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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1935

210 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 11

Avoiding Awards Does Bowral Council Sweat Employees?

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 2

At last meeting of Bowral Council, the Mayor (Aid. Venables) said the Council was deliberately evading the awards by employing two…

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Abbatoirs Proposed Mittagong Council and Meat Inspection. Central Abbatoirs Suggested

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 3

At the meeting of Mittagong Council on Tuesday night, a letter was received from Wingecarribee Shire Council stating that at a…

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Work on Shire Roads

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 May 1935 · page 2

At Monday's meeting of the Shire Council on Monday, the Engineer reported:— General maintenance, so far as…

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22 Gangs on Relief Work in Wingecarribee Shire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 May 1935 · page 2

Under the scheme of work in lieu of food relief there are at present no less than twenty two gangs besides a number of isolated men,…

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Works Under the Relief Council

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 May 1935 · page 2

On the 10th and 11th April (says the Engineer) I accompanied an officer on an inspection of propositions for work to be carried out under…

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Ignored Traffic Cop Alderman Wants It Removed

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

After cesaseless agitation by ex-Ald, Mowle in the lass Bowral Council, a traffic dome was at the request of the Council, placed at the…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

A letter [?] Council asking that the Government be appres[?] ailewance for enemy [?] was to the…

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Mittagong Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 4

Present: The Mayor (Aid. Browne)and Aid. Downs. Helson, Solomons, Stevenson and Terry. The action of the Mayor in…

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Bowral Unemployed Working in Shire

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

At a meeting of Bowral Council on Thursday night. Ald. Crabtree said fifty per cent, of the unemployed men in the Municipality were…

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Council's Employees More Delay

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

At the meeting of Bowral Council on Thursday [?] Local Government Association [?] wrote that the facts refusting the salaries paid to…

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Shire Council

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 3

At last meeting of Wingecarribee Shire Council, Bowral Council wrote that it was opposed to the suggested system of meat inspection…

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Avoca Electricity Scheme Before Shire Council

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 2

At last meeting of Wingecarribee Shire. the Electrical Engineer (Mr. Davison.) submitted a report on a proposal to extend the electricity…

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Bowral Unemployed Not Gutter Cleaning in Shire

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 3

At last meeting of Bowral Council, Aid. Crabtree slated that many of the unemployed of Bowral were doing gutter cleaning in the Nattai…

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Australian Agricultural Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 10 May 1935 · page 3

As a sequel to all the spadework done by the conferences mentioned in the foregoing, the Australian I cultural Council will meet this month…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 3

Present: The Mayor (Ald. Venables) and Ald. Boardman, Briggs, Bennett, Cratree, Pickles and Schomberg…

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Awards Broken Council to Pay Back Salaries

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 2

At Bowral Council meeting on Thursday night, it was unanimusly decided after a letter had been read from the Local Government Solicitor,…

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Traffic Dome Council Asks for Its Removal

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 2

At last meeting of Bowral Council. Aid Pickles moved on notice that the Police Department be asked to remove the traffic dome from the…

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Mittagong Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 2

Present: The Deputy Mayor (Aid. Terry) and Aid. Helson, McDonald, McFarlane. Solomons and Stevenson…

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Shire Council Matters

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 May 1935 · page 2

Excepting the road Burra wang to the railway siding approval has not yet been received to proceed with the…

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