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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1959

179 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 9

K. & G. Priority List Approved By Council

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 April 1959 · page 4

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has approved of a kerbing and guttering priority [?] subject to…

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Shire Council Plans Extensive Bitumen Sealing Programme

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 April 1959 · page 1

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council gave an indication of its determination to get as many roads within its boundaries as possible black-topped when it desided yesterday to apply for a loan of £20,000 to go ahead…

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Chrysanthemum Show in Council Chambers Next

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 April 1959 · page 5

The Queanbeyan Horticultural Society will hold a special April show featuring mainly exhibition…

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Railways Deny Any Knowledge of Proposed Letchworth Work Town Council Takes Matter to a Higher level

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 April 1959 · page 3

In a recent letter to the Queanbeyan Municipal Council, the Railways Department stated that nothing was known of a proposal to re-locate the gatekeeper’s cabi at Letchworth. level crossing or to widen such crossing…

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Shire Engineer Gives At Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 April 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council Engineer (Mr. J. M. Firth) was honoured to be asked to give an address on the construction of the pre-stressed concrete Brindabella Bridge at the recent Local Government Engineers’ Conference…

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Country Council To Make Improvements To Sub-stations

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 April 1959 · page 1

Improvements to electricity sub-stations fn Queanbeyan, approved by the Southern Tablelands County…

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Council may Appeal To Court on Power take-Over By STCC

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 April 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council will give consideration at its next meeting of a motion to make an appeal lodge a Court appeal to the High Court for the handing over of electricity within the Municipality of…

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Shire Decides not Final Work On Monaro Highway Too Many Other Big Commitments

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council feels that it has too many other commitments to do the gravelling and black-topping section of the Monaro Highway and will leave this work to the Department of Main Roads…

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Big Public meeting Planned To Discuss County Council Electricity Charges

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1959 · page 1

A public meeting will be held in Queanbeyan shortly to discuss alleged higher commercial and industrial electricity charges since the Southern Tablelands County Council took over distribution from Queanbeyan…

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Shire Used Fire-fighting Equipment

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 May 1959 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has accepted an explanation from its engineer (Mr. J. M. Firth) concerning the…

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Queanbeyan Branch of the Good Neighbour Council Aids Distressed Migrants

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 May 1959 · page 1

One Queanbeyan organisation that does not seek or get a great deal of publicity is the Branch of the Good Neighbour Council, which, since its inception, has many achievements concerning assistance to migrant families to its credit…

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Council Recommends Traffic Islands As Permanent Fixture

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council decided at Its meeting last night to make application to have the traffic islands recently placed near the Hotel Queanbeyan for a trial period, made a permanent fixture…

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Council Seeks Legal Advice On Suggested Appeal To High Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council decided last night refer the question of making an appeal to the High Court for the handing over of electricity within the Municipality to its original distributors to the Council’s…

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Polio Campaign in Shire and Municipality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 2

Applications are now being received by the Yarrowlumla Shire Council for the treatment of children who have hot previous injections in the Poliomyelitis…

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Shire Agrees To Deputation’s Request for Burra Rd. Improvements

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 1

A deputation from the Queanbeyan-Burra-Michelago School Bus Committee waited on the Yarrowlumla Shire Council yesterday to ask for some improvements to the Burro rood…

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Courts Of tennis Courts Too High For Council

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 4

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council considers the cost of putting a permanent sealed surface down on the…

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Heated Discussion on Motion to Alter Council Meeting Dates

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 1

Heated discussion developed at Thursday’s meeting of the Queanbeyan Municipal Council on a motion by Ald. S. G. Mauger that the Council should alter the dates of its meetings. Aid. Mauger had a notice of…

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Council Works Committee to Inspect Proposed New Access and Trunk Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 3

Queanbeyan Municipal Council resolve itself into a Works Committee to inspect and consider various future access and truck roads in the Municipality, reported on by the Engineer, Mr. R. A. Guy, at last week’s…

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Shire Forms Deputation To Postal Inspector

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 May 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Councillors are not satisfied with a reply, received to a recent complaint concerning district posted services and will send a deputation to wait on the District inspector of Postal Services at Canberra…

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Shire To Build Kiosk In Molonglo Park

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1959 · page 4

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council has accepted a quote for the construction of kiosk in Molonglo Park,…

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