Council Wins Damages Appeal
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Full Bench of the Supreme Court today quashed a £5000 damages verdict awarded a Lismore City Council employee last September. A Supreme Court jury…
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Council & local affairs, 1954
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Drive For Membership Arts Council Plans At Annual Meeting
"During the coming year as a recommendation to the incoming committee, I would suggest an all out drive for members," said the president of Kyogle branch of the Arts Council, Mr. N. T…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Bankstown Council administrator, Mr. H. W. Dane, today dismissed the…
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CASINO, Friday.—Casino progress associations have rejected a Municipal Council suggestion that representatives of the associations should interview the Town Clerk following their meetings and discuss…
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Byron Shire Council should act now and prevent Byron Bay from becoming like Lismore, with organisations wanting to build on "their only pocket handkerchief of a park", said Cr. D…
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Two motions, both aimed at preventing further building on Spinks Park, Lismore, were defeated at a meeting of Lismore City Council. The motions, submitted by Aid. A. W. Axtens, sought to delay any action for the building of a town hall on the croquet lawn site and to…
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Byron Shire Council will have to confine its road works during the next half of the year to State highways and…
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The second year in the life of the Lismore branch of the Arts Council of Australia shows outstanding achievement in bringing about events of artistic importance…
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CASINO, Friday.—The Shires' Association of N.S.W. is supporting a move by Tomki Shire urging a greater…
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CASINO, Friday.—It would be a long time before any flood mitigation work of a worthwhile nature was completed in the Richmond Valley, the President of Tomki Shire Council,…
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CASINO, Sunday.—A claim that the reaction of many people to the adoption of the rural surcharge policy by the Electricity Authority would be to refuse to instal electricity in their…
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BALLINA, Sunday.—Ballina Municipal Council will not undertake the prosecution of approximately 1000…
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CASINO, Sunday.—Tomki Shire Council was unable to complete its business at the monthly meeting on Friday…
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KYOGLE, Tuesday.—A request to the Postmaster-General's Department for installation of two-way radio telephone links between post offices on the upper reaches of the Richmond River and Kyogle Post Office is to be made by Kyogle Shire Council…
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CASINO, Wednesday.— If the Town Clerk, Mr. Austin R. Samut, is unable to accede to a request by a…
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St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Kyogle, is to be notified that Kyogle Shire Council will again seek to obtain a combined meeting of all the church cemetery trusts in the town and the council to discuss the future management of the local cemetery. The shire president, Cr. W…
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Terania Shire Council is to support a move by the Shires' Association of New South Wales for "a new financial deal for local government."…
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A request to the Postmaster-General's Department for installation of two-way radio telephone…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday.—Mullumbimby Municipal Council will not consent to the removal of tree guards at the entrance to the Mullumbimby Intermediate High School and will advise the…
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On the agenda for discussion at the next quarterly meeting of the Richmond District Council of the Primary Producers' Union are many interesting resolutions from district…
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