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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1947

161 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 9

County Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

IN SEPTEMBER 1946 the Electrical Engineer to Bowral Municipal and Nattai Shire Councils (Mr. A. J. Mead)…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 5

Present: The Mayor (Ald. Foley) and Aldermen Burchell, Campbell, de Jersey, Hardy, Osborne, Springett and Venables, An apology was…

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County Council Meeting at Moss Vale

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 7

A meeting of representatives of the Bowral Municipal, and Nattai and Wingecarribee Shire Councils was held at Moss Vale last week to…

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County Council The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

Sir.—The proposal to form a Country Council for electricity in the Berrima district has, not surprisingly, met with much opposition; but that…

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Council Will Not Close Street Application for Carnival

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

At last meeting of Bowral Council, Rev. J. E. Munday, President of the St. Thomas's Youth Organisation, wrote asking that portion of…

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Bus from Bowral to South Coast Council Changes Its Mind

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

At last meeting of Bowral Council Mr. L. P. Barton, who had been refused permission at the previous meeting to conduct a bus service…

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County Council The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 4

Sir,—If Alderman Campbell hopes through some gibe to involve me in a public controversy over the proposed County Council, he is mistaken. I am…

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Sleepless Nights Must Continue Council Has No Powers to Control Traffic

The Southern Mail · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 2

At the meeting of Nattai Shirt Council on Friday the Shire Clerk (Mr. J. Morgan) said Council had no power to prevent heavy traffic from…

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Council Rejects House Building Plan

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 2

The Wingscarribe[?] Shire Council will not follow the Government's recommendation to councils to engage in building projects…

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New Ridings for Nattai Shire Council Will Lodge Protest

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 4

It was announced recently in the Government Gazette that Nattai Shire had been re-constituted aft three ridings. A special meeting of…

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Clash at Council Meeting Ald. Venables Says the Mayor Was a Dictator

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 3

During the discussion at the meeting of Bowral Council on Wednesday night there was a brush between Aid. Venable, and the Mayor (Aid…

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Bowral Council Present: The full Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 2

The Department of Local Government wrote that it was the policy of the Government to encourage the use of cement concrete tiles. An…

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County Council for Electricity Bowral Council Will Support Proposal

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 7

At last meeting of Bowral Council it was unanimously decided to give every support to the formation of a matter was raised by the Town Clerk…

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The County Council The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 July 1947 · page 7

Sir,—I regret that in my recent letter on the proposed Electricity County Council I somewhat bluntly characterised one of President Jurd's…

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Shire Engineer's Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 July 1947 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Win gecarribee Shire Council, the Engineer (Mr. W. C. Johnson) submitted the following report:—…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 3

Present: The Mayor (Ald. Foley) and Aldermen Blacket, Campbell, Hardy, de Jersey, end Osborne. An apology was received from Ald…

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County Council Debate

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 2

IT IS A PITY that more publicity was not given to the debate held at Mittagong on the proposed county council to…

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Proposed County Council Interesting Debate at Mittagong

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 6

There was an attendance of a little over seventy people in the School of Arts, Mittagong, on Monday night when a debate was held on the subject of the proposed county council for electricity on the Southern Highlands. It was arranged by…

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High School Bus Service Council in Quandary

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 3

Bowral aldermen were in a quandary at last meeting when the Berrima District Bus Service wrote that with the approval of the Department…

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Housing Scheme for Bowral Council to Consider Proposal

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 2

At the meeting of Bowra1 Council on Wednesday night it was decided to consider the institution of a municipal housing scheme in conjunction…

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