R.S.L. District Council Meets Resolutions for State Congress
The annual meeting of the Southern Highlands District Council of the Returned Servicemen's League, was held in the All Services Club,…
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Council & local affairs, 1950
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Council Rates Farmers Hold Protest Meeting
Resolutions from a number of branches of the pnm[?] producers' Union have reached the N. S. W. Exco[?] protesting against the high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mittagong Council to Receive Grant
Mr. Blake Pelly, M.L.A., [?] us that he has received word from the Minister for Local Government that a gram of £150 for blackberry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Council WEDNESDAY, 14th JUNE
Present: The full council. A letter was received from "Gra[?]burn" Pty. Ltd., objecting to the proposal of council to establish a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Exemptions From Rating Local Council Makes Move for Repeal
Local Governing bodies have been concerned for some years at the loss of revenue retailing from the exempting from rating of various properties…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mittagong Council 16th JUNE, 1950
Present: The President (Cr. Jurd), and Crs. Alcorn, Bradman, Metcalfe, Rouse, Toohey and Wills. The President made fitting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal Library Bendooley Street
RATEPAYERS. residents, or persons regularly employed in Bowral are invited to join their Municipal [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Council 28th JUNE, 1950
The Postmaster General's Department wrote that council's request for the provision of public telephone booths in Bowral would receive…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No Time For Council Meetings Wingecarribee Shire Councillor Resigns
There was a sensation at last meeting of Wingecarribee Shire Council when after a motion had been carried that it be adjourned, Cr. A. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowral Council WEDNESDAY, 12th JULY
Present: The Mayor and Aldermen Blacket, H. and J. Campbell, Hardy, Springett and Price. The Department of Local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mittagong Council FRIDAY, 21st JULY Present: The full council
The recommendation of the finance I committee that application bo made to the Underwriters Association for a reduction in fire insurance premiums…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roads and Their Construction Shire Engineer Gives Interesting Details
At last meeting: of Mittagong Shire Council an interesting document prepared by the engineer (Mr. K. Gibson) was submitted for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council Cannot Repair Roads Heavy Lorries Make Matters Worse
At the meeting of the Shire Council on Friday, the engineer (Mr. K. Gibson) said it was impossible in most cases to carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Council WEDNESDAY. 26th JULY
The Department of Works recommended that tie first progress payment of £595 be paid to the contnctor for the new water resevoir and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mittagong Council FRIDAY, 21st JULY
A lengthy letter was received requesting that unused roads within boundaries of a property at Braemar recently acquired by the M.U.I.O.O.F…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Council WEDNESDAY, 9th AUGUST
The Department of Local Government wrote that the necessary notices had been published in the Government Gazette and local newspapers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Suspension of Council Employee Open Inquiry Conducted at Bowral
An open inquiry was conducted by Mr. K. G. H. Hawkshaw, Inspector of Local Governments Accounts, on Friday, in Bowral Council Chambers into the suspension by Bowral Council, as from 7th July, 1950, of Mr. Mona Estelle Gold, a clerk in its employ. Appointed by the State Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Council of R.S.L. Meeting at Burrawang
The quarterly meeting of the Southern Highlands Sub District, Council of the Returned Service-man's League was held in Burrawang…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Financing Road Works is Hopeless Mittagong Shire Council Receives One-fifth of Money Required Each Year
The hopeless position in which councils are place with regard to the financing of road works, was shown in a report submitted by the engineer (Mr. K. Gibson) to the meeting of Mittagong Shire Council on Friday. It showed that the estimated cost of maintaining and reconstructing existing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tree Planting at Mittagong Generous Donation of Shire Councillor
On Saturday afternoon, the majority of residents in Bowral Road, Mittagrong, co-operated with Mittagong Shire Council in planting along…
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