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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1937

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What Our Editor Thinks Election of Mayor

The Southern Mail · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 1

BOWRAL is without a Council, owing to dissension over the election of Mayor. Waterloo has made three attempts to…

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Shire Road Vote. Engineer Needed £9,000. £6,000 GRANTED

The Southern Mail · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 3

The recommendation of the Shire Engineer that £9,000 be spent on roadwork in 1987 caused a long debate in Wingecarribee Council on…

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Wingecarribee Shire Council Engineer's Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 2

At the January, meeting of. the Shire Council, the Shire Engineer (Mr. Lennard reported as follows: Hume Highway—In accordance…

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Mittagong Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

Present: The Mayor (Ald. Nelson) and Ald. Downs, Helson, McFarlane, Stevenson and Worner. Mr. Mark Morton, M.L.A., wrote…

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Primary Producers' Union Notes (Issued by authority of the Central Executive Council) Sydney, 4th Jan., 1937. Dear Food. Tax of Speculator on Australia. Political Position

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 4

A vote against the referendum is in effect an act of outlawry, depriving the producer and retailer of the benefits of legal protection for this…

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Proposed Shire Works

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 4

The following works were proposed to Mr. Spooner, Minister for Works and Local Government, by the Shire…

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Suggestion Turned Down Mulware Shire Not Entertaining Wingecarribee Ideas

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 4

Suggestions put forward by the Wingecarribee Shire Council relative to the proposed extension of electricity to electricity to…

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Another Rate To Be Struck Council Carries Cr. Anderson's Motion

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 4

Councillors who voted for this rate being struck would go out of office so fast that they would burn their tracks,…

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Doings of the Shire

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 2

THERE are many ways of improving a town without having recourse to raising money and placing the…

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Primary Producers' Union Notes (Issued by authority of the Central Executive Council). Sydney, 11th Jan., 1937. REFERENDUM

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 4

Further stops have been token since the holidays by the Primary Producers Union in preparation for the forthcoming campaign in support of…

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Municipal Election. Record Poll Taken

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 2

The extraordinary by-election to fill five vacancies in the Bowral Municipal Council caused by the resignation of Aid. Baker, Briggs…

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Alderman Venables. Re-elected Mayor of Bowral

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

At a special meeting of Bowral, Council on Wednesday night Ald. H. F. Venables, who was Mayor in the Previous Council prior to tendering…

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Mittagong Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

Present: The Mayor (Ald. Nelson) and Ald. Downa, Helson, McDonald and Stevenson. Fixing the Rates…

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Primary Producers Union Notes (Issued by authority of the Central Executive Council). Sydney, 19th Jan, 1937. Ready for Victory Referendum Campaign

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 4

Daring the pant week the Executives Officers of the P.P. Union held a meeting at Head Office at which final arrangements were made for the…

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Bowral Council. New Council Gets to Business

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 2

Following the meeting of Bowral Council called for the election of Mayor on Wednesday night, a general meeting of the Council was held…

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Council and School of Arts. Committee Unwilling to Proceed. New Council to Inquire Into Position

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 2

At its first meeting the newly created Bowral Council was confronted with the proposal to take over the School of Arts…

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Council and School of Arts Committee Unwilling to Proceed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 2

At its first meeting, the newly created Bowral Council was confronted with the proposal' to take over the School of Arts, (says the…

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Shire Councilors Liable

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 4

Councillors of the Coreen Shire (Corowa) have decided not to proceed with the diph theria immunisation scheme…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 2

Present: The full Council, the Mayor (Aid. Venables) in the chair. Same Old Evasion. The Postmaster-General's…

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Mittagong Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

Present: The Mayor (Aid. Nelson), and Aid. Downs, Shimmels, Stevenson, Terry and Worner. Repair of Mary Street…

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