Shire Wants On Straying Stock
Lower hunter Shire Council had directed its health inspector to warn owners of straying stock that they…
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Council & local affairs, 1952
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Woman Elected To Council
SYDNEY: A combined vote by the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly elected Mrs. Gertrude Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council to Fight Cancer
SYDNEY: The N.S.W. Premier (Mr. Cahill) said today the Government would establish a State cancer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Damage To Port Stephens Shire Roads
RAYMOND TERRACE: The engineer of Port Stephens Shire Council (Mr. A. L. Cook) reported to council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Floods Alderman's Views
While he sympathised with the people who had been affected by the Maitland floods, he believed that no homes…
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The Patrick Plains Shire Clerk (Mr H. Troman) and the Shire foreman (Mr. T. Jackson) this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extension of Shire Road
Cr. L. Shearman told For Port Stephens Shire Council that an area of land would be made available to the shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Request For Reduced Lighting Rate For Tennis courts Rejected by Municipal Council
The hon. secretary, Park Tennis Club, wrote to Wednesday's meeting of the Municipal Council, asking council to review the…
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Rates paid by the Cessnock-Kurri Ambulance for the premises at Weston will be refunded, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Move For Show Holiday In Shire Fails
A move to have a public holiday proclaimed throughout Kearsley Shire area for the Cessnock Show failed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women's Petition to Council Want Street Tarred
History was made at Wednesday's meeting of the council, when for the first time a petition was received, signed by women only. Five women,,all residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Around the Council Table Business at Wednesday's Meeting
The fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Wednesday, when there were present:—Ald. R. Cousins…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Homes on Karoola Not Completed Council Records Alarm At Position
The Municipal Council on Wednesday adopted a Mayoral minute dealing with the non-completion of homes on Karoola subdivision. Ald. R. Cousins said there existed a threat of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire Moves to Have the Barrington Tops Road Opened Track Fenced Off By Private Owner
It was stated at yesterday's meeting of the Upper Hunter Shire Council that the only trafficable road to the famous Barrington Tops had been fenced off thus leaving no…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Payment of Rates by Instalments Council's Motion Not Aimed at Pensioners
The President of Kearsley Shire Council (Cr. P. Saxton) said on Tuesday night that the motion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£58,000 Flood Damage in Shire £1500 In Grant from State Government for Muswellbrook; £1000 for Merriwa
Of the £350,000 flood damage this year, Muswellbrook Shire damage caused in the last two floods amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kearsley Council to Reduce Outside Staff Further Retrenchments Later Funds for Expenditure Steadily Declining
Kearsley Shire Council decided, following a recommendation from the Engineer (Mr. L. Grattan) on Tuesday night, to reduce its outside staff of 69 by six and that those to go terminate their services on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Marching Display By Girls' Teams For Cessnock Sponsored by Cessnock Municipal Band
Arrangements have been completed for a display by the Australian Girls' Marching…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Insurance for Aldermen
The Under-Secretary of the Department of Local Government advised Newcastle City Council that provision was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire Opposes Amalgamation Prefers To Remain Rural President Resents Aldermanic Implications
A move by some 70 town residents urging the amalgamation of the Shire and Dungog Municipality into a united area as a Shire was very strongly opposed by Councillors at last Tuesday's meeting of Wallarobba Shire Council…
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