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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1888

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Notes in Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 February 1888 · page 1

THE municipal yacht, under command of her new skipper, hoisted a fore-top gallant-sail and skudded along before a lively breeze on Thursday night last. She looked trim and taut in…

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Bowral Municipal Council. Thursday, March 8, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 10 March 1888 · page 2

PRESENT: Aldermen Morris (Mayor), Murray, Hodgson, Farrow, Rice, Piggott, Griffiths, and Campbell. Minutes of previous meeting were read…

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Notes in Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 March 1888 · page 1

A FULL council, minus one, received the patronage of a crowded stangers' gallery on Thursday night last. "Is there to be any fun to-night?" queried one of tho free and…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Friday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursdays, 3 to…

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The Bowral free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Wednesday, March 21, 1888. Bowral Municipal Council. Friday, March 17, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 1

PRESENT: Aldermen Morris (Mayor), Newmarch, Hodgson, Campbell, Rice, Piggott, and Griffiths. This was a special meeting of the…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Friday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursdays, 3 to…

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Bowral Municipal Council. Thursday, March 22, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 2

PRESENT: Aldermen Hodgson, Murray, Campbell, Farrow, Piggott, and Griffiths. In the absence of the Mayor, Alderman Hodgson was voted to the chair…

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Open Letters. to Alderman J. G. Morris, Mayor of Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 1

My Dear Sir,—I take the liberty, a pardonable liberty I hope, of offering you a suggestion or two relative to the welfare of the Bowral public park. The few suggestions…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 1

MEETS ever alternate Friday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are; Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursdays 3 to…

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A Word to our Aldermen

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 2

"F.R.G.S." contributes an interesting letter in our issue of to-day on the probabilities of Bowral's future greatness. Some of our readers may be prophetic and sanguine enough to imagine such a happy…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 1

Meets every alternate Friday, at tho committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7 o'clock p.m. Clerk's ofiiec hours are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursdays, 3 to…

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Bowral Municipal Council. Thursday, April 5, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 2

PRESENT: Aldermen Morris (Mayor), Murray, Hodgson, Campbell, Farrow, Rice, Piggott, and Griffiths. Minutes of previous meeting were read…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 1

Meets every alternate Friday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are; Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursdays, 3 to…

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Bowral Municipal Council. Thursday, April 19, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 2

PRESENT: Aldermen Hodgson, Campbell, Farrow, Piggot, Griffiths, and Rice. In the absence of the Mayor, through illness, Alderman Hodgson was voted to the…

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Moss Vale Municipality. I

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 1

Following are the boundaries of the proposed Moss Vale municipality:—Commencing at the Bong Bong Bridge, on the Wingecarribee river; and thence down the…

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Sudden Death of the Mayor of Goulburn

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 April 1888 · page 1

MR. FRANCIS TAIT, Mayor of Goulbum, was seized with a fit of apoplexy last Saturday morning. He never recovered from the shook. It appears that he had not been…

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Rateable Property in the Bowral Municipality

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 April 1888 · page 1

THE following copy of tho valuators' report, submitted to the last meeting of the Bowral Municipal Council, will doubtless prove interesting to many of our readers:—"We…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Friday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hour's are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Thursdays, 3 to…

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The Proposed Moss Vale Municipality. the Boundaries Objected To

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 May 1888 · page 1

A PAELIMINARY meeting of landowners resident near Moss Vale was held at E[?]m Court on Monday last to consider what steps it would be desirable to take with regard to…

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Bowral Municipal Assessment

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 May 1888 · page 1

An assessment of 1s. in the £ having been made on all rateable property within the Municipality, an appeal court will be held at Mittagong on Monday, the 14th instant,…

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