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Murray · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1961

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Shire Engineer’s Report

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 2

The shire engineer, Mr B. Duggin, reported to the May meeting of council: Rain which fell during the…

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Council Correspondence

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 6

The following correspondence was dealt with at last week’s council meeting: From Department of Public…

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Shire Gets Swimming Pool Grant

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 2

Berrigan Shire Council has been advised of a grant for the construction of swimming pools in the shire…

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Council Discusses Swimming Pools

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 2

At last week’s shire council meeting, Messrs C. Thornton L. C. Abbott and I. L. Kay attended as a deputation…

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[?]tic Council [?]es £35 in Functions

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 1

[?]iquin Spastic Council, [?] concentrating on a Week Fund — rais-[?]paign, received £35…

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Conargo Shire Will Have New V.G. for ’63 Rates

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 1

The Valuer-General’s Department has advised the Conargo Shire Council that the valuation of the…

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Arts Council Future to be Decided May 26

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 3

The public meeting called by the Mayor. Ald. Campbell, to discuss the future of the Deniliquin branch of the Arts…

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Murray Shire Roadworks are Progressing Satisfactorily

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 7

The bitumen sealing on the Deniliquin-Wakool Road [?]ween the four and the nine mile pegs had been laid [?]n, the Murray shire engineer, Mr. G. Craig, report-[?] said the only work…

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Cr. Symons[?] Shire Deleg[?] on New Cou

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 8

At a special meeting Windouran Shire [?] morning, Cr. A. J. Sym[?] appointed the shire’s [?]…

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Council Undecided on Future of ‘Drome

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 1

Deniliquin Municipal Council is still undecided on whether to accept the Federal Government’s local ownership, plan giving Council control over the aerodrome here. The council discussed…

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Council O.K’S Land Lease for Kinder

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 1

Deniliquin Municipal Council has approved on principle an application by the Pre-School…

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Council Concerned at Damage to Roads by Farm Machines

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 3

An effort is to be made by the Conargo Shire Council to prevent damage being caused to bitumen roads in the shire…

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Council Should Build Plant Replacement Fund

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 May 1961 · page 2

Council should set aside a reserve fund for plant replacement. When considering the estimates this…

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Windouran Shire Could Billet 500 — Civil Defence People Told

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 May 1961 · page 6

The Windosran Shire Council has told the Civil Defence Organisation that the shire would be able to lake its allotted quota of 590 refugees from Liverpool near Sydney, in the event of nuclear attack…

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[?]Akool Shire Wants [?]O New Tip Trucks

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 May 1961 · page 5

[?] Wakool Shire Council at its last meeting decided [?] tenders for the supply of two five-ton tipping [?] for council’s work plant [?] agreed that the trucks…

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Spastic Council Man Addresses Rotary

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 May 1961 · page 1

A public relations officer who spends 40 weeks out of every year travelling through N.S.W. to promote the cause of spastic children, has just completed a brief visit to Deniliquin…

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[?]Kool Shire Proposal to [?]End £34000 on Roads

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 May 1961 · page 7

[?]edworks totalling £34,000 have been proposed [?] Wakool Shire Council for its 1961/62 Common-[?] Aid Roads programme. [?] engineer said he had…

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Public Meeting Asks Art Council to Continue

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 May 1961 · page 8

A public meeting called by the Mayor of Deniliquin, Ald. Campbell, last week carried a vote of…

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Council Sued for £385 Police Investigate the “Roller Cheque” Mystery

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 May 1961 · page 1

The Mayor of Deniliquin, Ald. Campbell, today admitted to a “Pastoral Times” reporter that a Victorian man had stated his intention to sue the Municipal Council for a large sum of money…

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Council Agrees to Build £47,000 Admin. Block

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 June 1961 · page 1

Construction on the £47,000 municipal council administration offices is expected to start within three months. The council this week decide by four votes to three to build the administration block on the site originally proposed—at the rear of the existing Town Hall…

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