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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1897

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Newcastle Borough Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1897 · page 5

THE fortnightly meeting of the Newcastle Borough Council was held at the council chambers, Watt-street, last evening. The Mayor (Alderman D. Miller) presided and there…

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The Merewether Municipality. Lights and Drainage Wanted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1897 · page 5

BORROWING having been pretty freely resorted to in years gone by the Municipal Council of Merewether now finds its revenue severely taxed in meeting interest charges. At alt…

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Stockton Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 5

THE regular fortnightly meeting of this council was held last evening. There were present:—Aldermen O'Mara (Mayor), Hudson, Errington, Rees, Goodman, Asquith,…

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Wallsend Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 7

THE fortnightly meeting of this council was held on Tuesday evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman W. Bower), and Aldermen Abell, Wills, Sanders,…

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District Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 8

A meeting of members of the Maitland District Council was held at the East Maitland Mechanics' Institute yesterday afternoon. Mr. John Bowdon, the warden,…

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The Municipality of Adamstown. Works in Hand and Proposed. the Council's Financial Condition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 5

LIKE most other suburban municipalities, the Adamstown Council is just now without funds and consequently much necessitous work has to be left undone This can be…

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Wickham Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1897 · page 3

THE fortnightly meeting of the Wickham Council was held last evening. There were present:—The Mayor (Alderman Grahame), and Aldermen Frith, Fountain, Bond,…

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New Lambton Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1897 · page 8

THE fortnightly meeting of this council was held last evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman M Gray), and Aldermen Thomas, Bradley, Errington, Lay,…

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Municipal Cases. Stray Horses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1897 · page 7

Robert O'Connor and Cornelius Green, for allowing their horses to stray, pleaded guilty, and were fined 5s, with 2s 6d costs…

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Correspondence. Merewether Municipality. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1897 · page 8

SIR,—I would like to set you right in some of your remarks concerning our municipality, though, taking it all through, you are pretty correct in your strictures, for, verily, we are…

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The Waratah Municipality. a Competition in Lighting. How the Ratepayers' Money Has Been Expended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 5

IT is remarkably strange that while Waratah is the Toorak of Newcastle, it should also be the suburb in which almost all the slaughtering is done for the whole of this great…

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Carrington Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 8

7THE fortnightly meeting of this council was held last night, when the Mayor (Alderman Graham) presided, and. Alderman Rodgers, Garrett, M'Cann, Light, and Morison were…

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Greta Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 5

THE fortnightly meeting of the Greta Municipal Council was held on Monday evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman Thomas Jones), Aldermen Connelly, Jones,…

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Waratah Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 7

THE fortnightly meeting of the Waratah Council was held on Monday evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman H. C. Langwill), and Aldermen Edwards,…

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Lambton Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 4

THE fortnightly meeting of this council was held last evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman James Young), and Aldermen Palmer, Ward, Metcalfe, Coleman,…

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Carrington Recreation Reserve Reclamation. The Council Confers with the Resident Engineer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 5

IT will have been noticed by previous reports in these columns that owing to the shallowness of tipping at the No. 6 ballast run now working in the Carrington Reserve that Mr…

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Morpeth. Municipal Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1897 · page 8

At the usual meeting on Monday the full council was present. THE MAILS. Correspondence was read, the latter being…

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Hamilton Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1897 · page 5

THE regular meeting of the above council was held last evening. Present:—Aldermen J. Sharp (Mayor), Brogden, Gardiner, Keddio, Stewart, Lindus, Donn, Alexander, Jarvis,…

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Merewether Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1897 · page 2

THE fortnightly meeting took place last Tuesday evening. There were present: The Mayor (Alderman Williams), Aldermen Curry, Robson, Jones, Gow, Brett, Lingard,…

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Adamstown Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1897 · page 5

THIS council met last night, the Mayor (Alderman Robinson) presiding. There were also present:—Aldermen Gray, Pemberton, Thwaitos, Shaw, Kenney, Jennings, Brown,…

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