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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1909

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Labour Council

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 5

It is rumoured that the Wharf Laborers' Union has resolved to accede from the Trades and Labor Council, and that the Seamen's Union has decided upon a similar…

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Western District Council. Meeting at Gilgandra

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 5

The annual meeting of the Western District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held at Gilgandra on Wednesday and Thursday last, and the…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Western District Council

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

THE annual meeting of the Western District Council of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held at Gilgandra on Wednesday last. Mr. J. G. Gilmour (President) occupied the…

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Macquarie Shire Council. Monthly Meeting

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1909 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Macquarie Shire Council was held at the Shire office on Saturday, there being present Crs. Gaden (president), Fuller,…

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Economical Management Good Work by the Macquarie Shire Council

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1909 · page 3

At the meeting of the Macquarie Shire on Saturday the auditor (Mr. P. Minnell) reported that he had completed the audit of the Council's books…

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Municipal Discussions. Postal Department Vagaries

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 February 1909 · page 3

At the special meeting of the Wellington Municipal Council on Wednesday evening last the slipshod methods of the postal department in regard to…

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Shire Council

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1909 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Coonabarabran Shire Council was held on Friday last, the sitting lasting from 10 a.m. till 10 35 p.m…

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Election of Mayor

The Western Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 2

A special meeting of the Council of the Municipality of Bourke was h[?]ld on Monday night last for the purpose of of electing a Mayor for the Municipal year 1909-10…

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Western District Council. the President's Address

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 4

We have the pleasure of supplementing the report of the W.D.C., given in our last issue, by the test of the president's address, for which we are indebted to the…

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The Mayor Elect. Alderman Cameron Chosen

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 5

A special meeting of the Wellington Municipal Council was held at the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening for the purpose of electing the Mayor…

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The New Mayor

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 5

Wellington aldermen are to be congratulated on the wisdom they have shown in the appointment of mayor for the ensuing year. The…

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A Shire Grant. Extraordinary Departmental Methods

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 5

There are some extraordinary features about the special grant of £205 16s 7d, which has recently been received by the Macquarie Shire Council…

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Recriminations in the Council

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 5

There was another brush between Aid Brown and Deveson at the special meeting of the Municipal Council on Tuesday evening to elect the…

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Wrightville Council

The Cobar Herald · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 5

The ordinary meeting of the local Council was held on Tuesday evening last. Present:—The Mayor (Ald Moxon), Alds. Charlesworth, Riley…

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Municipal Council. Alderman McGUINN Re-elected Mayor

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 4

A meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the year ending February, 1910. The Mayor (Aider…

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Undignified Aldermen

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 5

A disgraceful scone has been enacted at the Winda[?]r Council Chambers. During discussion on the election by members of the Works Committee [?]s were freely used, and one…

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The Aldermen Entertained

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 4

At the conclusion of the council meeting, at the invitation of the Mayor, the aldermen adjourned to the Club House Hotel. Alde[?]man Ritter proposed the health of…

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Electing a Mayor

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 4

ON Thursday a special meeting of the municipal council was called to elect a Mayor, (writes the Deniliquin correspondent to the S.M. Herald) Only four responded, and…

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Narromine. (From Our Own Coreespondent.) Municipal Council

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 4

The ordinary meeting of the above was held on Monday night. Aldermen Atkinson, (Mayer) Berryman, By[?]n[?], Hogan, Kierath, McDonald, Smith, and Thom being…

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Western District Council

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 6

We take from tbe CASTLE[?]AGE the following condensation of the speech of Mr. R, Patten, M.L.C., president of tbe F.S.A., delivered at tbe recent meeting of…

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