Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Council & local affairs, all years

Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1955

216 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 11

Shire Calls Tenders for Power Extensions

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 2

[?] salted tenders for the next phase of its electrification program This is the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Council Approves Rotary Signs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has approved an application by the Rotary Club for the erection of Rotary International signs on the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Council Approves Experiment in Road Formation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 1

Portions of Atkinson and Mowatt Streets are to be formed up with dual carriageways as an experiment in road formation by the Municipal…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Town Council Accepts Loan in Water Plan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 2

Queanbeyan [?] on Thursday night accepted an offer of a loan of £20,000 by the Commonwealth Svings Bank for us…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Electricity Authority Releases Findings No Immediate Move to Form Country Council

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 2

There will be no [?] move to consolidate with the electricity undertaking of the Queanbeyan Municipal Council With those of Tallaganda and Yarrawlumla Shires into…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Sixteen Blocks to be Auctioned Council Approve Sale of Land for Overdue Rates

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council will sell sixteen blocks of land by public auction on November 5. The blocks are the second…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

To Aid Shire in Campaign on Tussock

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 July 1955 · page 5

Braidwood Pastures Protection Board will co-operate with Yarrowlumla Shire Council in the Council’s efforts to detect serrated tussock and…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Council Staff Now Occupy New Offices

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 July 1955 · page 1

Office Staff of the Queanbeyan Municipal Council have moved [?] the new additions to the council Chambers which were…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Inquiry Will Not Be Sought Shire Council to Reinstate Men at Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1955 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council yesterday resolved to reinstate all the men involved in the two months’ old dispute at Captain’s Flat to their former positions…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Labor Candidates for Advisory Council

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1955 · page 2

Canberra ALP branch has received six nominations for pre-selection for the ACT Advisory, Council election in September…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Council Agrees to Commission’s Economy Homes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1955 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council would offer no opposition to the Housing Commission, constructing, lower rental, economy type homes…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Safety Council to Protest if Const. is Not Replaced

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 July 1955 · page 1

Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety Council will protest to the Police Superintendent of Traffic (Supt. Gribble) if no police officer…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Want All Cases to Proceed to Conviction Safety Council Branch Moves on Drunken Drivers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 July 1955 · page 1

Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety Council will sponsor a move to have section 556 (a) of the Crimes Act made non applicable to drivers convicted of the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Another Cheque Sent from Queanbeyan Spastic Council Raised Over £500 in Its First Year

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 July 1955 · page 2

A cheque [?] £200 forwarded yesterday by the Queanbeyan Spastic Centre Council to the Centre at Mosman has brought the Council’s donations for its first year of operations to £500…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Resignations, Worry Municipal Council Round Table Conference on Staff Problems

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 August 1955 · page 1

Reports of unrest among its staff and [?] resignations of key men has prompted Queanbeyan Municipal Council to call a conference in the Council Chambers this…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Shire Men Resume at Captain’s Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 August 1955 · page 1

At the last pay period of Yarralumla Shire Council only four members of the Captain’s Flat Local Fund gang had resumed duty…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

[?]Pastic Council’s Guessing Comp

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 August 1955 · page 5

Queanbeyan Spastic centre Council’s competition for a 44 galion drum of petrol was won by Mr. L. Rixon, c/o Donoghue and…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Horse—&-Buggy Men Defended by Alderman

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 August 1955 · page 2

To The Editor, The Queanbeyan Age— SIR,— Your correspondent, Mr. A. J…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Uriarra Road “Adequate” Say Aldermen Town Ccl Drops Plan for New Canberra Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 August 1955 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council [?] to oppose the proposal [?] construct an alternate route to Canberra. Council made this decision at its…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

More Seeking Electricity from Shire C’cil

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 August 1955 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council is receiving many applications for the supply of electricity from its completed or proposed extensions…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →