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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1919

823 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 42

Adamstown Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 5

Adamstown Council met last night, when there were present: The Mayor, and Alderman, Arthur, Davis, Saunders, Thompson, Jones, and Usher…

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Lambton. Municipal Amenities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 5

At the conclusion of the council meeting on Tuesday evening, the Mayor (Alderman Hardy) and the Mayor-elect (Alderman Charlton) entertained the…

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Maitland District. Municipal Inquiry. Maitland Sanitary Depot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 6

Mr. B. S. Stevens, senior examiner in the Local Government Department, with the powers of a Royal Commissioner, resumed the inquiry at the West Maitland…

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Merewwether Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 3

The Merewether Council met last evening. There were present the Mayor (Alderman R. Wells), and Aldermen Jefferson, Archer, Young, Ralph, Dunn, Dixon,…

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Newcastle Labour Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 5

The fortnightly meeting of the Newcastle Labour Council was hold at the Trades Hall last night. Mr. R. Marjoribanks presided…

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Sports Ground Call to the Council

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 6

"Scriptus" comments on Mr. A. H. Terry's agitation for the retention of the Sports Ground for sports purposes. This agitation, he says, arose…

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Arbitration Anomaly Centralised Court Labor Council Protest

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 6

Mr. Musgrave told Newcastle Labor Council last night that clause 35 or the Arbitration Act played into the hands if the centralising unions. He quoted…

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Vocational Training Mr. Morby's. Visit Labor Council Criticism

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 3

The Repatriation Department on Sydney selected Mr. Morby, president of the Sydney Labor Council, and a prominent O.B.U. man, to…

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Peace Carnival Objection to Cost Actior by Labor Council

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 3

"Whatever money the Government and the municipal councils [?] st[?]ld be ex[?]ted in am[?]rating the distress [?] returned…

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Trades Hall Tenants Labor Council Challenge "Not Game to Act"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 5

There is no greater or baser conscription than that which attempts to rule the worker by force: than that which rules that if you do not believe…

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Commission or Council? Greater Newcastle Constitution Comprehensive Alternative Scheme Mr. Glassop's Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 5

The creation of a great city by unification as proposed would at once life the standing and importance of Newcastle to such a high plane in every sense, that a would prove a huge district advertisement by reason of the city immediately ranking in great…

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Wallsend Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

Wallsend Council met on Thursday evening, when there were present: The Mayor, Alderman J. Wilkinson, and Aldermen Abel, Reay, Harris, Morris,…

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The Labour Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

Sir,—"It was resolved that a deputation wait upon Mr. Grahame, Acting Minister for Labour and Industry, with a view to having regulation 35 of the Industrial…

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Examples From America Modern Civic Control Commission and Council Elect[?] Principle Essential

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

Mr. Clemont F. Poppleton, mechanical engineer, told the Greater Newcastle Royal Commission that he was an Englishman who had lived for 20…

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Municipal Enterprise

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 4

Who says that there is no humanity in public life; that the war has warped the souls of men; denuded them of generosity and fraternal…

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The Mayor's First Work

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 4

One of the first Hems in Alderman Gibson's mayoral policy of "work and not talk," should be to reach a definite stage of progress in the negotiations for council loans for the re-construction of Hunter-street roadway and for electrical extension. Both schemes have been officially endorsed,…

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Lake Macquarie Shire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 5

The Lake Macquaric Shire Council met at Speers' Point yesterday, those present being: President (Councilor Beath), Councilors Frith, Johnston, Desreaux, and…

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Unapproved Building Contractor and Council Waratah Prosecution

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 4

"It is to use anyone setting himself up against constituted authority," was the dictum of Mr. Gunn, S.M., in the Waratan Police Court to-day, in…

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Wickham Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 6

The Wickham Council met last evening. There were present: The Mayor, Alderman T. Armstrong, and Addermen Fegan, Colman, Popper, Jenner, Kirk, Gittins, Croft,…

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Newcastle Labour Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 7

Sir,—Re the challenge of the Newcastle Labour Council to the management committee of the Trades Hall, I may inform the council that the management…

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