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Southern Highlands · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1947

161 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 8 of 9

What Our Editor Thinks Council Elections

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 2

MANY ELECTORS have agitated for candidates at the forthcoming municipal and shire elections to address the public in support of their…

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Land at Hill Top Council in Strange Position

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 November 1947 · page 7

Nattai Shire Council is in a peculiar position regarding land at Hill Top on which rates have been overdue for some years. These blocks are…

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Voting Wilt Be Compulory Council Elections

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 November 1947 · page 2

Voting at Council elections on 6th December will be compulsory for all electors, whether resident in the area or not The bill originally provided…

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More Federal Power Opposed C.P. Central Council View on Price Control Referendum

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 November 1947 · page 4

The Central Council of the Country Party, at its meeting, just concluded in Sydney, declared itself against a farther…

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Year of Progress Mayor Reports to Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 5

At last meeting of Bowral Council, a mayoral minute covering the activities of the Council during the…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 4

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

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Work of Ald. Foley Praised Mayor Retires

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 8

At last meeting of Bowral Council, which was the last of the present Council, the aldermen took opportunity to express appreciation to the…

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Council Elections Voting To-morrow Is Compulsory

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 2

Voting at the municipal and thin elections to-morrow (Saturday) ia compulsory, and persons on the municipal and shire rolls who do not vote…

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The Mail What Our Editor Thinks Progressive Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 2

IT IS TO BE HOPED that the incoming Bowral Council, which will be elected to-morrow (Saturday), will continue the progress made…

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Ald. Venables is Mayor of Bowral No Opposition

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 December 1947 · page 2

A special meeting of Bowral Council was held on Wednesday night to fix the mayoral allowance and to elect the Mayor…

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Council Elections Results of Poll

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 December 1947 · page 6

The nutter of whether persons who failed to vole at Council elections on Saturday should be prosecuted or not is left to the various…

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Nattai Shire Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 6

Two mutters which the Shire Clerk (Mr. J. Morgan) classed as urgent were dealt with at the special meeting of Nattai Shire Council on…

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General Rate Increased Nattai Shire Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 3

At a meeting held by Nattni Shire Council on Friday to deal with the estimates, it was decided to increase the general rate from 3td to 4d. The…

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Compulsory Voting Shire Clerk Reports to Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 4

In a report to the special meeting of Nattai Shire Council on Friday, the Shire Clerk (Mr. J. Morgan) reported that 1945 electors had failed…

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Cr. Jurd Again President Nattai Shire Meets

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 5

A special meeting of Nattai Shire Council was held on Friday afternoon for the purpose of fixing the presidential allowance and electing a…

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No Vehicle for Overseer Discussion in Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 2

At the meeting of Nattai Shire Council on Friday, when the estimates were submitted, the Shire Clerk (Mr. J. Morgan) said the car…

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Shire Engineer's Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 December 1947 · page 2

The following report was presented to Monday's meeting of the Wingecarribee Shire Council by the Engineer (Mr. W. C. Johnson):…

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Nattai Shire Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 8

Present: The full Council; the President (Cr. I. L. Jurd) in the chair. Cr. Toohey said that the portion of Centennial Road, Bowral, in the…

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Bowral Council

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 2

A special meeting of Bowral Council was held on 17th December. Present: The Yull Council with the exception of Ald. Blacket, from whom…

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Roads Damaged by Heavy Rains Problem for Nattai Shire

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 6

The effect of the recent heavy rain in the Berrima district was felt at last meeting of Nattai Shire Council, when there were many requests for…

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