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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1951

1,180 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 59

Shire Council Spends £17,000 New Trucks [?] Early [?] Extensive Programme of Works To Be Carried Out

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 1

Further progress was made at the last meeting of the Shire Council to bring into operation the scheme of giving ratepayers better roads and for the keeping in good repair roads…

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Council Wants Barrage Removed

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 1

Lower Hunter Shire Council doodled to-day to co-operats with port Stephone Shire Council In asking the Hunter Valley…

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Shire Receives £6,240 Grant Murrurundi News Bowls

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 2

The results of the No. 2 pennant matches between Quirindi and Murrurundi, played on Murrurundi green, are as follows (Quirindi…

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Council Rates and Pensioners What Is the Position

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 3

A local pensioner wrote to a Sunday newspaper and asked if old-age pensioners could be given relief from payment of rates to the Municipal…

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Land Offered to the Council for New Hall

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 1

Later in the meeting a letter was tabled from Mr. H. T. Cowing, offering to sell to the Council his block of land in…

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Cr. Davies Remarks Against Shire Engineer Ratepayers Complain About Leighton Park Crossing

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 2

When a letter from two ratepayers passed remarks about the Shire Engineer, (Sir. J. J. Beatie), exception was taken by one of the Shire Councillors…

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Tomalla Potato Growers Ask Shire for Assistance Crops Lost Through Bad Roads

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 2

BECAUSE OF THE BAD STATE OF THE ROAD ON TOMALLA, SOME GROWERS HAD LOST THEIR CROPS. This had occurred when transport carrying the…

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Shire Rates Will Be 5½d. in the £ U.C.V. a Special Meeting of the Council Was Held on Friday Last, to Make the Rate for 1951

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 1

The Shire Clerk (Mr. P. E. May), reported to the meeting that the limit for the general fund, as now approved by the…

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Scone Municipal Hall No Tenders Received for Sale of Scone's Only Public Building Repairs to be Carried Out

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 1

The Scone Municipal Hall will not be disposed of, as no tenders were forthcoming after the building had been put up for sale. This matter was…

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Shire Council To Purchase Road Plant Raymond Terrace

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 4

At a special meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Council, a report from a sub-committee was unanimously adopted,…

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Shire Matters

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 5

At the February meeting of the Fort Stephens Shire Council the following various matters were discussed:…

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Merriwa Shire Council Monthly Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 6

The usual monthly meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council was held on Wednesday last, when the following were present: Councillors J R. Collins…

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Question Of Swimming Baths Discussion by Merriwa Shire Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 10

Under the heading: "Town Improvement—Provision of Swimming Baths and Recreation Areas," the Shire Clerk' at the last meeting of the…

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Reply to Mayor

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 1

The Mayor of Maitland, Ald. J. Harvey, today racelyed a telegram from the Minister for Social Services (Mr. Finnan) In…

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Merriwa News Showground Buildings and Appointments. Deputation Asks Shire Council for Repairs

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 10

A deputation from the council of the Merriwa Show Association, comprising Messrs J. F. Leitch, W. H. Redhead and J. L. L. Tink, waited on the Shire Council at its last meeting and asked that repairs be effected to the buildings on the showground before the annual Show in…

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Amalgamation of Shire and Municipality Minister Asked for Report

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 1

The question of the amalgamation of Cessnock Municipality and Kearsley Shire areas was raised by the…

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Decision Reserved On Shire Claim

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 2

Decision was reserved in a test case tor local governing bodies heard at Cessnock District Court yesterday before…

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Myxomatosis Plan Was Delayed by the Mayor Tells of Local Alarm

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 4

Inoculation of rabbits with myxomatosis was delayed for an hour in Singleton today while the Mayor (Ald. A. J. Dorsman) conveyed to the Pastures Protection Board the alarm being felt by some residents…

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Flood Damage. £6890 Grant for Merriwa Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 5

Mr. R. B. Nott, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Minister for Works, Hon. J. J. Cahill, M.L. A.:—…

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"Council Can't Grant. Lease." Bowling Club's Applications

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 1

Letters read at Wednesday's meeting of the council from the Local Government Association stated that the council was not…

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