ERMINGTON & Rydalmere Council. Purchase of School of Arts Building
The Council meton Wednesday. Present : The Mayor (Alderman Jenkins), Aldermen Mobbs and Humphries. Correspondence was read…
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Council & local affairs, 1898
3,529 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 177
Parramatta Council. The Water Rate and Government Properties—The New By.Laws. -Making the Assessment
The Council met on Monday. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Moxham), Aldermen Noller, Dixon, Campbell, Withers, Taylor, Saunders, Allen and Johnstone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Municipal Matters. the Question of Insurance
The large sums for which some of the municipal buildings axe insured has been engaging the attention of the Mayor for some little time, and from what he has been able to gather, he is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Matters. Five Dock Finances
Five Dock council has been struggling along for a long time with its finances dangerously near vanishing point. Creditors have come and come again with their little bills; changes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Action Against a Municipality. Langford V. the Borough of Mosman
The hearing of the action brought by Mary Priscilla Langford for the recovery of £500 damages for injury said to have been done to her premises owing to alleged wrongful construction of street drains was continued in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Municipal. Cabramatta and Canley Vale
AT the last meeting of the above council, the Mayor (Alderman Asimus) presiding, a letter was received from the Rev. J. O'Conor, drawing attention to the dangerous condition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Rotten Corporation Cleansing the Stables. Alderman Buckle's Position. Some Stormy Scenes
DURING the past week the City Council, sitting as a Committee of Inquiry, has made a lot of progress in its task of inquiring into the work of the Council and its officers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of Sir Arthur Palmer. President of the Queensland Legislative Council
BRISBANE, Saturday.--Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer, K.C.M.G., President of the Legislative Council, died at 8 o'clock this morning. His death was not altogether unexpected. He had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Councils. Ashfield
At the last meeting of the above council the following were present:—The Mayor (Alderman F. J. Josephson, J.P.) and Aldermen Mills. Dougan, Robson, Upward. Brown, Beaver, and Broughton. Alderman Upward…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Leichhardt Council. an Alderman's Resignation
At last evening's meeting of the Leichhardt Council, Alderman Troup asked leave to give an explanation of his attendance that night after having given notice (verbally) at the previous meeting of his intention to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Town Hall Inquiry. Monday's Sitting. Aldermen Required to Give Evidence
Upon the resumption of the sitting of the Town Hall inquiry committee yesterday afternoon, Alderman Norton asked the Mayor whether, as a matter of courtesy to the council,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woollahra Council Inquiry
At a meeting of the Woollahra Council last week it was resolved that a committee should be appointed to inquire into and report upon the work and duties of the permanent officers and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →City Council Insurances
Yesterday the Mayor (Alderman Harris, M.L.A.) had a conversation with Mr. W. D. Bear, superintendent of fire brigades, with regard to the differen[?] insurances on the buildings belonging to the City…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal Fire Insurances
The Mayor (Alderman M. Harris) had an interview yesterday with Superintendent Bear on the question of municipal fire insurance, as a result…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Action Against a Municipality. Langford V. the Borough of Mosman
The hearing of the action brought by Mary Priscilla Langford against the borough of Mosman to recover £500 damages for injury said to have been done to her premises by the alleged wrongful construction of street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal Insurances
The Mayor, Alderman M. Harris, has consulted Superintendent Bear, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, on the subject of insurances on municipal building, brought up at last meeting. They…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Municipal Retrenchment
Alderman M. Harris, the Mayor, has received several reports from the heads of his municipal departments as to the possibility of further retrenchment. He has net yet gone through them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divided Municipal Rule
To-day the annual elections in connection with the Fire Brigades Board, the Transit Commission, and the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage take place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alderman Troup Explains
At a meeting of the Leichhardt Municipal Council on Monday evening Alderman Troup called the attention of those present to the fact that at a previous meeting of that body…
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