Shire Seeks £7,000 Flood Damage Grant
Wallarobba Shire Council decided last Tuesday to make application to the Department of Public Works for a grant of £7,000 to subsidise restoration works on roads and structures…
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Council & local affairs, 1954
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Council Administration
In our report of the discussion on Council administration at last Wednesday's meeting, Ald. R. Cousins, commenting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Of Ministers For Kenya
NAIROBI (AAP-Reuter): Africans are likely to get a second ministerial post in Kenya’s proposed Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arts Council Move On Foreign Films
Maitland branch of the Australian Arts Council (NSW division) will hold its annual meeting to-night, at the City…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proportional Representation or First Past the Post Council Discusses New Method of Voting First Past Post System Favored
Muswellbrook aldermen last Wednesday discussed whether proportional representation or the first past the post system should be the method used for the election of Local Government bodies. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallarobba Shire Council Engineer's Report
Mr. J. Stewart (engineer) reported as follows:— The following works have been completed or placed in…
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The Department of Local Government has asked Cessnock Municipal Council to reconsider seriously its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Zone Council Meeting
Maitland branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council will hold its-tenth annual meeting next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the…
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NEWCASTLE : Newcastle City Council decided last night to ask the Minister for Local Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Objection to Shire Men Camping on Park
Gresford District Agricultural Society asked Wallarobba Shire last meting to instruct its employees not to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rutile on Broughton Is. Stroud Shire Wants Royalty
Stroud Shire Council decided at its last meeting to seek a royalty on all rutile mined on Broughton Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ratepayers Petition Council to Repair Gresford Roads
Fifteen graziers and farmers of the Carrabolla district, near Gresford, last Tuesday petitioned Wallarobba Shire Council to construct a number of developmental works in their area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Immediate Rise Likely in Electricity Charges City Council Department’s Results “Very Pleasing”
Maitland will not have to more for its electricity immediately the new bulk supply charges imposed by the Electricity Commission become effective an May I. Council decided loss night [?] examine the [?] position after the…
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Northumberland County Council forwarded a copy of estimates for the year 1954 and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muswellbrook Shire Council Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Muswellbrook Shire Council was held on Monday, when there was a full attendance of councillors…
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Lower Hunter Shire Council engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) has reported that the February flood caused £[?]831…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improved Postal Facilities, More Telephones Sought Federal Member Confers with Aldermen
Mr. Allen Fairhall, M.P., was present at a meeting of the Municipal Council on Wednesday at the invitation of the Mayor to hear requests for improved postal facilities, and the provision of more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland alderman claims: Hunter Councils not co-operating on flood prevention
Alderman Bendeich told this week's meeting of Maitland City Council that there was lack of co-operation between the councils of the Hunter Valley over river improvement…
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A complaint from the Road Safety Council of the dangerous condition of some of the roads and streets of the…
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The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Renshaw) will be asked to have Northumberland County Council take over…
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