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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1889

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 1

MEETS overy alternate Thursday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7.30 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are; Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Fridays, 8 to…

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The Municipal List

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 1

RATEPAYERS are reminded that the Moss Vale and Bowral Municipal lists will be open for inspection until the 14th instant. Those who value their vote at the forthcoming…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Thursday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7.30 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Fridays, 3 to…

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Bowral Municipal Council. Thursday, January 10, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 2

USUAL fortnightly meeting. Present: The Mayor. Aldermen Fleming, Hodgson, Campbell, Farrow, Rice, Griffiths, and Murray. Minutes of previous meeting were read,…

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At Moss Vale Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 2

EIGHT Aldermen toed the mark punctually at 7 p.m. on Tuesday last. The Mayor read the minutes and the correspondence, and while engaged in this intellectual…

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The Moss Vale Municipal Assessment

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 2

THOSE aldermen (one particularly) who had extravagant ideas of the amount of rates that would accrue in the Moss Vale Municipality, must be disappointed. The annual…

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Municipal Elections

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 2

THE Mayor (Alderman Morris), Alderman Campbell, and Alderman Murray will retire by effluxion of time at the end of the present municipal year—the first Tuesday in February…

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Municipal Candidates

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 1

THE following speech has been handed to us fur publication, with the hope that the owner may claim it before nomination day. It is alleged that it was picked up by the…

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Municipal Elections

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 1

MUNICIPAL agitators are buckling on their armour for the forthcoming municipal encounter, and for the three seats vacant there are to be, so it is said, six candidates. These…

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Moss Vale Municipality

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 1

ALDERMAN Wiles, Houston, and Coleman are the retiring aldermen at Moss Vale, and each will be nominated for re-election. Opposition is spoken of, but yet there is not…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Thursday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7.30 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours arc: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Fridays, 3 to…

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Retirement of the Mayor

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 2

WE were informed yesterday afternoon on rel.able authority that the Mayor, Aldermen J. G. Morris, does not intend seeking re-election to 'be con cil…

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A Very Lively Council Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 1

THE Cumberland Argus gives the following report of a remarkably disordenly meeting of the Sherwood Municipal Council:- After preliminary business had been…

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At Moss Vale Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 1

ALDERMAN P. H. Throsby was absent on Monday night last, and the remaining nine Alder[?]n en took their scats shortly after 7 p.m., with the newly appointed…

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The Municipal Elections

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 1

The excitement of the parliamentary election is lessening the interest in the forthcoming municipal election. For Bowral no candidates are spoken of…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Thursday, at the committeeroom of the school of arts, at 7.30 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.; Fridays, 3 to…

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Bowral Municipal Council. Thursday, January 24, 1888

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 2

PRESENT: Alderman Hodgson (voted to the chair) Fleming, Campbell, Rice, Piggott, and Griffiths. A letter was received from the Mayor stating that he was too unwell to…

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Bowral Municipal Council

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 1

MEETS every alternate Thursday, at the committeeroom of the sohool of arts, at 7.30 o'clock p.m. Clerk's office hours are: Tuesdays, from 10 to 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m.: Fridays, 3 to…

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The Municipal Nominations

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 2

TUESDAY NEXT, the 5th instant, is Nomination Day, when the candidates who have been nominated for the vacant seats in the Moss Vale and the Buwral councils will be…

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Municipal Nominations

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 February 1889 · page 1

THE nomination of Municipal candidates took place yesterday, at the council chambers. There were about 25 persons present. The Mayoracted in the capacity of Returning…

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