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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1940

1,818 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 91

Lord Mayor's Visit Launch Personal Appeal for War Funds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1940 · page 10

Plans were practically completed yesterday for the visit of the Lord Mayor of Sydney (Ald. S. S. Crick) and the Lady Mayoress to Newcastle oil Tuesday…

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Maitland and District Bolwarra Shire Estimates Confirmed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1940 · page 11

The estimates for 1940 were confirmed at a meeting of the Bolwarra Shire Council yesterday afternoon. The estimated expenditure was £8436…

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Lake Shire Neglect

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 11

Sir,—"X," of Wangi Wangi ("Newcastle Morning Herald," January 8), complains of the neglect of the Wangi, Lake View and Arcadia districts by the…

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Council Award Conference

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 7

Officers of the Greater Newcastle Council, representatives of the Municipal Employees' Association, Electrical Trades Union and other unions to-day…

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Lake Macquarie Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 11

Sir,—I think Lake Macquarie Council gets too much abuse. People should ask themselves. "How much of this is our lault?" For instance, someone…

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N.e.s. in Lake Shire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 5

N.E.S. classes in the Lake Macquarie area will resume this week, the Chief Warden of the Lake Macquarie Shire (Mr. D. M. Whitson) said on Saturday. Mr…

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Lord Mayor to Visit Newcastle Public Meeting in City Hall

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 7

The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Aid. S. S. Crick) will visit Newcastle to-morrow to advise the executives of the Patriotic and…

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Some Mystifying Features Fire in Old Wallsend Council Chambers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 6

Wallsend Fire Brigade was called to a fire in the old council chambers in Metcalfe-street, Wallsend, shortly before 6.30 last night…

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New Fabric for Planes Scientific Council is Experimenting CANBERRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 8

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is experimenting with a new type of aeroplane fabric. The experiments are stated to have reached the…

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Became Lord Mayor After Four Years as Alderman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 7

FEW LORD MAYORS of Sydney have enjoyed such a sudden rise to council honours as Ald. S. S. Crick, who, with Mrs. Crick, will visit Newcastle to-day…

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Sydney's Lord Mayor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 8

THE LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY (ALD. S. S. CRICK) who will visit Newcastle to-day to advice executives of the Patriotic and War Fund on the policy of the fund…

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Sydney's Lord Mayor Welcomed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 8

THE LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY (Ald. S. S. Crick) came to Newcastle to-day to advise on the organisation of the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War Fund, He was welcomed at a civic reception by the Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. J. E. Wiggins). Left to right in the picture are: Ald. Wiggins, the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Crick), the Mayoress of Newcastle (Mrs. Wiggins). and Alderman Crick. While the Lord Mayor of Sydney (Ald. S. S. Crick) was being given a civic welcome in the council chambers to-day, the…

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Of Interest to Women Mayor's Secretary Farewelled

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 3

MISS R. GRACE (right), who has been secretary to a succession of Mayors of Newcastle and Greater Newcastle, was farewelled at a function at the City Hall yesterday. She is leaving the council service to be married. In this picture, taken after presentations had been made are (from left): Miss A Maisey, Miss E. Lindsay, Miss J. Findlay, and Miss Grace…

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Lord Mayor Here To-day Help Patriotic Appeal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 8

"I am confident that the Lord Mayor's visit will mark a turning point towards the intensified activity everyone in the district is waiting for," said the Mayor…

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Salary Bill of British Council London. December 12

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 2

Mr. A. M. Lyons, K.C. (Cons.. Leicester East), recently asked in the House of Commons for a list of salaries paid to officers of the British…

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Kurri Pensioners' March Coalfields Council Will Cooperate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 9

Further arrangements for the old-age pensioners' demonstrations were made by the Northern Coalfields District Council of the Old-age and Invalid Pensioners'…

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Council's Diphtheria Campaign 1940 Scheme to Start Shortly

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 8

The Health Department of the Greater Newcastle Council will begin the organisation for its 1940 anti-diphtheria…

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Special Meeting Lapsed Call of Lake Council to Be Made Talk of Rate Increase

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 11

Because two councillors were absent from a special meeting last night. Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided to make a call of the council for 7 p.m. on…

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Kearsley Shire Council Committees

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 7

Representatives of Kearsley Shire Council on the combined Cessnock-Kearsley Councils' Bus Committee elected lost night were: Councillors P…

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Crown Ministers Criticised By Shire Council

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 7

Complaints that the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) and other Government representatives had been insincere in their statements that the position of…

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