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Council & local affairs, 1946

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Resignation From Mitchell Shire Council

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1946 · page 2

Cr. R. S. Holloway, of the Mitchell Shire Council, who recently disposed of his property at Shepherds Siding and is now to reside in…

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Improvements to Albury Road Mitchell Shire Council to Make Start

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1946 · page 3

The Mitchell Shire Council will shortly arrange specifications for the re-gravelling of the portion of Trunk Road 57 (Albury road) between Wagga and Uranquinty. The Department of Main Roads has…

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Kyeamba Shire Proud of Wagga's New Status Highlights From Yesterday's Council Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1946 · page 2

The Kyeamba Shire Council is to send congratulations to the Mayor (Alderman J. V. Doyle) and aldermen of the Wagga City Council on the elevation of Wagga to the status of a city. Referring to the recent…

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Gas Likened to Crinolines Junee Council Critical of Government Suggestion

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 May 1946 · page 4

Junee Aldermen waxed critical on the State Government when a communication was received from the Minister for Works and Local…

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Jindalee Shire

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

Crs. A. Donaldson (president), C. Morrow, L. Bennett, G. Davidson, R. Ward, J. Moore, C. Manwaring, and S. Dillon attended the ordinary monthly…

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Tumut Saleyards Inadequate Public Urged To Press Shire Council For Expansion

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

The great congestion of stock at the Tumut Saleyards yesterday brought a deal of trenchant comment on the great delay in the…

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Murrumbidgee Electorate Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 4

The attendance at this meeting was: I Messrs. J. C. Thorne (Griffith, Chairman). W. R. Seilley (Corobimilla. hon. Treasurer). T. L. Bull (Narandera),…

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Shire Clerk Reports on Housing Proposals

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

FOLLOWING on the deputation from the P. and C. Association the previous week, Mr. Austin Thompson furnished the…

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Move Made in Shire Housing Scheme

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

Cr. W. G. Drummond, the deputy president, addressed the Lockhart Shire Council, on Monday, on the subject of housing. He took it that…

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Engineer's Report to Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 3

MR. S. D. Caldwell, shire engineer) reported to Council on Thursday night as follows:— WORKS PROGRESS…

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Council Supports Technical College

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

ON Thursday night last a letter from the District Council of Parents and Citizens' Association, came before the Shire…

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Lockhart Shire Councillors Against Organised Sunday Carnivals

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Lockhart Shire Council was held on Monday. Present: Councillors A. D. Finlayson (president), W. G. Drummond…

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Lockhart Shire to Be Asked to Borrow £30,000

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 4

Declaring that the council would have to undertake the task itself, Councillor Gordon Drummond, Deputy President of the Lockhart…

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Australian Country Party Riverina Electorate Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Riverina Electorate Council of the Australian Country Party war held in the supper room of the Criterion Hall…

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Railway Commissioners Ignore Council Eradication of Caltrops

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the Leeton Shire Council served a notice on the Railway Commissioners, requesting them to co-operate in the…

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Council Correspondence Dealt with at Thursday's Meeting

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

THE following correspondence came up for consideration at the regular meeting of the Shire Council held on Thursday night…

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The Proposed County Council Another Conference at Cootamundra

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

Last Friday representatives of the Shires of Jindalee, Burrangong, Illano and Gundagai, together with the Emergency Committee of the Northern…

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Shire's Financial Position Old Time Gaiety for Victory Ball Rates Down, Wages Up

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

In furnishing the Shire Council with a report on rate collections, the shire clerk (Mr. Austin Thompson) stated that the total rates collected The meeting of the Welcome Home Committee, which was presided over by the Shire President, last night decided to procure jazz caps and…

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Rates On Church Land Cr. Struck Suggests Council Should Drop Case

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

THE Shire President, Cr. B. A. Struck, on Thursday night last expressed the opinion that the Council would be wise not to go…

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Wants Council to Dispose of Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Alderman Bartley will advocate that the Sydney County Council dispose or the hotels which it owns, worth about…

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