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South Coast · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1949

193 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 10

Council Mems

The South Coast Register · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

Sympathy of his colleagues at the Shoalhaven Shire Council meeting, last night, was passed to Cr. Dowling whose wife…

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Old Council Chambers Progress Association Agrees to Close It

The South Coast Register · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 4

The Berry Progress Association, on Monday night, decided to offer no objection to the closing of the old council…

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Council Loses Staff Worry Over Clerk Shortage

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 4

Bega Municipal Council is again having staff worries, having lost a senior and junior clerk lately. At the moment Mr. Laws, Town…

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Street Parking of Large Vehicles Criticism by Bega Council

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

Bega Municipal Council has declared the area in front of the new office premises in Auckland Street of Messrs Hayes and Kydd Pty Ltd…

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Change In Parking Signs Sought Bega Council Makes Application

The Bega District News · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 4

Bega Municipal Council is pressing the Department of Road Transport and Tramways to have the Carp Street parking signs altered to indicate that a limit of forty minutes is allowed, is the information submtted by the Town Clerk…

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Roadside Blackberries Worry Imlay Shire Request Comes In For Attention

The Bega District News · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 4

“It wouldn’t hurt landholders to clean rabbits out of the area just outside their fences. Any man who has to ask Council to clean rabbits away from an adjoining road is a pretty poor rabbit hunter.”…

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Towamba Valley Electricity Survey Help to Be Given to County Council Engineers

The Bega District News · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 9

The residents of the Towamba Valley are pleased to learn that the engineers of the Bega Valley County Council will soon be making an inspection of the…

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Gas to Bomaderry Shire Council Approves. £12,000 SCHEME

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 2

“That the extension of the gas restriculation to Bomaderry, as submitted by the gas engineer, be carried out at an estimated cost…

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Good Shire Roadwork

The Bega District News · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 9

The surface of the Bega-Bermagui road, from Tanja to Bermagui, recently repaired by the Mumbulla Shire road, gangs, and planned by…

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Council Mems

The South Coast Register · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 1

At the Shoalhaven Shire Council meeting last week, Percy Rixon and others drew attention to the bad state of…

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Gerringong Council Mayor’s Minute

The South Coast Register · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 1

Following council’s last meeting, reported the Mayor (Ald H. G. Miller) at the Gerringong Council meeting, the opportunity was…

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Gerroa-Berry Road Decision of Council

The South Coast Register · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 4

In our issue of Thursday last we published a copy of the report of the Shoalhaven Shire Engineer. Mr. Dee, concerning a…

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Gerringong Council Electrical Engineer’s Report

The South Coast Register · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 1

The electrical engineer (Mr. Dodd) submitted the following report to the last meeting of the Gerringong Council:—…

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Junior Farmer Trophy. District Council Considers Contest

The Bega District News · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

The Far South Coast District Council of Junior Farmer Clubs with Mr. A. F. Dowie, chairman, and delegetes from Kameruka, Toothdale,…

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Changes in Council Staff Engineer Resigns, Leaves Bega

The Bega District News · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 2

The Bega Municipal Council has appointed Mr. A. G. Plumb, gardener, as Mr. Plumb' applied for his transfer from council's grader to this…

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Council Mems

The South Coast Register · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 1

Cleary Bros. made a most attractive offer to the the Shoalhaven Shire Council, to construct the council’s portion of Beach Road,…

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Straight Talk Shire Councillors Discuss Jervis Bay Road

The South Coast Register · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 4

“It simply had to come, and I am glad of the straight talk,” was the comment of the President of the Shoalhaven Shire, Cr…

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Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council Executive Officers Re- Elected at Berry’s Annual Meeting

The South Coast Register · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 2

A feature of the annual meeting of the Berry branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council held on Monday night last, was…

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Youth Council President Resigns Towamba Valley Activities Are Varied

The Bega District News · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 7

The resignation of the president of the Towamba Valley Youth Council was received with regret at the last meeting. Wynne Umback, of…

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“Blackberry Greatest Menace” A.p.p.u. Wants County. Council Control

The Bega District News · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 7

I regard the blackberry as the number one enemy in the Far South Coast, and.an enemy that will finally drive. every farmer off his farm if…

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