Lake Shire Rate Reduction Likely
Lake Macquarie Shire to-night will give consideration to the estimates and the rate for 1931. It is likely that a reduction on the present general rate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1931
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Red Candidates for Cessnock Seats Council Vacancies
Communists will enter the field in the extraordinary election of Cessnock Council. Their campaign will have a unique…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A.L.P. COUNCIL Meeting at Hamilton
The monthly meeting of the Hamilton Electoral Council of the Australian Labour party was held on Saturday night. Mr. A. Hallinan presided, Correspondence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lang's Absence Is Resented Loan Council Met This Afternoon Melbourne
Financial problems having an important bearing on the future of the Commonwealth were to be discussed by the Loan Council, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Municipal Election Communist Nominees
The Communist party has decided to run two candidates for the municipal election at Cessnock, rendered necessary by the resignation of Aid. Girvan and Snedden…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shire Opposes Municipality
Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided last night against the proposal to declare a municipality at Cardiff. The petition signed by the ratepayers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire Committees Elected
The following councillors were elected to the various committees for 1931, at last night's meeting of Lake. Mncquarie Shiro Council:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lake Shire Unemployed
Lake Macquarie Shire Council was inundated last night by requests from the unemployed in various parts of the shire, particularly Cardiff and Kahibah, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland District Cessnock Municipal Council Reduction in Rates
A special meeting of the Cessnock Municipal Council was held last evening to consider a report of the Town Clerk (Mr. G. Cooksley), on the estimates for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah Council Relief Employment
Waratah Council met inst night. There were present the Mayor (Ald. W. H. Tripet), Ald. A. Griffiths, A. McGregor, H. J. Ireland, F. W. Whyte, O. J. Ellis,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RATIONED Waratah Council Men
Waratah Council has commenced to ration its employees, giving them one week off in six. The engineer (Mr. Rudd) informed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reduction in Rate Manning Shire Decision TAREE
A reduction in the rate from 2½d to 2d in the £ was decided upon by the Manning Shire Council after a vigorous debate at its meeting on Monday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lake Shire Complaints About Roads Problem of Unemployment
The first meeting for the year of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council was held last night. There were present—The President (Cr. H. Richards), and Crs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Council The New Appointments
Mr. T. Leslie, of Cessnock, who has been elected as one of the four representatives of the Northern Miners' Federation on the Miners' Central Council;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Round Trip Electric Trains for Boolaroo Lake Shire Scheme
At tho instance of the shire President, Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night adopted a minute, asking the Government to make available a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Speers' Point Trams Move to Electrify Lake Shire Decision
In moving at the meeting of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night that the Government be requested to electrify the Wallsend-Speers' Point tramway, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labor Nominees Cessnock Council Election Four Independents
Only three nominations have been received for the A.L.P. pre-selection ballot for the extraordinary Cessnock Council election…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It Approves Dismissal of Teachers East Maitland Council
"These women are neglecting their homes and are getting hirelings to rear their children," said Alderman J. Ferry, at East Maitland Council last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Delegates From Lambton Council to Meet Mr. Baddeley
Delegates at Lambton Council meeting last night, from Lambton Unemployed, suggested that as Mr. Baddeley and Mr. Cameron would be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stockton Council New Rate for Year Unemployed Relief Work
Stockton Council met last night. There were present—Ald. Soper (Mayor), Griffiths, Felton, Urquhart, Hodges, Opic, and Patterson…
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