Mayor of Queanbeyan Opens Soccer Season Social Tennis
THE MAYOR, Ald. A. Lambert, kicked off for the opening match of the ACT Soccer Association’s competition at Queanbeyan Park last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1955
216 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 11
Flat Drainage Problem Settled by Shire Council
Improvements to drainage near The cottages in Montgomery Street, Captain’s Flat will be carried out by Yarralumla Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electricity Conference Here Next Week Country Council to be Discussed by Shire Councils
Yarralumla Shire Council will meet representatives of the Tallaganda Shire Council to discuss the desirability of a County Council in connexion with the electricity undertakings of both…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Australia Welcomes You, ” says Mayor Four New Settlers are Naturalised at Civic Ceremony
“Australia welcomes you. She hopes of great things from you as citizens of this new Commonwealth and builders of her future” the Mayor (Ald. A. Lambert) told the four new settlers who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£60,000 in Machines Demonstrated Shire Could Have ½ mill More Sheep
If only half of the 700,000 acres of Goodradigbee Shire not under improved pastures were sown down at least half a million sheep extra could be carried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DMR Approves Shire Road Program £11,500 Available for Tar Sealing
The Department of Main Roads will make [?] available to Yarralumla Shire Council for its 1655-56 road construction program. Advice of this was received from works on trunk roads as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Engineer Under Fire From Councillors Speedup Urged in Shire Works
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has asked its engineer (Mr. J. M. Firth) to speed up various projects throughout the Shire and to make fuller use of the expensive road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Subsidy to Provide Hospital Rates
Queanbeyan Municipal Council [?] subsidise the District Hospital to the extent of £52 each year. The subsidy will be used to cover…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Planning will Attract Industry Council is Told
The declaration of a[?] area and the provision of all town services to that area would be almost certain to attract…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Safety Council Plans Blitz on Double Parking
Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety Council will press for a blitz on double parking in the towns main streets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Engineer Lists Urgent Drainage Works Council Decides on Priority for Town Drainage
An order of priority for drainage works in Queanbeyan was accepted by the Municipal Council at its meeting on Thursday night. The list covers what the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipality of Queanbeyan Sanitary Labourer
Applications, suitably endorsed, are invited and will be received by the undersigned up till 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 2nd June, 1955,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Spastic Centre Council Meeting
The first annual general meting of the Queanbeyan Spastic Centre Council will be held at the Intermediate High School…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“People in Fear of Health Inspector” Shire Plan for B’dore Housing is Criticised
A claim that the Yarrowlumla Shire Council’s campaign for a higher standard of dwellings in Bungendore was causing people there to live in fear of the Health Inspector (Mr. C. E. R. Meyer)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Council Inspects [?] at Captain’s Flat
Members of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council, with the Shire Engineer (Mr. J. M.[?] visited Captain’s Flat on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CWA Group Council to Meet in Q’beyan
The Country Women’s Association Southern Tablelands Group Council meeting will take place in Queanbeyan on June 14…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Agrees to Preliminary Surveys Being Made Alternate Route to Link Canberra and Q’beyan
Queanbeyan Municipal Council last night agreed to have preliminary. survey investigations made in conjunction with the Main Roads Department into a possible alternative route from Queanbeyan to Harman to link with the present road to Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Engineer to Check Ramps
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has [?] its engineer (Mr. J. Firth) to make an inspection of all stock ramps on roads in its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire Ccl’s Special Meeting on Electricity Contract Let for 3-Phase Supply to Bungendore
The Electricity Commission of New South Wales has let a contract for the construction of an 11,000 volt, 3-phase line from Queanbeyan to Bungendore…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Warns Amateur Elctricians
A warning on the dangers of incorrectly wired fittings and app[?]ances was issued by the Queanbeyan Municipal Council at its…
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