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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

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Council Against Newsprint Cuts

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE. — Charges by Councillor White at a meeting of the Kensington and Norwood Council last night that the…

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Council May Remodel Some Of Its Assents, Says Mayor

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 6

Greater Newcastle Council was about to consider plans for the future remodelling of its rent-producing assets, the Lord Mayor (Ald. H. D. Quinlan) told the Business Men's Club today…

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District Progress Council Agenda

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 4

Newcastle District Council of Progress Associations will hold its first general meeting of the year in the Hamilton Council…

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Council Told Garbage Methods Nuisance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 2

THE method of garbage disposal at the council's Mayfield and Merewether depots did not comply with the provisions…

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Fear Bankruptcy Over Council Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 3

If Greater Newcastle Council insisted that Steel Tank and Pipe Construction, Union-street, Cook's Hill, should cease work…

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Council Queries Liver Meal Export Ban

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 3

The Federal Government's ban on the export of liver meal was owing to a substantial shortage of protein meal of stock feeding in…

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Greater City Success—lord Mayor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 3

The creation of Greater Newcastle meant that the city could speak with a definite voice in its, proper demands for development,…

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Claim Anomalies in Municipal Voting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 2

Merewether branch of the A.L.P. decided to ask the A.L.P Municipal Assembly to have anomalies in the local Government Act reformed…

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Municipal Voting Changes Sought

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 January 1948 · page 4

Because it was considered that property owners should have only one vote in municipal elections and not one vote…

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Letters To Editor Tribute to Mayor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

May I pay a tribute to the work of the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan). Some 12 months ago, when discussing the then…

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Defends Council's Methods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

I attended the first 1948 meeting of Greater Newcastle Council on January 6, and, having sat through the entire proceedings, I…

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Council's Property Resumptions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

Recently there has apparently been a considerable number of resumptions of property by the Greater Newcastle Council. It…

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Primary Producers' State Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

Representatives of 12 primary producers' organisations at West Maitland yesterday afternoon decided to form a committee…

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P.P. State Council Proposed

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 7

A conference of primary producers at West Maitland decided to constitute a committee representing all primary…

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Want Shire Garden Made Into Park

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 3

Delegates from Boolaroo branch of the A.L.P. urged Lake Macquarie Shire Municipal Assembly yesterday to ask the Shire Council…

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Coal Board To Make Lake Shire Survey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 2

THE Joint Coal Board would make a survey of Lake Macquarie Shire and consider what financial assistance it could give…

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Letters to Editor Council Decisions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 4

For the information of "Interested" ("N.M.H.," 16/1/48) and other critics of my statement at the last meeting of the A.L.P…

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Advise Council To Buy 12 Trucks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

Greater Newcastle Works Committee will recommend to the council to-night the purchase of 12 A.E.C. diesel 5-ton trucks at a cost…

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Wilton Council Bought Carpet "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 19.—The Council of Wilton, where the carpets are made, bought a bargain. It was a Wilton…

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Council to Build £33,590 Mayfield Block

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

A building scheme at the corner of Kerr and Hanbury Streets, Mayfield, with a frontage to Maitland-road to embrace three shops, five…

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