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South Coast · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1954

110 stories in South Coast's papers · page 5 of 6

Street Sealing Activity In Municipality

The Bega District News · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 6

The Bega Municipal Council's street sealing operations have resulted in tar surfacing to Canning Street, Hill Street from Auckland Street to Peden Street, Upper Street from…

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Mayor At L.G. Conference

The Bega District News · Tuesday 19 October 1954 · page 1

The Mayor of Bega (Aid Chas Ayres) is at present in Tamworth, attending the 1954 conference of the N.S.W Local Government…

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Inspection of Shire Dairies

The Bega District News · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

The officer from the Department of Public Health who visited a number of dairies in the Mumbulla Shire, in company with the Health Inspector (Mr. I. A. F. Dunn) signified his…

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County Council Encourages Irrigation Installations

The Bega District News · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 2

Feeling that irrigation is something that can do much to improve the prosperity of the area m which it operates, the Bega Valley County Council recently resolved to encourage…

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Bega Is Proud Of Its C.W.A. Says The Mayor

The Bega District News · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 7

The Bega citizens are very proud of their branch of the C.W.A., and I can only speak in the most glowing terms of what the branch does for this community, declared Ald. Chas. Ayres,…

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Shire Seeks New Service For Bemboke

The Bega District News · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 5

Feeling that a sanitary service for Bemboka would be too costly for the community, the Mumbulla Shire Council is investigating a new type of septic closet, used extensively in Victoria,…

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Bega Valley County Council's Planning

The Bega District News · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 6

This sectional drawing shows the Brown Mountain hydro-electric development envisaged by the Bega Valley Counts-Council. The entire creek system in the mountains is shown and It can be seen where additional pipelines can be added to the present Rutherford…

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Bega M. Council Unable To Raise Loans For Local Works

The Bega District News · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 7

Unable to raise loan monies with which to carry on certain works which are considered urgent, the Bega Municipal Council will fully explore the possibility of raising the loans…

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Minister Wants More Open Council In L.G.

The Bega District News · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 1

In reply to "a Country Press deputation lasts week, the Minister for Local Government (Mr. B. Renshaw) said that local government business should be transacted in the open,…

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Council Awake To Us Needs

The Bega District News · Friday 19 November 1954 · page 2

Bega Municipal Council, by majority vote, is hardening in its attitude towards continued delay in really getting down to…

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Bega Council Wants Loan Money Plain Talk Follows Lack Of Progress

The Bega District News · Friday 19 November 1954 · page 1

The inability of the Bega Municipal Council to raise loan money for local projects has been causing some caustic comment by aldermen of late, and at Tuesday night's meeting, there was…

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Council Should Not Relax

The Bega District News · Tuesday 23 November 1954 · page 2

With the Bega Municipal Council 50 desperately in need of loan money, it seems little short of the miraculous that Mr…

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Labor Council's In Allan Fraser

The Bega District News · Tuesday 23 November 1954 · page 4

A motion expressing full confidence in Mr. Allan Fraser, M. H. R., and endorsing his attitude towards recent events in the Labor Party, Was carried unanimously at a well-attended…

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Bega Council To Get Offer Of Loan Money

The Bega District News · Tuesday 23 November 1954 · page 2

Mr. W. G. Laws, Town Clerk o£ Bega, has been informed by Mr. Jack G. Beale, M. L. A., Member "for South Coast, that a loan of £15,000 would be offered to Bega Municipal…

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School Children Visit Shire Meeting

The Bega District News · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 11

Increasing interest is being [?]aken in Local Government by [?]he school children of the Far South Coast in the coarse of…

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Ferguson Circus Impressed Imlay Council

The Bega District News · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 1

The demonstration given by the Ferguson “Circus” during its recent visit to the Far South Coast, greatly impressed a…

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Council will Ask About Plans For Town Hall

The Bega District News · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 7

At the instigation of Ald. L.A. Bishop, the Bega Municipal Council will ask its consultants, Messrs. Lightfoot and Stanton, what progress has been made with the preparation of…

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County Council Is Short of Surveyors

The Bega District News · Tuesday 30 November 1954 · page 4

The inability of the Bega Valley County Council to obtain the services of additional surveyors to expedite work on rural…

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Gas Manager’s Cottage Has Put Council In A Quandary

The Bega District News · Tuesday 30 November 1954 · page 6

With a number of aldermen doubting if it would be an economic proposition to try to repair the old cottage at the Bega Gas Works, the Bega Municipal Council has decided to…

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Protest to Council on Water Failure At Hospital Worries Board

The Bega District News · Friday 3 December 1954 · page 1

After water storage at the Bega District Hospital had been at a perilously low level for two days this week, the Board has resolved to protest emphatically to the Bega Municipal…

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