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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1959

179 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 9

Shire Wants Service Charges Removed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will ask the Southern Tablelands County Council to give immediate consideration to the abolition of service charges. The Shire considers that country consumers are…

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Shire Objects to Move to Take Over P.p. Boards

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1959 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will join with other Local Government bodies in protesting against the move to have Shire Councils take over the functions of…

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Shire Briefs From Captain’s Flat Waratah Street to Be Kerbed and Guttered

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1959 · page 6

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council has called tenders for kerbing and guttering work in Captain’s Flat. The work involves the…

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Council Accepts Offer Of £40,000 Loan for Swimming Pool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1959 · page 1

Swimming Municipal Council has received on offer of a loan of £40,000 towards the cost of constructing the Olympic Swimming Pool in the town. The Council went into Committee to discuss certain…

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Council Committee to Inspect Site of P. A. & H. Building

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1959 · page 1

The Queanbeyan Municipal Council decided on Thursday night that the Parks, Reserves and Recreation Areas Committee should inspect, the site before a…

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Most Children in Shire Vaccinated

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1959 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council’s poliomyelitis vaccination campaign has resulted in 95 per cent of…

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Shire Takes Action on Noxious Weeds

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1959 · page 5

Yarrowlumla Shire Council is to make an all-out effort this year in regard to the eradication and control of noxious weeds. At its last meeting the…

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Council’s Move On Serrated Tussock Control

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1959 · page 2

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council has deferred consideration of the formation of a County Council for the…

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Road Safety Council Alarmed At Accident Increase In Municipality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Branch of the Rood Safety Council of N.S.W. is extremely alarmed .at the rapid increase in the number of traffic accidents in the Municipality and consideration is at present being given to immediate…

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Finances Of County Council Are Healthy Officers Praised At Yesterday’s Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1959 · page 1

Councillors of the reconstituted Southern Tablelands County Council yesterday paid tribute to the Council's officers for the satisfactory state of the Council’s finances during the first four months of operation…

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Aldermen to Attend L.g. Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council last night appointed Aid D. F. Campbell and Aid. Mrs. T. N. Donnghoe…

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1959 Coff’s Harbour Shire Tourist Festival

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 6

The Shire Coff’s Harbour, which embraces the towns of Coff’s Harbour, Sawtell, Woolgoolga and Coramba, is situated on the sunny North Coast of New South Wales and is the centre of the largest banana producing area in the…

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No Secession Discussion On Council Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council took no action last night on a report tabled by the Town Clerk (Mr. R. B. Smith) on the legal aspects of secession, from N.S.W. and amalgamation into the A.C.T…

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Council Concerned at Effect on Town of Adverse Press Publicity

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 1

Aldermen of the Queanbeyan Municipal Council lost night attacked recent press statements attributed to the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Maloney) and the secretary of the Shop Assistants’ Union (Mr…

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Mayor To Preside AT Good Neighbour Council Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1959 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Queanbeyan branch of the God Neighbour Council will be held on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the C.W.A. Rooms, Crawford Street Queanbeyan. The Mayor (Ald. A…

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Shire Asks Department to Reconsider

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1959 · page 6

[?] Shire Council will request the Department of Main Roads to reconsider a decision not to…

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New Service Station Approved by Council

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1959 · page 5

A new service station was among building applications approved by the Queanbeyan Municipal Council at its meeting on Thursday night…

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Council Will Not Erect R.s.l. Sign

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1959 · page 6

Yarrowlumla Shire Council, will not place a sign in Captain’s Flat adjacent to the Police Station,…

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Council Approves New Office On Showground

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1959 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has approved of the erection of a weatherboard secretary’s office by the Queanbeyan P. and H. Association on portion of the Showground adjacent to Farrer Place…

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Road Safety Council Displays Accident Map

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1959 · page 2

The Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety Council has arranged to exhibit an accident, map of the…

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