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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1908

191 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 10

The Law and the Labor Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 2

It is the boast of some very smart persons that they are able to drive a coach and four through any Act of Parliament…

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Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 2

The regular fortnightly meeting of the Council was held on Monday night last. Present: Ald. Olivey (Mayor), Coffey, Scott, O'Connell, Cooper, and Lindsay…

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No Trips for Aldermen

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 2

THE Government does not regard very seriously the scheme for giving country aldermen and shire councillors a free trip to Sydney, with their…

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Municipal Council

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 2
Also in The Queanbeyan Observer

The usual fortnightly meeting of the above was held last night. Present: The Mayor (Alderman E. C. Hincksman) and Aldermen Moore, Collett, Gibbs, Harrison, Oldfield and…

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Shire Appeal Court

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 2

THE above court was held on Wednesday last before Mr. Elliott, P.M., when Alex. J. McDonald appealed against the Shire Council's rating of…

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Shire Councils and Their Boards

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 2

MR. G. S. BEEBY, M.L.A., writing to the Turon Shire Council, says that he and a number of other members of Parliament had had a discussion in…

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A Wrestling Woman. Wife of an Alderman. Bosses a Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 5

Mrs Michael Koziak, remarks the Chicago "Inter-Ocean," is the champion woman wrestler at Whiting, Ind., as well as the wife of Alderman "Mike"…

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The New Municipal Taxation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 2

THE following remarks on the new system of Municipal taxation are worthy of more than a passing thought; It is customary for the advocates of…

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Yarrowlumla Shire Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 2

THE above council held its monthly meeting on Wednesday last. The President (Cr. McCarthy) was the only member absent, and the chair…

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Yarrowlumla Shire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 2

THERE were present at Wednesday's meeting of the above Cr. Falconer (chair) and Councillors Crace, Keeffe, Kelly and Gordon. An apology was read from the President,…

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Tallaganda Shire Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 2

A meeting of the Council was held on Thursday morning last. Present: Crs. Hassall (President), Alley, Roberts, Mackellar, and Maddrell…

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Municipal Council

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 July 1908 · page 2

The regular fortnightly nesting of the Municipal Council was held on Monday night last. Present: Alderman Olivey (Mayor), Coffey, Scott, O'Connell, Taylor, Cooper, Lindsay, and J. Higgins…

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An Alderman Killed

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2

ON Wednesday morning Alderman Patrick Joseph Drindon, of Rookwood, was run over and killed by a train at the Rookwood railway…

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Municipal Council

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

THE only absentee from last night's meeting of the above council was Alderman Gibbs. The Finance Committee reported a…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Friday, July 3, 1908. the Position of Shire Councils

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2

THE "Farmer and Settler" discusses the present shackled position of Shire Councils with the Public Works Department, and talks some first rate…

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Municipal Taxation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 6

An exchange remarks; "The effect of the rating on unimproved capital values will go" a long way towards killing the business of the Sydney suburban dairyman. As an…

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A Paris Suffragette. Municipal Contest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 5

For the first time in the municipal history of Paris (writes the Paris correspondent of the "Daily News, on 30th April) a woman is a competitor for the…

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New Municipal Ordinances. Public Health and Safety

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1908 · page 2

ORDINANCE 30 recently gazetted and now in force in all municipalities in the State deals with matters concerning the public health, safety, and convenience and nuisances. In…

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