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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1971

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Council seeks, advice on showgrounds

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1971 · page 5

The Municipal Council is endeavouring to ascertain what action, if any, the N.S.W. Standing…

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Post Office a “shearing shed” says alderman

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1971 · page 1

Aid. E. J. Beaver on Thursday night referred to the new Post Office being constructed on the…

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Mayor appeals for Remembrance Day observance

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1971 · page 6

The Mayor (Ald. F. E. Land) has appealed to all members of the community to observe the commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of the signing of the First…

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Council move to take over Park dressing sheds

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1971 · page 6

Queanbeyan Municipal Council may take over the dressing sheds in Queanbeyan Park and use the building for whatever purpose it considers necessary if…

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Ex-Alderman lends a helping hand

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1971 · page 22

About six weeks ago, it looked very much as though the Floral Festival would have to go on…

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Mayor to inspect crossing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1971 · page 2

The Mayor (Ald. F. E. Land) promised at Thursday night’s Municipal Council meeting to…

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Mayor here for this one

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1971 · page 11

The Mayor of Queanbeyan, Ald. Fred Land, must have had mixed feelings at Festival time…

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Shire inundated with boundary queries

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1971 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has been inundated with replies to a circular letter sent to ratepayers involved in the proposed extension of the boundaries of the Municipality of…

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Aircraft noise cause of Council query

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1971 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council is seeking advice from the Department of Civil Aviation on proposed future flight paths for aircraft landing and taking off at Fairbairn airport…

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Club to meet council costs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 November 1971 · page 1

Queanbeyan League’s Club has agreed to meet all the Municipal Council’s resumption and…

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Warning on Shire Staff Cuts

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1971 · page 1

Increases in awards and rising costs could force a retrenchment of staff by Yarrowlumla Shire Council next year the Deputy President, Cr. T. N. Gorman, warned last week…

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Mayor Sees No Local Agreement

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1971 · page 9

The Mayor (Ald. F. E. Land) said at Thursday night’s meeting of the Municipal Council it was “pretty obvious” that its proposals for boundary extensions would not be determined at…

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Council Reduces Rates

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1971 · page 1

Gunning Shire Council this week reduced rates for 1972 from four cents in the dollar to…

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Sittings at Council Chambers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1971 · page 8

The Workers’ Compensation Commission of New South Wales will sit at the Yarralumla Shire…

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Dam Will Cut Shire’s Rate Revenue

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1971 · page 1

Construction of a proposed dam at Googong on the Queanbeyan River to augment Canberra’s water supply, will result in a substantial loss of rates for Yarrowlumla Shire…

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Letters to the Editor Town and shire should merge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1971 · page 9

Sir, The Shire of Yarrowlumla was disembowelled earlier this century by the creation of the Australian Capital Territory…

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Shire Moves to Re-open Hospital

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 November 1971 · page 10

Yarralumla Shire Council is making another effort to try and interest someone in leasing the vacant hospital building at Captain’s Flat as a nursing home for post operative or geriatric patients. This follows advice form…

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County Council to Retrench 19 Staff Members

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 November 1971 · page 8

“The work is just not here,” Chairman of the Southern Tablelands County Council, Cr. L. J. Reardon, said on Monday at a meeting which decided to retrench 19 employees…

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Council accepts $137,250 loan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 December 1971 · page 1

The Mayor, Aiderman Mr. Land, announced today that the Commonwealth Savings Bank had made a loan of $137,250 to the Queanbeyan Muncipal Council…

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Town Rate Rise Likely—shire Down (By a staff reporter)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1971 · page 1

At a special meeting tonight, aldermen of Queanbeyan Municipal Council are expected to be faced with estimates for 1972 which will necessitate a substantial rate increase…

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