Council Points: Works Committee
The City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) reported to Newcastle Council Works Committee that it was intended to subdivide from a large area…
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Council & local affairs, 1950
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Coal Board Offers Too Big for Shire
Hears that commitments with the Joint Coal Board for public amenities were growing beyond the council's financial capacity were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lake Shire Grants £400 To Belmont Area
A grant of £400 for urgent works was made last night to Belmont Urban Area Committee from Lake Macquarie Shire Council's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Talks About Abattoir Land Planned
Newcastle Council Finance Committee decided last night to recommend that a special council meeting be called to decide whether the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Clerical Employees Get Pay Increases
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Substantial pay increases were granted to about 800 clerical employees of most municipal and shire councils in New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loan Council Allocates Extra £20,000
The Loan Council will make an additional £20,000 available to Newcastle City Council. This will bring the 1949-50 allocation to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Move About Mouse In Milk
Newcastle Council Health Committee adopted a recommendation by the Chief Health Inspector (Mr. Meddows), that the Milk Board be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commission Projects In Lake Shire Area To Have New Names
Surprisetown, the Housing Commission project near Charlestown, may be renamed Sherwood, after the old English town of that name. At last night's meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council Advised To Pay Debt On Tents
A move to settle a debt to the Department of the Army for the loss of tents borrowed from the department during the city's 150th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Urgent Problems to Be Tackled by City Council
At its first meeting in 1950, the Newcastle Council decided last night to face up immediately to three urgent problems, which most aldermen regard as probably the most serious confronting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →County Council Surplus
Expenditure by the Northumberland County Council in 1949 was £13,790, against an income of £15,465, the County Clerk (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rathmines "Parks" Not Council Land
Parks which Rathmines Progress Association claimed were being taken away from the people through subdivision for buildings were, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soviet Delegate Resumes Seat On UN Council
NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): M. Jacob Malik, Soviet Union delegate, resumed his seat in the Security Council to-day. M. Malik, who walked out of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labour Council to Meet On Refinery Strike
SYDNEY, Thursday.—New South Wales Trades and Labour Council Disputes Committee will meet on Monday to decide whether…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wanted Lord Mayor To Conduct Wedding
A migrant from Greta Camp called at the City Hall yesterday with the intention of asking the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) if he would marry him to his migrant fiance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord Mayor Approached For 2 State Seats
The Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) said yesterday that Liberal supporters in Gloucester and Hamilton electorates had asked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Iron For Repairs In Kearsley Shire
Steps had been taken to ask various suppliers of galvanised iron to identify orders on their wholesale merchants, so as much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Prayer Meeting Surprise
LONDON—Members of Camborne-Redruth (Cornwall) Council decided to open their meetings with prayer by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Request To Safety Council On Lake-road Danger
Lake-road Progress Association will ask the Road Safety Council to take measures to reduce the danger to pedestrians and cyclists…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aldermen Had Their Prayers—And Music
LONDON: Members of Camborne - Redruth (Cornwall) Council decided recently to open their meetings with prayer…
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