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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1964

285 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 15

Shire defers decision on Captain’s Flat sewerage

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1964 · page 1

A decision on the Installation of a sewerage system at Captain’s Flat was deferred at Wednesday’s meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council. Shire Clerk, Mr. E. D…

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Bridge Timbers Removed Shire Council to Take Legal Action

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 7

Yarrowlumla Shire Council intends prosecuting the person who removed a quantity of bridge timbers stacked on an area of land adjoining Scabbin’s Flat Creek on the…

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Shire Council to act on demolition at Captains Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 7

The owner of premises in Foxlow Street, Captain’s Flat, which were gutted by fire last year is to be asked to attend the; next meetings of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council…

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Engineer Reports to Council Major portion of town residential areas sewered

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 1

Approximately 85 per cent, of the residential areas of Queanbeyan are now sewered, as a result of the Municipal Council's extensive programme of mains extensions in the past few years…

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Council to Cleanup Rubbish

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1964 · page 6

The Municipal Council has taken on the task of cleaning rubbish dumped adjacent to Freebody…

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Crumbs from the Council table

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1964 · page 3

The Department of Public Health has advised that it will raise no objection to a portion of the sanitary…

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Captain’s Fiat News Shire Briefs From Captain’s Policy on Access Roads Confirmed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1964 · page 6

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has reaffirmed its recently stated policy not to carry out any further maintenance on access roads, which are not designated as public roads. This was indicated at the…

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Shire Council deputation on rubbish

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 1

Officers of the Department of Interior have indicated that investigations would be made into the…

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Shire Polio Campaign

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 7

At its last poliomyelitis vaccination clinic,, Yarrowlumla Shire treated five children at Bungendore…

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Shire decides against meetings at Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 3

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has, at this stage, turned down a request from the Bungendore Progress Association that some meetings of the council be held at that centre. Council has advised the…

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Shire firm on programme for C.A.R. works

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has requested the Department of Public Works to allow its 1964-65 Commonwealth Aid Roads programme, as originally submitted, to stand…

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Further hitch with County Council depot

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 8

There has been a further hitch with the building of the Southern Tablelands County Council depot in…

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Council renews agitation for Government office buildings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has again taken up with the Minister of Justice, Mr. N. J. Mannix, a proposal for the building of a combined office block in the town, to house a new Court House and other State…

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News for the Man on the Land Shire steps up noxious weeds programme

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 9

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has submitted a noxious weeds for 1964-65 designed to cover an extensive increase in works control on roads and land under council control The programme is…

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Crumbs from the Council table

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1964 · page 9

The Minister for Interior has advised the Municipal Council that it is not possible to supply street trees…

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Increase in Council’s 1963 revenue surplus

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1964 · page 1

The aggregate revenue of the Municipal Council for 1963 showed an overall revenue surplus of £12,348, an increase of £5,362 compared to the previous year. This is stated by the…

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Council writes off £16, 870 in depreciation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1964 · page 7

Queanbeyan Municipal Council, has written, off a total of £16,810 in depreciation for the year 1963…

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CORRESPONDENCE Council resumptions

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 September 1964 · page 3

Sir. — The Municipal Council of Queanbeyan has no right morally to sell 10 blocks of land for unpaid…

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Council limits loan programme to £140,000

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 September 1964 · page 1

The Municipal Council will limit its loan programme for the current year, 1964-65, to approximately £140,000, as adopted earlier this year…

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First council summons under its new policy

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 September 1964 · page 4

The fist summonses issued by the Queanbeyan Municipal Council since it changed its policy in regard to the occupation of garages and temporary dwellings , were dealt…

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