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Riverina · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1949

1,508 stories in Riverina's papers · page 48 of 76

Yanco Agricultural High School Meeting of School Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 3

A meeting of members of the Y.A.H.S. Council was held at the School on Sunday afternoon last…

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Cootamundra Municipal Library This Week's New Books

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2

"Try Anything Twice," by Peter Cheyney. That Feter Cheyney's stories have attained a world-wide…

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Mayor Lends a Hand

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 1

FIRST ARRIVAL, 12-months-old Ann Odermatt, bad special attention from the Mayor of Coburg (Cr. S. Cole) and Sister Mavis Cannon at the opening of the new baby health centre on the Newlands housing estate, Northeast Coburg…

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Mitchell Shire to Enforce Weed Control

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 4

Ratepayers in "C" Riding of the Mitchell Shire will be sent notices to destroy and keep under control noxious plants. This was stated, on the recommendation of the…

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Kyeamba Shire Road and Bridgework Costs Exceed Estimates

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 3

Estimated costs of bridge and road-building works in the Kyeamba Shire have been exceeded by several hundred pounds, due to the increased costs. THIS was stated yesterday by…

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Labor Electorate Council Meeting at Culcairn

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 5

CULCAIRN, Wednesday: At a meeting of the Farrar Federal. Electorate Council of the Australan Labor Party, held In'…

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Beautifying the Tucker Box Site Well to be Sunk by Shire

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

At the Gundagai council meeting the President, Cr. Stan Glasscock, stated that an inspection was recently made of…

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New Grader for Gundagai Shire. Will be on the Road Within a Week

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

One of the two new Road-master graders on order is due to arrive during the next few days, and should be on the…

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Municipal Council Engineer's Report

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1

At the last medium of the Municipal Council, The Engineer (Mr. J. Harrison) reported as follows:…

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Town Council

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 4

Present at last night's meeting were Aldermen F. Dickson (Mayor), R. Cohen, M. Mutch, M. Meagher, H. Schofteldi C…

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Urana Shire Demand for Used Graders

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1

There was a full attendance of councillors at Tuesday's meeting of the Urana Shire Council, viz. Crs. A. R. Townsend (president), J. M…

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Town Council Disallows Petition Chief Secretary's Regulation Quoted

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 2

The Cootamundra Municipal Council decided last night, not to act upon a petition entered by the Rugby League Football…

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Bowling Greens Suggested For Dooley Park Deputation to Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1

A deputation waited on the Leeton Shire Council on Thursday night with a request that consideration be given to the…

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Cootamundra Council Seeks Cut From Road Money "Why Shires Only?" Asks Ald. Mutch

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 3

The Cootamundra Town Council will urge at the next Local Government conference that municipal councils be…

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Wagga City Area Must be Extended, Witnesses Claim Council Envisages Wide Industrial Developments

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 2

In the opinion of witnesses for the Wagga City Council, the present boundaries of Wagga must be extended to provide for the future industrial and town-planning developments envisaged by the Council…

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Waste Water to Be Taken to Park Arrangements Finalised by Municipal Council

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 3

The Municipal Council last night agreed to pay the Railway Department £250 as its proportion of the cost of taking waste water…

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Carl Damaged In Collision With Council Truck

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 5

When one of Mr. E. C. Benbow's bakery carts and a Municipal Council lorry, driven by Mr. C. Millard, came into collision near…

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Council May Takeover Wallendbeen Power Assets Valued at £9650

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2

The Cootamundra Municipal Council may purchase from the Public Works Department through the Northern Riverina…

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Increase Urged in Electricity Charges County Council Defers Decision

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2

A meeting of the Southern Riverina County Council yesterday received a recommendation from the county clerk (Mr. H. B. Moyle) that the average cost of electricity tales to consumers should be increased by 3/ in the £…

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Cootamundra Council Says Bell on Special Work "No Reversal of Policy"

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2

The Cootamundra Council will inform the Returned Soldiers' League that Mr. J. Bell had been engaged in a…

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