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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

830 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 42

Council Offer; Airstrip Gravel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 2

Wyong Shire Council will offer the Main Roads Department 3d a cubic foot for the gravel oh the Tuggerah airstrip. The council was…

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Air Strip Shire To Ask For Control

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 4

Acting on a protest by members of the Newcastle Aero Club against the removal of gravel from the Tuggerah airstrip, the…

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Council Shifts Big Paspalum Load

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 2

The Lord Mayor's offer to shift paspalum cleared from footpaths by residents of Newcastle has brought surprising…

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Will Investigate Council Quarry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

Greater Newcastle Council decided last night to set up a committee to determine what should be done with the Martin's Creek metal…

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Council Moves Again To Get Fish Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

Greater Newcastle Council decided last night to send a deputation to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) with a request that the control of the Newcastle Fish Market he vested in the council…

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Council Policy On Street Stalls To Be Defined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 2

Greater Newcastle Council last night deferrede till next Tuesday an application by Mayfield Communist Party for permission to conduct a…

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Fish Shops "Best Council Plan"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

Greater Newcastle Council should open fish shops of its own if it was really interested in providing cheap fish, the Manager of the Newcastle Fishermen's Cooperative (Mr. K. Sundelius) said last…

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Council Mining Bill Passes First Reading

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Local Government Amendment Bill, to enable councils to operate mines for the supply and distribution of…

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Council Name For Hospital Board Rejected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

An application from Greater Newcastle Council, nominating Ald. A. A. Boa to a vacancy on the Wallsend Hospital Board, was ruled "out…

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Council Control Of Fish Marketing Is Sought

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

Council control of retail shops was not the answer to the problem of making wholesome fish available to the public at reasonably cheap prices, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Quinlan) said today. Ald. Quinlan was commenting…

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Woy Move to Leave Shire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3

GOSFORD, Thursday.—Woy Woy Chamber of Commerce and other district organisations are to ask councillors for the area to…

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Gosford Council's Library Scheme

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3

GOSFORD, Thursday.—Gosford Council will introduce a library scheme for the shire. A rate, representing 1/ a head of the shire…

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Labour Council To Repay Union Loan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3

Greater Newcastle Trades and Labour Council will repay to the National Council of the Federated Ironworkers' Association £500 of…

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Council Examining Fee Doubled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—Fees to be lodged with councils for examining plans and specifications, and inspecting new buildings would be…

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Industrial Crisis Miners' Council Meets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Decisions of the Miners' Federation Central Council in Sydney on Tuesday will probably decide whether the Queensland strike will cause an industrial crisis…

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Discuss "Grave Lake Shire Finances"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 2

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley), Mr. R. James, M.H.R., and Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., advised Lake Macquarie A.L.P. Shire…

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Federal Council A.l.p. Officers

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 4

Officers elected at the meeting of the Newcastle Federal Electorate Council of the A.L.P. yesterday were: President, S…

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Council Wants Power Station On Hunter

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 3

Greater Newcastle Council would continue to press for the establishment of a municipal-controlled power station on the Hunter River, in spite of the State Cabinet's decision favoring a site at…

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Council Too Busy to Run Coal Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 8

Greater Newcastle Council was too seriously engrossed in its present undertakings to consider acquiring and operating its own coal mines, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Quinlan) said today…

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Lord Mayor Sending Food To Tynesiders

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

The father of twin girls and an old couple over 70 have written to the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) from Newcastle-on-Tyne asking for food parcels. A letter from Ald. Quinlan…

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