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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1953

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Credit Balance All Funds Shire Clerk Congratulated

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 4

When the report by the Coolah Shire Clerk, Mr. J. Yule, showed a credit balance in all Council funds at…

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More Tar Surfaces Required Coolah Shire Roads

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 14

The Coolah Shire Council will ask Mr. R. B. Nott MLA for Liverpool Plains to personally interview the…

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Improvement to Saleyards Coolah Council Considers

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 14

As the usage of the Coolah saleyards, under the control of the Coolah Shire Council, has increased over…

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Council Refuses Permission to Erect Service Station

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 1

The Coonabarabran Shire Council on Tuesday refused permission to Mr. E. Mellites and others to erect a service station on land adjacent to the Commonwealth Bank in John Street, Although Mr. E. Mellitas…

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Castlereagh Electoral Council—First Time At Nyngan

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 12

For the first time since the inclusion of Nyngan in the Castlereagh A.L.P. State Electoral Council the…

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C.W.A. Council Meeting Mudgee-Coolah Group

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 15

The council meeting of the Mudgee-Coolah-Group of the C.W.A. was held in the Country Women’s Rest-rooms at Dunedoo on Friday; Mrs N. Horne president of the Dunedoo branch, received the councillors and…

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Plan for Town Hall Council to Have Prepared

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 July 1953 · page 2

The Coonabarabran Shire Council on Tuesday decreed that preliminary investigations be made of the…

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Losses by Council on Sales of Electrical Goods

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 2

Losses were being made by the department set up by the Orange City Council to sell electricity appliances, a…

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Coonabarabran Shire Council Shorts

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 12

Amongst matters dealt with at the last meeting of the Coonabarabran Shire Council were the following:…

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1413 BORROWERS Shire Library Progress

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 7

Coonabarabran Shire librarian, Miss J. H. Bucknell, reported to the last meeting of the Council that…

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Festival Week Objective Will Be Provision of Memorial Olympic Pool Meeting Endorses Council's Opinion that Pool Project Would Receive Public Support

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 1

The objective of the Wellington Spring Festival Week, to be held during October next, will be the construction of a modern Olympic Swimming Pool as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the Second World War. This decision was made unanimously at a well-attended and enthusiastic…

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Council Has £3,400 Rules Outstanding

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 31 July 1953 · page 1

Seven days final Notice will be served [?] who are in arrears wit payment of rates is [?] at Monday night's meeting of the Narromine Municipal Council…

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Shire President's Views on Festival Week Proposal and Objective Committee Congratulated on Example Set in Fine Public Spiritedness

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 2

President of the Wellington Shire Council, Cr. K. D. W. Masters, said last Tuesday night that the Spring Festival Committee deserved every support and congratulations for its fine public spiritedness. Cr. Masters was addressing the public meeting in the Agricultural Hall at which it was unanimously decided to change the objective of the Festival Week from a civic centre to a Memorial Olympic swimming pool…

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Peak Hill Fights For Representation on County Council

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

Letters, telegrams and a petition from Peak will have sought to point cut out to the Minister for Local Government the unfair position in which Peak [?] would, be placed under present county Council proposals…

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No Quorum Special Meeting of Council

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 2

There was to have been a special meeting of the Coonabarabran Shire Council yesterday afternoon to deal with the…

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Municipality of Bourke

The Western Herald · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 3

The ordinary meeting of the Bourke Municipal Council was held on Thursday, 30th July, Mr…

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Municipality of Peak Hill Roll of Electors, 1953

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 7

NOTICE is [?] given that Council is compelling a new [?] of Elector and Ratepayers in accordance with the [?]…

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Shire Elections New System This Year

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 1

Important amendments to ordinances governing municipal and shire selections provide for a new procedure to be…

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Dubbo Council on River Pollution by Gold Dredge

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 3

Dubbo alderman this week supported the [?] of the Narromine Council that gold dredging week [?]…

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Bulkhead Built on Shire Road Creates Difficulties

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1953 · page 3

Difficulties caused by the building of wheat bulkhead on the road at Wyanga were the subject of deputation to…

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