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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1938

2,257 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 113

Council Decides for League in Cessnock Dispute

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 10

In its adjudication last night on the Cessnock Sports Ground dispute. Cessnock Council decided in favor of the Rugby League as against the Soccer…

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Parking Space for Congress Council and Police Confer

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 8

The problem of providing parking space for the large number of motorists visiting the Eucharistic Congress next week was discussed at…

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Sunday Sport at Gosford Council Seeks Advice GOSFORD

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 1

Gosford Rugby League Football Club applied to the municipal council last night for the use of waterside Park for Sunday football next season and…

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In Streets in Shorts Manly Council Seeks Advice Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 7

Manly Council is taking legal advice as to whether people can be prosecuted for parading the streets in bathing costumes or…

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Delegates Angry Treatment of Empire Games Athletes Council Criticised 'Arrangements were Bungled' SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 9

The Organising Council of the Empire Games was strongly criticised at the 18th biennial conference today of the Amateur…

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How Brick Companies Bought State Works Combine's Secretary Gives Evidence "Council Fixes The Price" SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 1

The story of how the brick companies in Sydney banded together to buy the State Brick Works was told at the Royal Commission into the sale of State enterprises to-day by Bertram Anthony Mosely, Percentage of sales made by each yard. The £100,000 borrowed from a bank to complete the purchase was being paid from the same pool. In 1933, he said, some of the brick yards were receiving…

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East Maitland Loan Favoured Necessary Municipal Works Alternate Amounts Suggested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 11

Unanimously endorsing the suggestion in a mayoral minute that the council negotiate for a loan to carry out necessary works the East Maitland Council last…

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'Bus Service Carrington Alderman's Forecast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 8

According to a statement by an aklerman at Carrington Council last night, the tram services will be replaced by buses within a few months…

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Hexham Swamps Drainage Mayor's Reply to Expert

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 11

"There was once a time when it was said that the Sahara Desert was unreproductive; now it is being irrigated from the waters of…

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Council's By-election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 11

The nominations of Frederick Owen Faliey and John Thomas Fuge were received by the Town Clerk (Mr. E. W. Williams) yesterday afternoon to contest…

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Carrington Council to Raise Loan

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 8

To supplement a Government grant of £7000, the Carrington Council decided last night to apply for a loan of £5500 for improvement schemes at…

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Near Nature Costumes Shock Mayor Girl Shoppers In Coogee SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 11

Saying he did not think it edifying to see men and women in abbreviated costumes going into shops at Coogee and Maroubra, the Mayor of Randwick…

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Loan Approved For Park Improvements Carrington Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 13

Carrington Council decided last night in affix the seal to the application for a loan of £5500 to carry out a park improvement scheme at Connolly Park and…

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Wickham Council Styx Creek Bridge Scheduled for Reconstruction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 13

The Mayor (Ald. A. I. Davies) informed Wickham Council last night that he had interviewed the Assistant Secretary of the Hunter District Water Supply and…

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"No Preference" Local Labour and Material Youth Council's Concern

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 13

Concern that preference was not given to local labour and material was expressed at a meeting of the Northern New South Wales Youth Council, held at Newcastle…

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Housing Shortage Greater City Candidates to be Approached Youth Council Discussion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 2

Newcastle's most acute problem was the house shortage, said Rev. A. R. McVittie of a meeting of the Northern New South Wales Youth Council last…

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Health Policy Nutrition Council Proposals Basis for Ministers' Talk Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 10

The Commonwealth Director-General of Health (Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston), who is Chairman of the Advisory Council on Nutrition, said to-day that certain of the…

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Sunday Sport Gosford Council to Get Legal Advice Football Request Deferred Gosford

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 9

Following the ban on Sunday sport on waterside Park on June 26 last year unless permission was secured from the council, Gosford Council decided last…

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On Mondays Lake Shire Council Meetings Swansea Erosion Another Appeal to Minister

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 20

Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided last night to change the day of the meeting from Thursday to Monday. The next meeting will be held on Monday…

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Road Council of Young Peers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 10

A body has Just been formed in England, mainly of young peers with a personal and practical knowledge of road conditions, whose object is to…

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