked Out
SYDNEY, Monday.—Any hopes of an early end to the cool strike appeared to vanish yesterday when the Combined Mining Unions’ Council confirmed a decision of four coal industry craft unions that no aggregate meetings of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merriwa Shire Council. Monthly Meeting
The July meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council was held on Wednesday of last week, when the following were present: Councillor T. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nobody Wants To Be Mayor
HUBLI (Bombay Province): None of the 37 members of the Municipal Board here wants to become its President. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnoek Mayor's Relief Fund Appeal
A meeting of the Ministers or the various denomt[?]ations and representatives of the Cessnock Municipal Council was held in the Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Delegates Action Endorsed Walk-out at C.M.U. COUNCIL
The action of their delegates in walking out of the meeting of the Coalmining Unions' Council in Sydney on Sunday was endorsed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipality of Scone Supplementary Lists of Electors
NOTICE is hereby given that the Supplementary Lists of Electors of this Municipality are being compiled, and will be exhibited at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire Championships Begin Week-end
Patrick Plains Shire Championships will begin at Howe Park tennis court on Saturday and will be contested by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →City Council Meeting
The next meeting of Maitland City Council will be held on Tuesday night. The past few meetings, owing to lighting restrictions, have…
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Just as councillors of Lower Hunter Shire Council were this morning about to take the vote on a resolution over the departmental…
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All persons over 21 years, and whose names are on the roll are compelled to vote (or risk being fined) at next Saturday's Municipal Election…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Damage In Lower Hunter Shire
In a special report to the meeting Lower Hunter Shire Council, the engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) said that the heavy rains of this week,…
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