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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1928

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Electoral Amendment Bill Passes Council SYDNEY

Western Age · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 2

The Electoral Amendment Bill passed the second reading in the Legislative Council by 27 votes to 19. Amongst other things the Bill…

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Engineer Resigns As Protest Against Council's Action Dismissal of Employee

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 6

Mr. H. J. Lawson, Municipal Engineer, has handed in his resignation as a protest against the action of the Council on Tuesday night,…

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Our Civic Control New Council Meets The Sewerage Debt Committees Appointed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 5

Our new civic fathers met for the first time in the Council Chambers on Tuesday night, when the Mayor (Ald. G. Fitz-Hill)…

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Loan or Grant? Council Makes Application. Reply From Mr. W. F. DUNN

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 9

IN view of the unemployment that apparently exists in some country centres. Mr. W. F. Dunn, Wellington's State member, recently asked a…

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Failure of Electric and Water Supplies. Matter Discussed in Council Special Meeting To Be Held

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 9

THE failure of the electric light and water supply, on Monday and Tuesday last, was brought before the Municipal Council on Tuesday night,…

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Talks on Our Town. Article No. 2. Council Instead of Leagues Must Have a Broader View

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 1

TAKING it that a Municipal Council can operate equally as successfully as a progress association, or leagues formed for, certain objects,…

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Municipal Estimates for 1929

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 6

Following a motion by Ald. Dully at the Council meeting Tuesday night, it was decided that the works committee go into the matter of the…

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Narromine. Alderman Dundas, Mayor

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 December 1928 · page 5

For the third time Alderman A. B. Dundas has been elected Mayor. A Special meeting of the Council was held on Monday evening and the mayoral…

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A Difference in Council. the Engineer Resigns

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 December 1928 · page 5

It is a very regrettable occurrence that the Municipal Council Engineer (Mr. H. J. Lawson) tendered his resignation on Wednesday morning…

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Amaroo Shire Council Cr. Bowhay Re-elected President

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 5

AT the first meeting of the newly elected Council of the Amaroo Shire, Cr. G. H. Bowhay was re-elected President and Cr. S. R…

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Shire President. Thursday's Election

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 5

A special meeting of the Councillors of Talbragar Shire will be held at the Shire Chambers on Thursday next to elect a president for the ensuing term…

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Cobbora Shire. Monthly Meeting New President Elected

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 3

Councillors Morley, Conn, McLeod, Jones, Yeo and Whiteley were present at the usual monthly meeting of the Cobbora Shire…

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President of Legislative Council. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 2

The name of Mr. Farrer, Minister for Labour and industry, is motioned as the possible successor to the late Mr. Fred Flowers, as…

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A. E. Hawkins, Dubbo. Orange Taxi Drivers Serious Allegations Municipal Council to Investigate

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 4

The taxi drivers of Orange--or at least some of them--have brought a hornet's nest about their heads, and it will be surprising if…

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The Electricity Undertaking Council Investigates

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 9

A Special Meeting of the Municipal Council was held on Monday night last to make investigations into the electric undertaking, and also the…

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An Open Letter. To the Electors of B Riding, Cobbora Shire

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 12

Ladies and Gentlemen.—I did not intend to write any more open letters on Shire matters for twelve months, as a new Council having…

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News O' Narromine School Break-Up Some Shire Matters Scorching Criticism

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 4

At the meeting of the Narromine Municipal Council on Monday night, the Dubbo P.P. Board was scorchingly criticised by Ald. Smith and the…

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W. H. Godwin's Year. Talbragar Shire Council. Presidential Election

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 December 1928 · page 1

At 3.30 yesterday afternoon the members of the Talbragar Shire Council met and unanimously elected Councillor W. H. Godwin as their President…

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Merely My Musings. Talbragar Shire Council Monthly Meeting. The Two New Members

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 December 1928 · page 4

There is little or nothing to be gained by getting up against things. I know, because I have tried it. Ever since a certain illness, due wholly to a foolish The newly-elected President (Councillor W. H. Godwin) presided at a meeting of the Talbragar Shire Council held last night. Others present were…

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Latest Telegrams. Industrial Peace Conference. Labor Council's Terms. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 December 1928 · page 1

The Labor Council has refused to recognise the Industrial Peace Conference until volunteers have been removed from the waterfront and "political…

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