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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1936

2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 125

Housing Position Investigation Committee Mayor Seeks Details

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

Asked yesterday if he had been informed whether the Housing Conditions Investigation Committee, recently appointed by the Government, would include Newcastle,…

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Tarro Shire Buildings Worth £49,100 Approved No Typhoid in 1935

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 9

Daring 1935 there was a complete absence of typhoid fever in Tarro Shire, not one case having been notified. The number of notified cases of infectious disease…

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Relief Work Council Control to Cease Maitland District

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

Letters received by East and West Maitland Councils from the Department of Labour and Industry disclose that from January 13 the control of relief…

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Trade Improves Bolwarra Shire Building

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 16

There was a big improvement in the building trade in the Bolwarra Shire during last year. The council approved of 25 building applications at an…

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Mr. Eden Study Egyptian Question League Council Agenda (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, January 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 10

The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden), who has been spending a few days in the north of England, returned to the Foreign Office to-day. Next…

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Busy Programme Is Ahead City Aldermen Will Meet To-night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

Newcastle City Council aldermen will meet for the first time in the new year to-night, when the General Pur­poses Committee will assemble at the…

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Saety Zones at Hamilton Council Interviews Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 4

A request that raised areas on the main road from Broadmeadow to the city be proclaimed safety zones was made by a deputation from Hamilton…

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Miners' Leaders Support Plan for General Stoppage Vital Meeting of Council Serious Effect of Proposed Action on Coalmining Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

The proposal for a general stoppage in the coalmining industry until the licensing clauses of the Transport Workers Act are withdrawn from the seamen, has been endorsed by the Central Council of the Miners' Federation…

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Hunter Stock Bridge Kearsley Shire Approves

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 7

The Maitland Pastures Protection Board received from Kearsley Shire Council yesterday a letter approving the proposed site of a stock bridge across the…

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Defy Council Possibility in Queensland Stand by Arbitration Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 5

Mass meetings of miners will be held throughout Queensland on Thursday attitude to the district's attitude to the strike…

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Council Meeting Lapses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 9

The special meeting of the Cessnock Municipal Council called for last night to discuss the estimates for the year lapsed for want of a quorum…

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Cessnock Council Meeting Papses

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 6

Cessnock Council's estimates for the year were to have been considered at a special meeting last night, but the meeting lapsed for the want of a…

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Sydney County Council Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 5

The Sydney County Council to-day held its first meeting since it took over the control of the electricity undertaking of the city. Cr. S. A. Lloyd was re-elected…

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Works Progress at Stockton Council Gratified

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

The rate for Stockton in 1936 will be 7d In tho £, the same as last year. The rate is mode up of 5d for the…

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BORROWED £300,000 Brisbane City Council BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 6

To enable important council works to be carried out the Lord Mayor (Ald. A. J. Jones) on behalf of the Brisbane City Council, to-day completed…

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Gully Line Tram Service Departmental Reply to Lambton Council

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

Recently Lambton Council wrote to the Department of Road Transport and Tramways asking for an explanation of the slow tram service…

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Lambton Council Newcastle Transport Policy Mr. Maddocks to Decide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 9

The Department of Road Transport and Tramways advised Lambton Council last night that the future transport policy for Newcastle would be decided when the…

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Council's Powers Erection of Petrol Tanks Mr. Bluett Tells Wickham

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 5

The Town Clerk of Wickham (Mr. W. A. Miller) has received from the Secretary to the Local, Government Association (Mr. A. R. Bluett) a reply to a…

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Trades Hall Council Committee Behind Seamen Defend Working Class Conditions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 6

Following a meeting of the executive committee of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council last night, to consider the seamen's dispute and the attitude of the…

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Change in Relief Work Scheme East Maitland Council Is Concerned

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

In an effort to pers[?]ade the Government to recor[?]der its decision to withdraw unemployed from emergency relief work and to place them…

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