Council Defers Big Questions
BECAUSE only 12 of Greater Newcastle Council's 21 aldermen were present, the council at a special meeting last night…
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Council & local affairs, 1947
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Council Short of Garbage Tins
Greater Newcastle Council is besieged with orders for garbage tins, but cannot satisfy the demand because of a shortage of material…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commission Rents "Exorbitant," Says Alderman
Housing Commission tenants at the Wallsend settlement were paying exorbitant rent, said Ald. Scott-Daisley (West Ward) yesterday. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ask Labour Council To Oppose Stoppage
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council decided to-night to hold a special debate nex Thursday night. The decision was made after a motion to rescind the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Worried By Possibility Of Losing Courtaulds
"Whether Courtaulds come here or not is likely to be decided by whether they can pump their own water or are forced to take it from the Board," said Cr. Morgan at a meeting of the Port Stephens Shire Council today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aldermen to Give Support for Municipal Market
Aldermen of West and Mid-west, wards who received a deputation from citizens of their wards to discuss the establishment of Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mayor's Support Memorial Ward Funds for Home at Lake
The £22,000 raised for construction of a methods ward at Newcastle Hospital for returned soldiers should be devoted to the appeal for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poles Protest to Control Council
MOSCOW, March. 10. A.A.P.— Moscow Radio announced that the Polish military mission in Berlin has sent a letter to the Allied Control…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mayor Thinks That Idle Hospital Should Be Used As A University
The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. H. D. Quinlan) today suggested that the idle New Lambton chest hospital be used as a temporary university…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dissension Among Aldermen
Considerable dissension arose among aldermen of the Greater Newcastle Council last night when the question…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Progress Bodies Form Council
Representatives of Argenton, Cardiff, Lake-road and Cardiff-West End Progress Associations formed a council to be known as the Cross Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council Turns Down Smallgoods Plan
AFTER receiving a deputation of master butchers and smallgoods manufacturers last night. Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Decisions On Important Issues
Two important decisions were made by the Greater Newcastle Council last night. It was decided to protest to the…
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MELBOURNE: Before the Full High Court today, counsel argued whether the decision of the Acting Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court (Judge Drake-Brockman) was valid when he decided not to hear separately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Views on Proper Placing of House Numbers
House numbers were used mainly to assist tradesmen and visitors and should be placed on the front of the building about eye level, a spokesman for the Greater Newcastle Council said today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Criticism of Council On Land Titles
Greater Newcastle Council was criticised for not converting land at Mayfield West from the old Common law system, to Torrens title by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labour Council Reverses Decision on May 1 Stoppage
The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council decided in Sydney last night by 134 votes to 84 to withdraw support from the May 1 nationwide stoppage planned to enforce a 40-hour week…
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Hamilton A.L.P. Electorate Council will ask the Minister for Health (Mr. Kelly) to have inquiries made into the great number of goitre cases…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mayor's Trip To See Injured Alderman In Hospital At Scone
The Mayor (Aid. H. D. Quinlan) yesterday made a special trip from Newcastle to Scone to visit Alderman F. J. Cane, who was badly injured on Saturday when the jeep in which he was travelling to Barrington Tops for the tourist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Annual Meeting of P. and C. District Council
The report of the Newcastle District Council of P. and C. associations to be submitted at the 16th annual meeting shows that 47 associations were affiliated with the council. During the year one of the main…
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