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Murray · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

844 stories in Murray's papers · page 30 of 43

Council Piano’s First Use

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 September 1948 · page 7

Albury Council’s newly purchased £650 grand piano is expected to have its first official use on Monday October 1, when the…

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Business Before City Council Last Night

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 5

DEPARTMENT of Public Health advised Albury City Council last night that following a further investigation by departmental officers of proposed site for a sanitary depot fronting Hume Weir road,…

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Cricketers’ Requests to Albury City Council

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 12

ALBURY and Wodonga Cricket Association applied to Albury council last night for use of following grounds for coming season: Sportsground, Billson’s Park, Hovell st. and Alexandra Park (3…

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Weeds on Footpaths Ald. King Criticises Council

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 2

Charge that council was not coping with problem of weeds on footpaths in Albury, and that it did not intend to cope with them,…

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Stock Route Through East Albury Council to Co-operate with P.p. Board

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 3

Albury Council last evening decided to co-operate with the Albury Pastures Protection Board in urging the Lands…

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Shire Servants Fees Standardised

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 4

At its monthly meeting, the Carrathool Shire Council, after studying the present discrepancies in payments and allowances to…

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£5000 Loan Approved For Lockhart Shire

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 4

Lockhart Shire Council arrived at a most important decision at the September meeting, when it was decided that the shire plant and men employed in working the tractors, graders, etc., would, from now on, be employed in preparing certain specified roads for bitumen…

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£1800 Govt. Grant For Culcairin Shire Road Work

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 6

A meeting of Culcairn Shire Council received information from the Minister for Public Works and Local Government (Mr. J. J. Cahill) that an amount of £1800 had been made available to Council for road…

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Loyalty Oath Foe New Council Employes Singleton

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 2

Singleton Council has decided that all future council employes must take an oath of allegiance…

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Gouncil - Hospital Deadlock Municipal Council’s Emphatic No to Board's Plea for Water Exhaustive Three Hour Conference

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 1

Despite an exhaustive conference of three hours between Hospital Board delegates and the Municipal Council on Friday night, council’s reply to the board’s…

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Poor Response to Children’s Appeal Holbrook Shire President Concerned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 2

At yesterday’s meeting of Holbrook Shire Council the President (Cr John Boos) expressed concern at the poor response in…

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Wheatgrowers’ £10,000 for Privy Council Appeal

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 10

MELB., Tuesday: Australian wheatgrowers have raised more than £10,000 to provide funds for the Australian Wheat…

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No Extra Land for Holbrook ’Drome Decision Of Council Yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 9

HOLBROOK Council yesterday decided to abandon its proposal for acquisition of land on “Kinross” estate for extensions to Holbrook aerodrome. This action followed a communication from the Local…

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Memorial Bed in Albury Hospital Decision by Holbrook Council and Collector

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 10

Collection of funds towards maintaining Holbrook war memorial bed at Albury District Hospital, which was inaugurated…

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Shire Council

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Jerilderie Shire Council will be held on Thursday next, 7th October. PICNIC RACES…

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Carrathool Shire Council Twelve-hour Sitting

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

THE Carrathool Shire Council celebrated its return to the Goolgowi office last meeting with a twelve-hour sitting. The volume of business was not great but the whole morning was absorbed in a discussion, previously reported, on the Hillston…

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Carrathool Shire Road Works

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

At the last meeting, of Council, the engineer, Mr. Satterthwaite, reported on work over the past month. D.R. 1065 was about half finished;…

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"Chifley Council"

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 1

A letter received at last meeting of the Carrathool Shire Council likened that body to Mr. Chifley, suggesting that Merriwagga…

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Carrathool Shire Village Problems Discussed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

Carrathool Shire Council is not hopeful that, at present rate of progress, water will be connected to Carrathool this summer. This…

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Rabbit Problem on Shire Roads

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

Carrathool Shire, with over 4000 miles of road to keep rabbit-free, and without adequate plant even for its road work, sees no…

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