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Northern Rivers · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1947

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Mullumbimby Council Electrical Engineer Welcomed

Northern Star · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 6

MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday. — Welcoming the new Chief Electrical Engineer (Mr. R. Lehmann) at a meeting of Mullumbimby Council,…

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Special Meeting of Kyogle Shire

Northern Star · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 4

KYOGLE. Thursday Kyogle Shire Council will hold a special meeting on Tuesday morning to discuss the report of the Senior…

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Legion District Council Proposed

Tweed Daily · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 2

The proposed formation of a Northern District Council of the Legion of Ex-Service Men and Women was explained by the…

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Agenda for Tweed PPU Council

Tweed Daily · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

Ten branches of the Primary Producers' Union have recommendations on the agenda paper for…

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Council Employees Union

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 5

Murwilhimbah Branch of the Municipal and Shire Employees' Union will hold a special meeting in the Tweeri Shire Council…

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Simple Words Rare in Security Council

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 5

NEW YORK, Friday: E. B. White, writing in the New Yorker on the Security Council's disarmament debates said that the…

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General Secretary at PPU Council Meeting

Tweed Daily · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 2

Mr J. L. Banner, Secretary of Tweed District Council of the Primary Producers' Unon, has been advised that the General…

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Claim by Aldermen Parking Change Not Needed

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 4

Parking arrangements in Lismore should stay as they are until such time as traffic warranted a change, said two…

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Surprising Developments Anticipated at Shire Meeting

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 1

Though few electors ever exercise their privilege of attending open meetings of Kyogle Shire Council, there is every indication that this morning's special meeting will be a notable exception. In anticipation of this…

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City Council Spent £10,790 on Roads in 1946

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 4

Expenditure by the Lismore City Council for public works in the year which ended on December 31 was reported to a meeting of the…

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Suspension of Kyogle Shire Overseer

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 2

LISMORE, Tuesday: After consideration of a departmental report on the accounts, internal organisation and management of…

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North East Corner Shire Gifts go to Hospital

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 4

More than 1200 patients to City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, were included in an overall expression of thanks, for…

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U.n. Trusteeship Council Will Meet March 26

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK (AP): Member nations of the United Nations trusteeship council have been informed by acting U.N. Secretary…

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Overseer Suspended; Clerk Criticised Departmental Report to Kyogle Council

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 4

KYOGLE, Tuesday. — After consideration of a report by an officer of the Department of Local Government on the accounts and internal organisation and management of the Kyogle Shire Council, a special meeting of the council to-day suspended the Overseer (Mr. A…

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Russia Asks U.N. Council To Drop Charge Against Albania

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 3

LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday: Russia asked the United Nations' Security Council to drop the British complaint that Albania had illegally laid mines in the Corfu Channel…

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Valuer Not Available for Nerang Shire

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 5

Following on a recent interview with Mr E. J. Gaven, the Queensland Valuer-General (Mr P. E. Richardson) in a letter…

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New Member of Ner[?] Council

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

At Tuesday's meeting of [?] shire Council, Mr. W. [?]of Carrara, was [?] to an the va[?]…

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Long Session by Tweed Ppu Council

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 2

Tweed District Council of the PPU had one of its longest sessions on record on Tuesday, when the annual and quarterly…

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Nerang Council Told Lacked Authority to Allow Skating Rink Construction

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 5

The Land Commissioner, Brisbane, in a letter to Nerang Shire Council which was read at Tuesday's meeting, advised…

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Departmental Report to Kyogle Shire Council. False Vouchers Discovered by Deputy Shire Clerk

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 4

The report of Mr. A. H. Hann stated that the discovery of the irregular vouchers was made by the Deputy Shire Clerk (Mr. H. S. Edwards) when he noticed that a number of vouchers had, at different times, been prepared by the Overseer and, according to details on the back of the cheque,…

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