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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1898

106 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6

Braidwood Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 2

A special meeting of the Council was held at the Municipal Chambers on Monday evening last. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen W. A. Kershaw, R. M. Biggins, W. F. Bundock, J. McDonald, D…

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Open Letters. No. 3. to Alderman William Pike Esq., Mayou of Queanbeyan

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 2

I HAD hoped, Mr. Mayor, that the honest exposure by my pen of the first of the long series of municipal malfeasances and negligences which it my intention to bring into…

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Braidwood Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 May 1898 · page 2

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Council was held at the Municipal Chambers on Monday evening last. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Higgins, Bunn, Burdock, McDonald, Taylor, Lindsay, and…

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Borough Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 2

THERE were present at last night's meeting of the Borough Council, the Mayor, and Aldermen Blackall, Firth, Harris, Hincksman, Knox, and J. Pike…

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Queanbeyan Borough Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2

The usual meeting of the Queanbeyan Borough Council was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening, when there were present— Aldermen Pike (Mayor),…

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Borough Council--no Quorum

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 June 1898 · page 2

LAST night at 8.15, the only members of the Council present at the Council Chambers were Aldermen Firth, Grady, and Knox, and there not being a quorum present, the…

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Open Letters. No. 4. to Alderman William Pike. Esq., Mayor of Queanbeyan

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 June 1898 · page 2

SIR,--The intervention of the Federal Referendum, with its engrossing interest and (to me) its official engagements, must be my plan for the temporary discontinuance…

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Braidwood Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 June 1898 · page 2

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Council was held at the Municipal Chambers on Monday evening last. Present: The Mayor, Alderman Kershaw, Higgins, Buar, Bundock, McDonall, Lindsay, Taylor and Musgrave…

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The Goulburn Municipality

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 June 1898 · page 2

Several important matters were under review at Thursday night's council meeting, Goulburn. Letters from a Sydney firm of accountants were received, offering, on…

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Local News. the Borough Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 2

MET last night. There were present, besides the Mayor, Alderman Blackall, Firth, Hincksman, and W. Pike. The formal preliminaries having been…

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Queanbeyan Borough Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 2

Present Ald. Pike (Mayor), J. Pike, Blackall, Knox, Hincksman, and Firth. The minute of the previous meeting were read and adopted…

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Goulburn Municipal Finances

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 2

A special meeting of the Goulburn council was held on Tuesday night, extending over several hours, to consider the question of finances, and to draw up a scheme of…

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Open Letters. No.5. To Alderman William Pike. Esq., Mayor of Queanbeyan

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 2

SIR.--Although much more could be written on the administration, mal-administration, or non-administration of the by-laws of the Borough of Queanbeyan, I daresay…

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Braidwood Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 June 1898 · page 2

A special meeting of the Council wit held at the Municipal Chambers on Monday evening last present: The Mayor, Aldermen Kershaw, McDonald, Lindsay, Taylor and Musgrave…

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Portraits of the Late Mayor

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 2

OVER the mantelpieces of the Council Chamber last night there were placed two fine porcelain-photes, enlargement of the portisit of the late Mayor (E. H. Land,…

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Local News. Borough Council. Thursday, June 30Th

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 2

THERE were present at last night's council meeting-- The Mayor (Alderman W. Piku), and Aldermen Blackall, Dixie, Firth, Harris, Hinekenwn, knox, and J pike…

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Queanbeyan Borough Council

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 2 July 1898 · page 2

Present Ald. Pike (Mayor), J. Pike, Dixie, Harris, Knox, Blackall, Firth, and Hincksman. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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A Council Clerk Committed

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 July 1898 · page 2

At the Yass Police Court on Wednesday July 6 [?], before C. W. Weeks, P.M., William Hook Margrie was charged with emhezzling £1, the property of the Yass Municipal…

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Braidwood Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 July 1898 · page 2

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Council was held at the Municipal Chambers on Monday evening last. Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Kershaw, Higgins, Bundock, Taylor, Lindsay and…

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The Borough Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 July 1898 · page 2

SAT last night at the Council Chambers, at the usual hour. There was a full attendance, the only member absent being Alderman Dixie…

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