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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1970

127 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 7

Council to get $¼m sewerage works subsidy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has accepted an offer of a subsidy of $250,000 from the State Government towards major extensions at the sewage treatment works…

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Shire ‘thumping’ for special finance

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1970 · page 1

“If we keep on thumping for special financial assistance to maintain roads in our area I feel we will eventually get satisfaction,” the president of Yarrowlumla Shire Council (C[?] Reardon) said at the last meeting…

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Shire to seek opinions on minimum holdings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 July 1970 · page 1

Yarroowlumla Shire Council has asked its Town Planning Committee to consider sending a questionnaire to tall landholders In its area seeking their views on the minimum acreages on which country dwellings can be erected…

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Shire Plans Bungendore Depot

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1970 · page 7

Yarrowlumla Shire Council is to fence an area it has reserved in the recently completed…

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Shire $1,359 in fines

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1970 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council received $1,359 in fines imposed for overloading in the period…

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Council moves to stop dumping

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1970 · page 1

There are some people who apparently couldn’t care less about the antilitter and beautification…

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Reconstruction and maintenance Shire concentrates on the Bungendore area

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1970 · page 6

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has been concentrating its efforts in the Bungendore area in the last month, both in reconstruction and maintenance works, but will soon be moving to other locations. Almost all the plant has…

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Dubious reception to County Council plan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1970 · page 1

A proposal to abolish 34 country councils now distributing electricity throughout the State and replace them with eight area boards, was dubiously received by Southern Tablelands County Council at its meeting this week…

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Shire approves quarry approves

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1970 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council and Multibricks Pty. Ltd. have reached agreement in connection with, extractive industry permits covering seven portions of land adjacent to…

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Council wants traffic route lights subsidy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council has forwarded a submission to the Southern Tablelands County Council requesting that Crawford Street between Monaro and Rutledge Streets, be considered for traffic route lighting subsidy…

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Dwellings in Shire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 6

At the last meeting of Yarowlumla Shire Council the Health Surveyor (Mr R. B. Bush) reported…

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Best Wishes From Shire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 13

The President of Yarrowlumla Shire Council, Councillor E. L. J. Reardon, to-day sent a congratulatory message and best wishes for the new look “Queanbeyan Age.” Cr. Reardon’s message…

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Shire firm on land use

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 5

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has adhered to a previous decision not to permit the keeping of dogs on…

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Shire’s plan to reconstruct coast road

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 9

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will make an allocation of $2,000 each year towards reconstruction on the coast road, between Queanbeyan and the Tallaganda Shire boundary…

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Shire view on Burra Road Reconstruction more urgent than causeways

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 21

Yarowlumla Shire Council believes an expenditure of up to $23,600 to eliminate two causeways on the Burra Road, about two miles from its junction with the Queanbeyan-Royalla Road, would be a waste of public money at this stage…

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Shire Briefs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1970 · page 11

A new road contained in the “Wyoming” sub-division, off the Federal Highway, is to be known…

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Savings Bank loan to shire

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1970 · page 13

Yarrowlumla Shire Council president, Cr. E. L. J. Reardon, has announced that the CBC Savings Bank has made two loans totalling $23,000 available to the council…

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Aldermen too casual-Mayor

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 August 1970 · page 1

The Mayor (Ald. F. E. Land) last night accused some aldermen of the Municipal Council of…

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Alderman’s Claim Thumbing Nose at the Council

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 August 1970 · page 1

Ald. E. J. Beaver claimed at last night’s meeting of the Municipal Council that the proprietor of a service station and garage in Uriarra Road was “thumbing his nose” at the…

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Council views on planting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1970 · page 3

Queanbeyan Municipal Council considers tree planting is not advisable in any street until…

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