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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1907

302 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 16

A Progressive Shire Council

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 2

Bibbenluke Shire Council at its last meeting decided to offer Mr. Newton the position of engineer and clerk combined at a salary of £430 a year,…

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Shire Council

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

The regular meeting of the Shire Council was held yesterday at the courthouse. Present: Cs. R. G. Hassall (presiding), J. E. Mackellar, E. A…

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Shire of Yarrowlumla

The Age · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

AT next meeting of the above Council there will doubtless be important business transacted in the way of getting matters in train for the administration…

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Lord Mayor in Paris. the Third Visit

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3

The third State visit of a Lord Mayor of London to Paris was very notable. It occurred in [?] 1875, after an internal [?] by…

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Shire Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 2

The Tallaganda Shire Council met in their room at the Court House on Thursday morning Present: Councilors Hassall (President). Alley, Maddrell, Mackellar. Roberts, and Byrne…

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Shire Council

The Age · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2
Also in The Queanbeyan Leader

THE usual meeting of the above was held at the Shire offices, Crawford Street, on Wednesday last, all the councillors being present. The minutes of last meeting were read and…

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Yarrowlumla Shire Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

A MEETING was held, on Wednesday at the shire office in Crawford-street, all the councillors being present. In accordance with instructions…

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Shire Council Seal

The Age · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

THE design prepared by Mr. C: E. Emery as a seal for the Shire of Yarrowlumla was accepted by the council at last meeting. The seal is emblematic…

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Shire Councils' Subsidies

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

THOUGH most of the shire councils have contrived to get into working order they have been able so far to accomplish very little owing to the…

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The Two Lords. Mayor and Chancellor

The Age · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 3

The Lord Mayor-elect, Sir William Purdie Treloar, accompanied by the Sheriffs, and attended by the chief civic officials, drove in State to the…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated, Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, January 11, 1907. the Shire Clerk

The Age · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

THE principal business at last Wednesday's meeting of the Shire of Yarrow-lumla was the appointment of a shire council clerk, applications for which…

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Municipal Sale Yards

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

It will be recollected that some weeks ago a petition was forwarded to the Municipal Council asking that body to consider the advisability of establishing…

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Tallaganda Shire Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

The Council met at the Courthouse at 10 a.m. yesterday. Present: Councillors Hassall (in the chair), Byrne, Robert At[?] Maddrall, and Mackellar, Mr. Millard, the Roads Engineer and…

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Braid wood Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

[?] at 7.30 on [?] Present: [?] (Mayor), [?] Moriarty, [?] received from [?] Department of…

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Shire Council

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

The regular meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday, the day of meeting having been altered from Thursdays for convenience of councillors…

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Shire Council Clerk

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

It appears that under ordinance 295, Shires’ .Council Act, gazetted on December 13, it is stipulated that no permanent appointment, such as clerk,…

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Borough Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2
Also in The Age

THE only absentee from list night's meeting was Alderman Oldfield. The correspondence included several letters from the Public Works…

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Council Meeting

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

The ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Monday evening, his Worship the Mayor presiding. The absentees were Aldermen Kershaw, Chapmau,…

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