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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1959

179 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 9

County Council Rejects Move to Held Meetings At Various Centres

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 February 1959 · page 3

The Southern Tablelands County Council last week rejected a move by Aid. J. E. Seiffert (Queanbeyan) to have County Council meetings held in various centres of the district…

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Council To Consider Further Amenities For Camping Area

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 February 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council will consider further amentities for the local camping area when they are finalising the loan programme for the ensuing…

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Shire Too Has Its Worries

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 February 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council is not “Robinson Crusoe” so far as its trouble with persons…

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Shire Concerned About Large Areas Affected By Noxious Weeds

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 February 1959 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council is very concerned with the large areas of noxious weeds in the Shire and intend to take definite steps-to see that satisfactory measures are taken next year to deal with the pest…

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Shire Council Requests Earlier Milk Delivery At Captain’s Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 February 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council Will ask the milk vendor at Captain’s Flat to make arrangement for the earlier delivery of milk at the mining centre…

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Mr. Seiffert Offers to Assist Shire Regarding Finance For Tharwa Road

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 February 1959 · page 1

The Member for Monaro, Mr. J. W. Seiffert, has offered to assist the Yarrowlumla Shire Council in obtaining Government finance for the sealing of Tharwa Road…

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A Bouquet For Shire Council Contractor

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 February 1959 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Councillors, were elated at their meeting last week to receive a letter from a ratepayer…

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Council’s Works Committee Inspects Garbage Depots

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 February 1959 · page 5

The Works Committee of the Queanbeyan Municipal Council hers made an inspection of various depot sites in the town following a visit by an officer of the…

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Good Neighbour Council Helps Pool Fund

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 February 1959 · page 1

The Queanbeyan branch of the Good Neighbour Council, which has been in recess since early…

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Council’s Heavy Loan Requirements for New Financial Year

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 February 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council at its meeting on Wednesday night adopted a programme of loan requirements for 1959-60 amounting to £110,000…

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Council Committee To Meet Schools On Road Crossings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 February 1959 · page 1

At its last meeting, the Queanbeyan Municipal Council appointed a committee of three members to meet representatives of the schools in West Queanbeyan in connection with the provision of pedestrian…

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Council Check On Sewerage Connections

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 March 1959 · page 2

Queanbeyan Municipal Council is to make a check of the Municipality in regard to illegal sewer…

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Shire Council To Apply Supplementary C.A.R. Grant To Tharwa Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 March 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has accepted a supplementary Commonwealth Aid Road Grant for 1958-59 of £3,556 and will apply the money to reconstruction and tar surfacing of their portion of the controversial Tharwa Road, linking the Monaro Highway and Tharwa and Tuggeranong…

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Council’s Polio Campaign Resumed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 March 1959 · page 6

Queanbeyan Municipal Council’s Poliomyelitis Vaccination, Campaign resumed today…

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Special Meeting To Discuss Shire Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1959 · page 1

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council will shortly hold a special meeting to fully consider Shire roads and a plan for doing extensive lengths of black-topping. Cr. T- N, Gorman said he…

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Readers’ Letters to the Editor Shire Methods Hard to Understand Says Michelago Resident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1959 · page 6

It is extremely difficult to understand the Yarrowlumla Shire Council’s methods. I have been told that all their equipment is being used…

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Council Seeks Special Loan for Improving School Access Routes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1959 · page 1

The Queanbeyan Municipal Council decided last night to make application to the Minister, through the local member, for a special loan in the current year for the purpose of improving access routes to the new…

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Town Council Frowns on Sunday Work

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 March 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council will include a clause in future contracts for kerbing and guttering work providing for the work to be done on days other than…

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Council Congratulations Librarian

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1959 · page 2

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has sent a letter of congratulations to the [?] (Mrs H. Hemming)…

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Council To Take Action On Illegal Rental of Garages Shacks

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council intends to take strong action against persons illegally renting, for habitation garages.and shacks in the town, more widely and politely known as “temporary dwellings”…

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