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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1950

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Orange Wields Big Stick Says Molong Mayor Molong

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 1

"Orange was like a big boy using its size to grab for anything it wanted," the Mayor of Molong (Aid. R. H…

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Shire Topics

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 1

Mr. P. R. Thurston, Tooraweenah, wrote Gilgandra Council last week asking whose responsibility it was to keep down rabbits on…

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Shire Plant Tenders to Be Invited

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 4

At yesterday’s meeting of the Coonabarabran Shire Council it was decided to invite tenders for new plant estimated to…

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Threat of Writ Ulan County Council

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 1

Before last meeting of the Ulan County Council held at Gulgong on Thursday, was a letter from Mr. H. Cameron, Conabarabran,…

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President’s Effort Shorten Council's Meeting

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 4

In an effort to shorten sittings of Council, which are unnecessarily long, the shire president (Cr. C. Bruce) in a presidential…

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School Bus Route Council Will Spend £1700

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 1

At last Wednesday's Gilgandra Council meeting the Shire Engineer (Mr. Hunter) submitted a report on necessary…

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Council Reference Resignation, Mr. F. W. Antaw

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 1

At Thursday’s meeting of the Ulan County Council held at Gulgong, the recommendation of the Coonabarabran district…

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Electorate Council A.l.p. Delegates Meet at Coonamble

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Castlereagh Electrate Council of the Australian Labor Party Was held at Coonamble at the…

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Council Apathy A.L.P. Endeavours to Improve Town Requests In 1948 To Receive Attention

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

In 1948 the Gilgandra A.L.P. wrote the Gilgandra Shire Council miking that certain imimprovements be made in town…

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Letter to the Editor the County Council

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 6

Sir.—I strongly support the remarks and doubts of Aid. M. V. Duffy re the activities of the Macquarie Valley County Council…

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Should Warren's Civic Fathers Accuse The County Council?

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 2

The loud protests that have been emerging from the direction of Warren in recent months have created the impression that only for the Masquarie Valley County Council's intervention that town would to-day be getting all te benefits of a…

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Requests From Dunedoo to Shire Council

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 3

The Secretary reported to the last meeting of the Duneood Progress Association that he had written to the…

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Dubbo Council to Bear Abattoirs Cost

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 2

Derails of the costs of the Dubbo Abattoirs and the repayment plan were given at We official opening ceremony…

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Annual Meeting of F.&s. District Council

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 2

The failure of the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Assn. to give proper study to important Resolutions on rabbit control and wheat handling was criticised by the retiring President…

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Alderman's High Praise for Hospital Staff

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1

The treatment he had received during his recent three week's sojourn as a patient in the Dubbo Base Hospital was a…

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Nyngan Council Shorts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 6

A letter was received from Narromine Municipal Council advising that a conference regarding the proposal to jointly…

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Homes for Council Employees

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 3

Giving information regarding the proposals to build three houses for Council employees, the Town Clerk stated at last…

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Dubbo Council News Briefs

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

About 90 per cent, of the work on No. 1 Rural Electricity Extension Scheme had been completed the Electrical Engineer…

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Rail Motor to Bourke Council Seeks Change

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1

The Town Clerk (Mr. V. F. H. Matthews) was instructed at last night's meeting or the Dubbo Municipal Council to…

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Work on Flats and Houses Report To Council

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

Three new cottages were completed in Dubbo during the last month, and work had commenced on seven more cottages and the Housing Commission Flats to be erected at the corner of Church and…

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