Floods Isolate Shire President
Isolated from his home at Miller's Forest since Monday, the president of Lower Hunter Shire Council (Cr. L. F. Monkley) had this experience to lend force to his argument when he declared…
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Council & local affairs, 1954
832 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 42
Council Seeks Record Loan
Newcastle City Council will seek a record loan allocation of £872,500 for the financial year 1954-55. The allocation claimed…
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Newcastle Council Works Committee will recommend that the council pay the cost of demolishing Federal House,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shire Wants £26,540 Approval Of Loan Sought
Kearsley Shire Council will seek Government approval to borrow £26,540. The council decided last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Council Move on Area Platt's Estate Health Fear
A move to do away with the sub-standard settlement at Platt's Estate, Waratah West, was made by Newcastle Council Health Committee last night…
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Seven schoolgirls had an appointment with the Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. Purdue) yesterday…
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The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Newcastle (Ald. and Mrs. Purdue) have been invited to the Lord Mayor's…
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Maitland's Town Clerk (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) was authorised last night to sue for the…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.): The Security Council sat for exactly three minutes today and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District R.S.L. Council Annual Meeting
The report submitted to the annual meet-ing of Newcastle R.S.L. district showed that 29 sub-branches were affiliated with the Council…
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Members of the Municipal and Shire Employees' Union employed by Lake Macvquarie Shire Council…
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GOSFORD, Thursday.—Gosford Shire Council decided to petition the Queen to address a message to the people…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lord Mayor Contradicted On Garbage Dump Issue
In a Statement today on the garbage dump controversy, the president of Waratah West Progress Association (Mr. G. Stark) said that while he was an admirer of the dignity the Lord Mayor (Ald. Purdue) had brought to that office he was keenly disappointed at the Lord…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department (Mr. A. S. Brown) to-day acted as…
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Arrangements have been made to clean up the much-criticised council garbage dumps, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Purdue) disclosed today. The dumps at Waratah…
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SYDNEY: The State Government would not expect councils to meet the full cost of restoring flood-damaged roads, the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Renshaw) said…
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SYDNEY: The bribery trial began in the Quarter Sessions today of Edward Charles Erwin (46), a former mayor of Leichhardt, who pleaded not guilty to two charges. They are: That between…
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Kearsley Shire Council employees will stop work if the council changes the method of transporting men to their jobs…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—The British Council—a State-sponsored cultural organisation—is to be…
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