To Ask Mr. Spooner for More Works City Council Move Deputation On
When Mr. Spooner visits Newcastle on Tuesday he will be asked by the City Council to provide money to finance…
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Council & local affairs, 1939
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£18,000 PROGRAMME Tarro Council to Seek Loan Grant Bridge and Road Work Employ 50 Men for Two Years
Tarro Shire Council yesterday decided to interview the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. E. S. Spooner) and submit to him a bridge and road work…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Still "George Jenner" Mayor on Footpath Summonses
"I made a promise to fight the footpath battle for the people of Hamilton as an alderman of Hamilton Council…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minister's Hint on Culture Centre Council Plan Supported Merger Formula Suggested
Significant hints of the attitude of the Minister for Education to the Newcastle cultural centre project are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALD. R. PITTAR Knighthood Recommendation for Ald. Griffiths A.L.P. Council Objects
The action of Aid. R. Pittar, a Labour alderman of the Greater Newcastle Council, in recommending the former Mayor (Ald. A. Griffiths) for a knighthood was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. George Jenner Will Fight the Council Declares Hamilton Footpath Charges Are Illegal
"I am still as convinced as ever that if the Greater Newcastle Council attempts to make the ratepayers of Hamilton pay half the cost of Hamilton Council's footpath paving scheme it will be acting illegally. The only thing for the council to do is to select…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Get Together" Council and School of Arts Minister Writes to Mayor
The opinion that no time should be lost by the Greater Newcastle Council and the Newcastle School of Arts in framing an agreement to permit the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Moree Shire Chambers
Plans of the new chamber to be erected at Moree, were prepared in the offices of Messrs. Jeater, Rodd and Hay, of Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Plan For Road Safety: Doctor - Alderman Gives Some Suggestions
A stricter testing by opthalmic surgeons and qualified optometrists of applicants for motor drivers' licences is urged by Alderman R. G. Pittar, of the Greater Newcastle Council. He also suggests that persons with defective tight or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deputy Mayor Takes Up Mayor's Challenge Will Move to Make a Test Case Clarify Legal Position
The Deputy Mayor (Ald. E. Dunkley) will accept the challenge of the Mayor (Ald. G. W. Jenner) to make a test case of the Hamilton footpath issue, so that the legal position may be clarified…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Delighted" Says Mayor Prosecution of Son "Fight on at Last"
"I am delighted," declared the Mayor (Ald. G. W. Jenner) with a beaming smile when asked this morning to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial News Ironworkers' Council Delegates Meet To-day Armco Interim Award
The Secretary of Lysaght's employees' sub-branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association. (Mr. A. R. Dennison) will visit Sydney to-day for the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →To See A.L.P. Council on Knighthoods Ald. R. G. Pittar's Statement
Alderman Pittar, who at the first meeting this year of the Greater Newcastle Council again raised the question of a knighthood for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kearsley Shire Tenders
Tenders for the reconstruction of several bridges in country areas west of Maitland have been accepted by Kearsley Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mayor on Footpath Argument "Not Personal Issue"
"I have received the blessing of hundreds of people in all parts of the Greater Newcastle district in my footpath fight at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More Works for Newcastle Mayor's Request To Ministers
"District unemployed should be absorbed in works in the Newcastle district," declared the Mayor (Alderman G. W…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trades and Labor Council Desired at Maitland
A move to have a trades and labor council in the South Maitland district is being advocated by the South Maitland District Council of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tarro Shire Call Up
Sir,—I wish to congratulate Cr. Butler for his straight talk in regard to the employment of men for Tarro Shire works; that is, that the council should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Finances of Lake Shire
According to a report presented at, the meeting last night, the Lake Shire Council anticipates an income of £48,888 this year. Among the larger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mayor Faces Big Day With Smile
Before he arrived at the City Hall shortly after 9 o'clock this mottling, the Mayor (Alderman G. W. Jenner) who has been discharging his Mayoral office at high…
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