Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Council & local affairs, all years

Riverina · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

1,275 stories in Riverina's papers · page 15 of 64

Petrol Tax and Council Road Works

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: An allocation of £160,000 has been made to councils from the proceeds of petrol tax this year for the first…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Someone Complained About the Council Community Hotel Mystery Solved

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

Some weeks ago members of the Leeton Shire Council were mystified by a letter from the Department of Local Government asking if the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Griffith Council Urged To Use Scenic Hill Route to Aerodrome

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 4

A. deputation from the Griffith Chamber of Commerce and the Progress Association requested the Wade Shire Council at its recent meeting to give serious consideration to the route of the aerodrome road…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Papanek Openly Accuses the Soviet Before U.N.O. Security Council

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday: Communist plans to seize power in Italy were alleged by Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan, after the Security Council…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Desperate State of Shire Roads Local Government Waging a Losing Battle New Approach To Problem On Financial And Utilitarian Grounds Necessary

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 3

Roads in the Tumut Shire are deteriorating to such an extent that they are reverting to bullock-waggon tracks of 50 years ago. Excepting for a few odd miles of road in this and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Zionist Council to Meet

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Tuesday: The Jewish Agency executive has sent out urgent cables to 73 members of the General Zionist Council…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Communist Plan to Seize Power in Italy Britain's Allegation to Security Council

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Communist plans to seize power in Italy were alleged by Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan after the Security Council yesterday heard the former Czechoslovakian delegate to the United Nations (Dr. Jan Papanek) openly accuse the Soviet of having engineered the recent…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Western Powers Boycott Berlin Control Council

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1

BERLIN, Wed. (A.A.P.): Britain and France have joined the United States in a boycott of committee meetings of the Four…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Petrol Tax and Council Road Works

Adelong and Tumut Express · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

An allocation of £160,000 had been made to councils from the proceeds of petrol tax this year for the first time, the Minister for Local…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Australian Country Party Riverina Electorate Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

The largest meeting of the Riverina Electorate Council of the Country Party to take place in Narandera for many years was held in the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Leeton Shire to Transfer to C'wealth Bank

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1948 · page 4

LEETON, Friday: The Leeton Shire Council will transfer its business from the Rural Bank to the Commonwealth Bank…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Farmer's £50 to Leeton Council for Road Work

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1948 · page 3

LEETON. Friday: A Murrami rice farmer who has waited twenty years to have the road to his property repaired by the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Shire Clerk Farewelled at Urana

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1948 · page 2

Mom than 100 friends of Mr. T. W. Young and family attended a banquet at Tirana to farewell the family before their…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

New Ground Rentals for Fisher Park Mayor Pleased

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 4

Last night the municipal council expressed Itself as being generally pleased with thE increased ground rental agreed upon by the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Town Council Local Industrial Expansion Problem

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 3

Aldermen D. Stratton (Mayor), R. Cohen, F. Dickson, M. Mutch, M. Meagher, H. Schofield, C. Williams, L. Conkey, and A…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Harden Council Employee Electrocuted

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1

Norman Bruce Diehm, an assistant linesman, employed by the Harden Municipal Council was electrocuted last week…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Leeton Shire Council Correspondence and Reports at Regular Meeting

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 4

THE regular meeting of the Leeton Shire Council was held on Thursday of last week, when the correspondence and officers'…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Our Open Column Tumut Shire Council and the Ratepayers' Money (To the Editor)

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 2

SIR,--Please allow me space in your valuable column to express my views in connection with the Tumut Shire Council, the management and the manner in…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Shire Clerk Farewelled at Urana

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 6

More than 100 friends of Mr. T. W. Young and family attended a banquet at Urana to farewell the family before their departure for Beachport…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Brisbane Labor Council Sec. Fined

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday: Michael Healy, Secretary of the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council was today fined £15 or six weeks'…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →