Take Over City Council Planning Staff
If a county council was established to carry out town planning for Region No. 4, it would take over the Greater Newcastle…
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Council & local affairs, 1948
830 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 42
In Brief "Name Potholes After Aldermen" Ship Left Without Bagged Wheat
Potholes, not parks, should be named after the aldermen, Mr. D. Probert told a meeting of Hamilton Progress Association last night. He said that Heddon ltd. and Cooranbong Rd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Mayor Says Senate Objects to University Here
Sydney University Senate did not see eye to eye with the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) on the need for a university at Newcastle, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) told children and their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rebuke For Alderman
"Your public statements about the aldermen having picnic trips to look at pictures and other things lave no justification and I resent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Mayor Inspects His Old Classroom
Wickham Public School today welcomed back after 40 years one of its most distinguished ex-pupils in the Lord Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan), who attended the commemorative "Back to Wickham" celebrations at the school this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Mayor Urges Need For University
Newcastle's educational facilities had reached a high standard, but they would not be complete until a university was built here, the Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Acquire 160 Land Lots for Council
Greater Newcastle Council was committed to acquire 160 portions of land within its area, and as all were subject to negotiation, the job…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"No Fear Of War"—Report To Defence Council
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Although the world situation was tense, there was no fear of war, said a report to the Defence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mayor Meet's Former Teacher
NO INTRODUCTION was necessary when Miss Lucretia Golding met the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) at Wickham School yesterday. She had taught him as an infant 50 years before. Interested spectators were the headmaster (Mr. R. Dunne) and Ald. G. Jenner, another old boy of the school…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Brief Veteran Alderman Went One Better
An elderly woman approached the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) at Wickham Public School yesterday afternoon. "I remember you as a curly-haired boy in my infants' class of 1898," she said. "And I remember you too, Miss Golding," the Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lord Mayor At School Desk
A group of Wickham school-children gathered around the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) as he entered his old classroom yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Mayor at Old School Desk
When he attended Back to Wickham School Day yesterday the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinian) sat at the desk he occupied as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alderman Back At Dockyard
On receiving an assurance from Ald. C. K. Jones that he would comply with undertakings given by the executive of the Boilermakers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Progress Council "Exasperated"
Failures in requests made to Lake Macquarie Shire Council had been exasperating, the President (Mr. A. J. Taylor) said in his annual report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lake Shire Rates
The solicitude shown by Cr. Kenny and his Labour colleagues towards pensioners is very touching—it touches me to the extent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Council Could Run Brick Yard"
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) said yesterday he believed Greater Newcastle Council could carry on a brick manufacturing plant on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Council Land Sales Till Price Fixed
Allotments on the council's Mayfield West subdivision could not be sold until a price was fixed by the Delegate to the Treasurer, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Mayor at 11 Services
THE LORD MAYOR (Ald. Quinlan) attended 11 Anzac Day celebrations yesterday. His day started at 5 a.m., and finished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ask Council: "Where Has Money Gone?"
Greater Newcastle Council will be asked by Merewether Progress Association, "What has become of the £908 which it voted some time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →County Council Is Rejected
Greater Newcastle Council last night rejected a strong Government recommendation that a county council should be established to plan the development of No. 4 region…
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