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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs
1,268 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 64
Maitland Hospital Board decided last night to seek the cooperation at West Maitland Council in overcoming the mosquito nuisance at Hall's Creek, adjacent to the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dressed in their Sunday best and with their hair carefully parted, 11 boys called to see the Mayor (Ald. Young) at the City Hall yesterday and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mayor (Ald. W. E. Young) will visit Sydney to-morrow on council business. At the invitation of the Lord Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accompanied by the Parks and Building Surveyor (Mr. R. H. Patterson) the Deputy Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. H. Stevenson) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Engineer (Mr. J. W. Webb) told Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night that it would cost £886/12/6 to kerb and gutter Second-street, Boolaroo, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Some aldermen think progress associations are Public Nuisances No. 1," remarked Mr. T. J. Harps, at a meeting of the Merewether Association last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The importance of area planning and the solution of the housing problem in the civic programme for 1941 was emphasised by the Mayor (Aid. W. E. Young) in an address to-day to the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A move to increase the rate from 5½d to 6d is likely to be made at a special meeting of Greater Newcastle Council to-night to deal with the estimates. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two doctors at 'Maitland made novel suggestions yesterday for getting rid of mosquitoes. "If the mosquitoes could be stimulated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"I am satisfied Mr. Ireland's criticism of our cricket grounds was unjust. Apparently he judged all our ovals on what he saw at Empire Park—a very sweeping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"All the roads leading to Merewether beach are in a deplorable state. It looks as though they are trying to make our beach the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greater Newcastle Council would be saved several hundred pounds a year by the establishment of a nursery for raising flowers from seed and propagating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merewether Progress Association decided last night to inform Greater Newcastle Council that all streets in the Glebe area were in an unsatisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The wording of a letter from the Central Northern Medical Association had members of the Health Committee of Greater Newcastle Council puzzled for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The success of Greater Newcastle de pended on intimate contact between the council and the people, and the spirit of citizenshlip must not be weakened,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A possible increase of £20,425 to a total of £335,178 for the Greater Newcastle Council general fund for 1941 was reported by the Town Clerk (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The way in which the Greater Newcastle Council had tackled the campaign to eliminate mosquitoes in the district was criticised as the "laziest way possible"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An application had been received for the lease of Fletcher Park, Pinttsburg, for agistment purposes, the Parks and Building Surveyor reported to the Works committee. It…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →DELEGATES form all parts of the Commonwealth attended the opening session of the Australian conference of the National council of Women, now in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Acting Engineer (Mr. C. H. Hodson) told Tarro Shire Council yesterday that bare maintenance would be provided for in a main roads programme…
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