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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1960

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New Quarry Traffic Presents A Big Problem For Shire Council

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council is concerned at the damage being caused to the Stringybark Hill section of the old Cooma Road, by gravel trucks working from the new quarry four miles from Queanbeyan…

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The Mayor’s Happy Day

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 1

The Mayor of Queanbeyan (Ald. A. Lambert) pictured this morning after he had “turned the first sod” in the construction of the Queanbeyan Olympic Swimming Pool. Work on the pool commenced today. Seen with the Mayor are Mr. K. Schriener (left), the building…

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Mayor Turns First Sod; Work Starts On New Pool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 1

At a simple, but impressive ceremony this morning, before some 100 people the Mayor of Queanbeyan (Ald. A. Lambert) turned the first…

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Move For Later Start To Council Meetings

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 2

Alderman Mrs. T. N. Donoghoe gave notice of motion at last week’s meeting of the…

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Shire Council Purchases House For Office Staff

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 February 1960 · page 3

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has purchased a home in Ross Road Queanbeyan for the sum of…

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Visiting Parliamentarians Meet Members Good Neighbour Council

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 February 1960 · page 1

The Executive and many members of the Queanbeyan Branch of the Good Neighbour Council and four members of the local branch of the New South Wales Graziers’ Association, gathered on Wednesday morning at the Tharwa Road…

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Council Plans To Raise Loans For Work Programme

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 February 1960 · page 1

For the next five years, beginning with the 1960/61 financial year, Queanbeyan Municipal Council will include £15,000 in its loan estimates each year to provide for new sealing work and kerbing and…

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Shire Briefs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 February 1960 · page 6

Health Inspector Mr. C. E. R. Meyer advised the last meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council that…

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Shire Agrees To Alter Meeting Days

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 February 1960 · page 3

‘The Yarrowlumla Shire Council is expected to agree once again to after the day set aside for its…

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Council Gets “Tough” On Car “Wrecks”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 February 1960 · page 5

Queanbeyan Municipal Council plans to take strong action in regard to virtual “car wrecks” left…

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County Council Move On Tussock Rejected

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1960 · page 9

The majority of constituent councils on the Central and Southern Tablelands Serrated Tussock Committee have decided against the formation of a county council to control noxious weeds…

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Government Will Not Subsidise Widow’s Rates Local Council’s Move Fails

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1960 · page 1

The Minister for Local Government has advised the Queanbeyan Municipal Council that no funds were available whereby it would be possible to subsidise…

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Newly Appointed Officer To Attend Good Neighbour Council Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 1

Mr. G. G. Sutcliffe, off Canberra, who has recently been appointed to the position of Co-ordination Officer for the Good Neighbour Movement in Australia, will…

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Road Safety Council Wants A Parking Policeman For Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 February 1960 · page 1

Queanbeyan Branch of the Road Safety Council will ask the Superintendent of Traffic, to give consideration to making parking policemen available in Queanbeyan for a trial period. The Branch decided on…

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Queanbeyan Alderman Praised in Goulburn Newspaper Editorial

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 March 1960 · page 5

Queanbeyan alderman and delegate to the Southern Tablelands County Council, Ald. J. E. Seiffart has been praised in an editorial in the Goulburn” Evening…

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No Change of Venue for Monthly Meeting of Country Council

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 March 1960 · page 1

A move by a Queanbeyan delegate to hold! some meetings of the Southern Tablelands County Council in centres other than Goulburn was defeated at the last meeting of the council…

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Shire Disatisfied With new £10,000 Loader

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 March 1960 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council decided on Wednesday, to request the company from which it recently purchased a £10,000 “loader” to take the machine back and cancel the purchase contact…

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Aldermen Should Not Be Worried By Direct Complaints Mayor Outspoken At Thursday’s Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 1

The Mayor of Queanbeyan, Ald. A. Lambert ,has attacked the actions of some residents of the town in taking their complaints direct to aldermen instead of through the “proper channels ” at the municipal…

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Mayor Attends Canberra Trade Union Picnic

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 1

The Mayor Of Queanbeyan Ald Arthur Lambert, was one of the official party at the official opening of the annual trade union picnic at the Manuka Oval,…

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Shire Assists With Soil Conservation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will co- operate with the Soil Conservation Service of N.S.W in experimental…

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