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Riverina · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1905

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Wagga Municipal Council the Fortnightly Meeting. the Town's Gas Supply

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 4

The ordinary meeting of the Wagga Municipal Council was held at the Council Chambers. Town Hall, on Thursday evening. The Mayor Ald. W. J. Blake)…

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Wagga Borough Council. Fortnightly Meeting

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 3

The fortnightly meeting of the Wagga Borough Council was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening. The Mayor (Alderman W. J. Blake)…

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Local Government Bill. Wagga Council's Objections

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 4

Alderman Copland at the meeting of the Wagga Council on Thursday night raised the question of the council's attitude to the Local Government Bill…

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An Officer's Retirement. the Council's Honorium

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 4

Mr. S. J. Williamson wrote resigning his position as Junior Clerk, stating that he had outgrown the position and as there seemed to be no chance of…

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Borough Council. Tuesday Night. Water Rights and Leases

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 3

A special meeting was held on the above nighty convened by order of the mayor to consider two letters that had been received from the Minister for…

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The Town's Gas Supply. Comment in the Council

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 4

At the Wagga Borough Council meeting on Thursday night, Alderman Copland brought forward a complaint regarding the quality of gas supplied…

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Purity of the Water Supply. Discussion in the Council

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 3

At the meeting of the Wagga borough council on Thursday night, Alderman Hardy referred to the dredging and sluciing proceeding in the…

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Woman's Ways. Help for Sick Children. Women as Aldermen. "Shake him up, Missus!" A Mental Void at the Royal Society. Intelligence and a Railway Pass. Two and a Half Governors. Deputy Dog Show Openers. Governors we have had

The Worker · Thursday 5 October 1905 · page 2

Surely never did a day dawn mow inauspiciously and end so gloriously as Monday the Eight-Hour Jubilee. Clouds at first and sunshine thereafter, typical of the…

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Tumut Municipal Council

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 2

The following aldermen were present at the meeting of above Council on Tuesday evening last—Alds. Madigan (Mayor), McNamara, Dear, O'Brien, Beale,…

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Victoria. the New Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

Alderman Waldon was to-day elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne…

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Short Story The Mayor of Saw Mill Flat. (Continued from last weak.)

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 3

Lee had seen the man Cadwell several times during the six months' residence of the [?] at Sawmill Flat; and yet, although something about the man had…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, October 9, 1905. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.m.) Municipal Cases

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 3

The Inspector of Nuisances (Mr. C. A. Cannon) proceeded against several persons for broaches of the borough bylaws:—Arthur Clout was lined 10s,…

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Tumut Municipal Councill

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

A MEETING of the Tumut Municipal Council was held at the cha[?]ers on Tuesday evening last, Ald. J.E. Madigan (Mayor), H. McNama,…

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Borough Council

The Temora Star · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 3
Also in The Cootamundra Liberal

The ordinary meeting of the Temora Borough Council was held on Monday evening. The Mayor (Ald. Meagher) Presided and there were also present Ald. Lazarus…

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Borough Council. Friday Night

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 2

Present—the Mayor (Aid. Lester), and Aid. Pinkstone, Matthews, Mangan, Howell, Birtley, Dickson, and McBeath. Minutes-were confirmed…

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Municipal Medical Service

The Worker · Thursday 12 October 1905 · page 5

So far as I am aware, the proposal for a municipal medical service has never been put forward in a definite form in the British Isles. In switzerland, however, we are…

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Municipal Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 4

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was held on Monday evening, when there were present His Worship the Mayor and…

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Wagga Municipal Council the Fortnightly Meeting

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 4

The regular meeting of the Wagga Municipal Council was held at the Council Chambers, Town Hall, on Thursday evening. The Mayor (Ald. W. J. Blake)…

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Council Meeting

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 2

AFTER five failures to muster a quorum and after a lapse of nearly two months, the local Council met on Thursday evening for the transaction…

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