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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1962

296 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 15

Town council is utilising Shire land

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 July 1962 · page 9

It has been discovered that a portion of land belonging to the Yarrowlumla Shire, is fenced in with the…

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Road Safety Council’s Poster Competition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 July 1962 · page 3

Queanbeyan Floral Festival Central Committee has donated £10 towards the prizemoney for the Road…

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Town council is utilising Shire land

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1962 · page 9

It has been discovered that a portion of land belonging to the Yarrowlumla Shire, is fenced in with the…

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Shire may take over septic tank

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1962 · page 4

The two Captain’s Flat councillors, Cr. T, P. Kerr and J. M. Ireland, are to give consideration to a…

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Council moves against cars on footpaths

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1962 · page 1

At last meeting of the Municipal Council, Ald. E. J. Beaver again raised the matter of cars parked on…

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Captain’s Flat News Shire can’t reduce grade on road at present time

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1962 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council decided at its last meeting that it could not, at this stage, out work to reduce the grade on the Jerangle Road, on the outskirts of Captain’s Flat…

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Council Priorities for Off-street Park Area

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 July 1962 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council, at its meeting last night, decided to give No. 1 priority to the area bounded by Monoro, Crawford, Rutledge and Lowe Streets, in regard to the provision of off-street…

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Good attendance at special meeting of Good Neighbour Council

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 July 1962 · page 3

Queanbeyan Branch of the Good Neighbour Council held a special meeting last Wednesday night, to finalise plans for the coming International Dance…

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Mayor’s tribute Show Society

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 July 1962 · page 1

Mayor of Queanbeyan Aid. A. Lambert, said last night the P. A. and H. Association was contributing…

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Council rates coming in

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 July 1962 · page 1

At the end of June, Queanbeyan Municipal Council had collected £134,004 in respect combined rates and…

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Shire Briefs

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 July 1962 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has re-invested, for a period of six months, £20,000 it holds in leans to…

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Shire Briefs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 July 1962 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire has deferred until tomorrow’s meeting a request that vehicles be stopped parking at…

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Shire confirms its decision on road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 July 1962 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has confirmed a decision made at its previous meeting to demand a sealed road, as the access to the Wicker slack sub-division…

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Shire’s Health Week Essay

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1962 · page 8

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council will hold its traditional Health Week Essay competition against this year…

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Serrated Tussock Problem Shire maintains its vigorous campaign

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1962 · page 7

Yarrowlumla Shire Council is maintaining a vigorous: campaign against landholders who fail to make an effort to control Serrated Tussock…

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Captain’s Flat will not become a ghost town Councillor’s Assurance to Shire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1962 · page 1

Cr. T. P. Kerr told fellow members of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council on Wednesday, that any thought of Captain’s Flat becoming a ghost town, could be forgotten. Cr. Kerr said he was very…

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Shire summonses two ’Flat men

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 4

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will prosecute two men at Captain’s Flat for failure to pay hire charges to the…

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Shire again approves Sutton piggery

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 9

Yarrowlumla shire Council will write again to the Board of Health at Wollongong, recommending a…

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Council’s attitude on Yass Road criticised

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 1

Queanbeyan land agents and landholders in Yass Road, are alarmed at a recent decision to widen the road and fix a new building line…

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Captain’s Flat Road Reconstruction Shire not to proceed with proposed deviation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1962 · page 8

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has decided not to proceed with plans for a deviation from Burbong to Stoney Creek on the Captain’s Flat road, but to carry out reconstruction on the old route, between the seven mile and the junction with the coast road, about…

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