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Northern Rivers · Council & local affairs
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GRAFTON: The Clarence River County Council this week decided to comply with a request from outside local governing bodies on the North Coast to convene a conference to consider the proposed formation of a Greater County Council to embrace…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cases of diphtheria have occurred at Nimbin, Barker's Vale and Larnook during the last month This was stated by the inspector (Mr. T. P…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Every hour pumps are delivering 100,000 gallons to reservoirs to maintain Lismore's water supply. One of the pumps—that at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terania Shire Civic Fund Committee, at a meeting on Thursday, was advised that it had been registered with the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Main Roads Department has made available £7118 16s 8d as its contribution to Terania Shire Council's 1940 maintenance programme for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Department of Works and Local Government is unable to give Terania Shire Council an assurance of Government subsidy for a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →There will be no alter ation in the rate levy in Terania Shire for 1940. The rates were fixed at the last meeting of the council. The general rate, at 2½d in the £ on the unimproved capital value of all ratable…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Owing to the heat wave causing an abnormal demand for water, the Casino Council, at a special meeting, decided to impose restrictions on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plans for the following new buildings were approved at last meeting of the Lismore Municipal Council:—Garage?: Ballina-street, for A. E…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Mayor (Ald. W. F. Oakes) stated at a meeting of the Lismore Municipal Council on Tuesday night that there had been no appreciable difference in the consumption of water in Lismore since he appealed to residents last week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reporting on two letters received from the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Martin) relative to the Government's decision not to proceed with the Rocky Creek water supply scheme, and the drainage works in Brown's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, Thursday:—The Lord is giving a Mansion House luncheon to celebrate the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund having attained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday:—The Privy Council granted special leave to appeal from the High Court decision in the case of Moran Proprietary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a w[?] attended meeting in the Rosebank Hall, it was unanimously agreed to form a branch of the Terania S[?] aire Civic Fund and to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday:—The Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) announced in the House of Commons that the Board of Trade would establish a council to stimulate exports, consisting of leading business men, trade…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain), speaking in a debate on the organisation of national economical resources for was, declared that a Ministry for the co-ordination of the economic war effort was superfluous,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday:—The conference of the Balkan Entente opened in Belgrade to-day and at once gave formal effect to the continuance of the pact which was signed in 19134 to protect the four signatories…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The annual meeting of the Richmond District Council of the Primary Producers' Union will be held in the Masonic Hall, Lismore, on Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Establishment by President Roosevelt of "a general medical council" charged with administering a national health programme was proposed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DOMINATED by representatives of local governing bodies from the Clarence and districts further south, a conference at Grafton on Saturday carried motions favouring an extension of the Clarence River County…
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