Mr. Weir Says Narromine Weir Is Matter for Municipal Council
Because the Narromine weir servos more than the Narromine municipality, the council has endeavoured for some years to have it declared a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1948
726 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 37
How The Shire [?] Speed £15,000 [?]
DURING [?] about 415,000 plan by [?] roads. To [?] on the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire of Timbrebongie Estimates for the Year 1943
Notce is hereby given that at s meeting of the Council held on 14th January, [?] the following estimates were approved and adopted:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire Municipal Councils to Entertain Visiting Minister
At the monthly meeting of the Talbragar Shire, at the Shire Chambers on Tuesday, arrangements were made to entertain the Minister for Tourist Activities and Immigration, the Hon. F. Finnan. M.L.A., who arrives in Dubbo tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£1470 Grant To Council
Mr. J. B. Renshaw, M.L.A., has received the following communication from the Minister for Public Works and Local Government:…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Council Deputation To Ask For Grant
At the Shire Council meeting last week the president suggester that council should send a deputation to Sydney to ask for a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Should Take Over Show Ground Trusteeship Says Chamber of Commerce
Opinion expressed by members of the Coonabarabran Chamber of Commerce at its meeting last Thursday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intense Interest in Rale and Gas Increases All Eyes Focussed on To-night's Council Meeting Ratepayers Expect Reconsideration of Charges and Hope for Reductions in Increases
"TIMES" REPORTER'S SURVEY REVEALS GENERAL RESENTMENT AGAINST BEING MISLED ON FINANCES AND CLERK'S STATEMENT EAGERLY AWAITED. A "TIMES" representative assigned to make a two-day survey of public reaction in Wellington to Municipal Council's new gas tariffs, reports that intense interest in municipal affairs is evidenced in every section of the town community…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Letter to the Editor Shire Rates
Sir,—The fallowing appeared in your issue of 15th inst., as having been stated by the President of the Timbrebongie Shire, Cr. E. G. Hoy:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bourke Municipal Council Proposed Park in Mooculta & Short Streets, Further Discussion on Sewerage Project
A meeting of the Aldermen of the above Council was held in the Council Chambers on Monday evening last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narromine Council Funds Are Low
At this week's meeting of the Narromine council the acting town clerk. Mr. Trevor McKian[?] reported that £1,890 had been received into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Municipal Council Officers' Reports
At last Thursday night's regular fortnightly meeting of the Wellington Municipal Council, reports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Decision for 2d IN £ Rate Increase Revoked Further Consideration of Council Finances Discloses £12,000 in Reserves and General Fund in Healthy Condition Mayor Refuses to Accept Motion That Increased Gas Charges be Reconsidered Mayor and Clerk Denounce Articles by "Times" As "Misleading and Erroneous and Designed to Make Mayor Appear 'Go-getter' and Alderman 'Bunch of Nincompoops.'"
FOLLOWING a six-hour battle at Thursday night's meeting of the Municipal Council, in which the Mayor and the Town Clerk fought an unsuccessful rearguard action until almost 2 a.m., to preserve the 2d in the £ rate increase,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Discussion on Gas Tariff "Times" Strongly Attacked Mayor Refuses to Accept Motion for Reconsideration and Rules That New Charges Must Operate for 3 MONTHS
A MOTION lodged at the Council Chambers on the previous day by Aid. A. P. Marshman, giving notice of his intention to move that the new gas charges be deferred for a fortnight so that the aldermen might give…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Agrtcultural Bureau. Macquarie Regional Council Meeting
A meeting of the Macquarie Regional Council of the Agricultural Bureau was held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Finances Ald. Marshman Explains Why He Changed His Views on Rate Increase
INTERVIEWED by a Times representative to-day, and asked why he had changed his views with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Del[?]cates to Sydney to [?] County Council Plan
The proposal to form a country council inching the are[?] contr[?]led by Goob[?] Parkes and Peak Hill councils will be discu[?] on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cottage Rented to Pay Back Rates Is "Disgrace to Council"
A cottage from which the Narromine council collects rent to pay off overdue rates was declared by some aldermen at Monday night's meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Council Correspondence
Correspondence received and dealt with at last Thursday night's meeting of the Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cobbora Shire Works Overseer's Report
In the absence of the Shire Engineer, Mr. D. K. Allen, the Works Overseer, Mr. D. Hannon, presented…
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