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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1937

2,531 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 127

Cessnock Kearsley Shire Meeting of the Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 13

The fortnightly meeting of the Kearsley Shire Council was held last night. The President (Cr. W. Varty) occupied the chair, and there were also present…

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Tourist Bureau Lake Shire Council's Views Representation Needed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 13

Exception was taken at the meeting of Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night to statements made at the meeting of Newcastle City Council on January 18…

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Deadlock New Council of Erina Shire Gosford

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 1

Trouble again besets Erina Shire Council, called together to-day for its first meeting. The new council reached a…

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Aldermen Set Good Example Voting for the Abattoir Board

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 6

Virtually the Abattoir Board election is all over, as the majority of the alderman electors, no doubt, with the laudable objective of setting a good…

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New Deadlock Possibility at Erina Shire Council to Meet To-day Gosford

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 10

The Shire Clerk (Mr. M. C. Ogden) announced to-day that the newly constituted Erina Shire Council would be called together to-morrow morning to…

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The Council Loan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 6

Up to the time of writing the City Council's £480,000 loan has not materialised. In fact, it looks as if the £480,000 is to be cut down to £250,000, for the…

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Playground for Children Mayor's Suggestion to Absorb Unemployed

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 6

Among the list of works which the City Mayor (Ald. H. Fenton) and Mr. F. H. Hawkins, M.L.A., are submitting to the Minister for Works and Local…

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Council News Channel Rapidly Closing Clubs' Warning to Lake Council

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 6

Concern at the rapid silting up of the channel entrance to the Lake was expressed by a deputation from the Lake Macquarie Yacht Club and…

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3d IN £ Lake Shire General Rate Catherine Hill Bay Needs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 9

At the meeting of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night, it was decided that the general rate be 3d. in the £— the same as last year…

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On Old Basis Kearsley Shire Relief Work Minister's Instruction Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 10

The emergency relief schema will be continued in the Kearsley Shire until further notice. The 10 per cent. Government subsidy to councils operating the relief…

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Lake Entrance Extension of Silting Deputation to Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 10

Fears that the entrance to Lake Macquarie would silt up to such an extent that yachts would not be able to enter were expressed at the meeting of Lake…

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Council Abolished Darwin Under New Control CANBERRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 12

By the abolition of the Darwin Council, announced in to-day's issue of the "Commonwealth Gazette." the town has been brought directly under the control of the…

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Council Meets Trades Hall Affairs Aid for Spanish Workers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 16

The senior Vice-president (Mr. White) presided at the meeting of the Newcastle castle Trades Hall Council last night. The Minister for Local Government…

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Dispute Settled Alexandretta and Danzig League Council Session London, January 27

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 12

All the outstanding questions on the agenda of the Council of the League of Nations, with the exception of those affecting Spain, were settled to-day before…

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Thirty Lives Lost In Shipwreck— Mayor Inspects Council Works

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 8

A AERIAL view of the Finnish motor vessel, [?] [?]horden, smashed in two in the Pentland, Firth, Scotland, after running into a fierce gale on her maiden voyage from New York. Thirty people, including women and children, were drowned…

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New Deadlock Erina Shire Council No Chairman Appointed Gosford

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 12

For the second time in 12 months, Erina Shire Council failed to function to-day. A deadlock was reached immediately the council met on the appointment of a…

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Mayor Inspects New Works Transforming the Beach Front

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 3

Out of a seeming chaos of concrete and rubble at the southern end of Newcastle Beach and Nobbys, a new…

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ALD. W. C. GRAHAME First Mayor of Gosford GOSFORD

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 10

At last night's meeting of the Gosford Municipal Council, Ald. W. C. Grahame, who is also a member of Erina Shire Council, and was formerly a Minister of…

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Two-way Traffic Coming in Scott-street City Mayor's Assurance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 10

The Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. H. Fenton) told the Newcastle and District Local Government Coordination Committee last night, in reply to the Mayor of…

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Sydney Labour Council Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 13

The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Orr) has been elected a member of the Disputes' Committee of the Sydney Trades and Labour…

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