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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs
2,238 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 112
A report was submitted by the Shire Clerk (Mr. W. J. Grieve) at a meeting of the Kearsley Shire Council last night regarding the position of the Pelton…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Since the council had increased its rates during 1938 by ¾d in the £, the total of £2975/3/1 owing on December 31 compared favourably with the position at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—Now that the holidays are over and people are settling down to business again, I would like to draw the attention of residents generally, and of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The action of the Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. G. W. Jenner) in requesting the Prime Minister to prevent the Dalfram from coming to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Alderman G. W. Jenner had plain sailing at the helm of the City Council at the first meeting of the year last night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Greater Newcastle Council endorsed the Mayor's action in granting permission to the George Sorlie travelling show to occupy railway land off Hunter-street during the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Reduced fares, not exceeding the charge on the former ferry service, and an improved timetable will apply to the combined ferry and omnibus service to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A protest against the property valuation increases in Newcastle. Hamilton, and Inglewood, was voiced by Ald. Richardson, supported by other aldermen, at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Many motorists driving cars in Newcastle were not fit to hold licenses, declared Alderman R. G. Pittar at a meeting of the City Council last night. Their eyesight, he claimed, was so…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The City Council last night congratulated the Mayor (Ald. G. W. Jenner) on his recent efforts to prevent the Dalfram from coming to Newcastle to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The State Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association (Mr. H. L. Denford), who was engaged in Newcastle yesterday before the Industrial Commission,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The question of a knighthood for Ald. Griffiths was reopened at the Greater Newcastle Council last night. Ald. Pittar asked when the Mayor (Ald. Jenner)…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two waterholes at Wickham which have cost three lives in drowning fatalities are being filled in by the City Council…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The companies which will share the Greater Newcastle Council's £8200 insurance contracts were selected after a brief discussion last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Unless satisfactory arrangements are made immediately, the City Council will launch wholesale prosecutions in all wards of Greater Newcastle, for the recovery of charges due for concrete footpath paving [?]erbing and guttering, arrears of rates…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Queensland branch of the Australian Workers' Union, which has more than 50,000 members, has withdrawn its affiliation with the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Six garage proprietors, including a widow, will lose their livelihood if the Young Municipal Council enforces its ban on all kerbstone petrol pumps in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Abandonment of the party caucus system in the Sydney City Council has been suggested by Labor aldermen to the Civic Reform Party. Despite the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The City Council is appealing to Newcastle residents to inform the Chief Health Officer (Mr. J. a Meddows) of any suspected mosquito breeding…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A conference convened at Cessnock by the South Maitland District Council of Unemployed and Relief Workers decided to call upon the Labour Council of New…
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