Correspondence (To the Editor.) The Aldermen and Their Job
Sir,—Recently the Municipal Counnearly bought a hangar. Yes, it would have cost the ratepayers £1000: and much of that £1000: would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Riverina · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1939
1,516 stories in Riverina's papers · page 26 of 76
Shock for Council Treasury Refuses to Waive Pine Appeal to Minister
Considerable surprise was caused at a meeting of the Lachlan Shire Council (Condoblin) when it was announced that the Treasury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murrumbidgee Shire Council Monthly Meeting
The Murrumbidgee Shire Council met on Tuesday, 18th April, the meeting having been postponed from the preceding Friday owing to torrential…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire Premises Unsewered But Council Notifying Private Householders
AT the meeting of the Shire Council, Cr. Mountford brought under the notice of his fellow-Councillors that they were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire Councillor Injured Bathurst
A. E. Wilcox, aged 58 years, president of the Oberon Shire Council, was gravely injured when his horse fell and rolled on him to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Maintenance Plan for Shire Roads
RECENT discussions on the maintenance of roads, freely stated by the Shire Councillors at their meetings to be "falling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire Road Work; Report by Engineer
The Allis Chalmers Tractor and grader have been working on Trunk Road No. 80, between Leeton and Griffith doing maintenance work for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Committee of Management for Cricket Ground Shire Decision
AN exhaustive report on the matters pertaining to the Leeton Cricket Ground was placed before the Council by the special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crumbs From the Council Table
A RECOMMENDATION of the Building Committee that fittings as required by the Local Government Act be installed in a building on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Repairs to Rain-damaged Roads Shire Applies for Grant
FOLLOWING a lead from the Wade Shire, the Willimbong Council is making application to the Government for a grant to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strict Enforcement of Fowl-house Regulations the Shire Health Inspector's Report
IN future the Shire's Health Inspector is to strictly enforce the Local Government Ordinance which states that all poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hundreds of Bad Spots Shire Can Do No Work on Whitton Punt Road
THAT THERE are "hundreds of spots like that" was the candid comment made at the Willimbong Shire Council meeting when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Potential Murderers" Government Criticised Over Burrinjuck Dam Discussion at Wagga Council
If the Government insisted on keeping the water in Burrinjuck Dam at a nigh level, they would be potential murderers, said Ald. J. A. Harrison,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Statement Made at Soldiers' Meeting Retracted "No Intention of Offending Any Member of Council"
AT the April meeting of the Shire Council the Clerk was instructed to write to the Returned Soldiers' League and ask for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire's Valuations of Farm Lands Sustained Appeals of Two Large Area Farmers Dismissed Test Cases Before Land and Valuation Court
THE first sittings of the Land and Valuation Court in Leeton were held at the court house on Wednesday last when Mr. Justice Roper heard two of the six test cases of large area farmers appealing against the valuations placed on their irrigation farms by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Municipal Matters Points of Interest From Last Night's Meeting
Three weeks' business was transacted by the Wagga Municipal Council at its meeting last night. The Mayor (Ald. H. E. Gissing presided and others…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wagga Council Cheerful Aldermen
The Aldermen were a cheerful team over the Air School news when they met at Thursday's Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mayor And Mayoress Entertain Social to Aldermen and Wives
Although announced a day or two earlier, a social given by the Mayor and Mayoress, Ald. H. E. and Mrs. Gissing at the Council Chambers. on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leeton Memorial Hall Discussion by Willimbong Shire Council Leeton
An amendment moved by Cr. Struck at the Willimbong Shire Council meeting this week that the proposed plan for the building of a soldiers' memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BURRINJUCK Aldermen Demand Safe Water Level Potential Murderers
Recent suggestions in the "Express'' that the Council should demand that water in Burrenjuck Dam should be kept at a level that would enable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →