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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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A test case with regard to the validity of the principle or arriving at the annual value of property by adding to the actual rental paid the municipal rates chargeable, in cases where the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At Thursday's meeting of the Redfern Council a letter was read from Alderman Griffin (Water and Sewerage Board) calling attention to a paragraph in "The Daily Telegraph," of April 12, in which he bad appeared as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the last meeting of the Hurstville Progress Association, the following resolution was carried unanimously; -- "That this association take into consideration the many defects in the present Municipalities Act, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The question of the disposal of garbage has now become a serious one to all suburban municipalities. For many years the practice has been to place it on lowlying lands, sometimes covering it over and sometimes…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The following letter has been forwarded by the Mayor of Molbourne to the Mayor of Adelaide:—"Dear Mr. Mayor,— I am in receipt of your telegram as under; ' Have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE cup of public patience with the Sydney City Council is about fulL The latest proceedings of that body aud the disclosures concerning it would have been too much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A representative meeting was held at the Hotel Australia yesterday in support of the movement to urge upon the imperial Government the desirability of amending the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Residents of marine suburbs have been protesting against the system of sending the city's garbage out to sea in punts, to be swept back by malignant currents and carefully deposited on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting of the general purposes committee of the City Council was held yesterday under the presidency of Alderman M. Chapman. Thoro were present: Aldermen M'Elhone, Norton,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Almost every day furnishes new proofs of the incapacity of the City Council to discharge even its most important duties. The latest revelation of this kind is that of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The general purposes committee of the City Council met again on Wednesday afternoon. In the absence of the Mayor through illness, Alderman M. Chapman was voted to the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The adjourned meeting of the general purposes committee of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Town Hall. Present—Aldermen M. Chapm[?]u, Waterhouse, Waine, Norton, Dymock,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some surprise was expressed at Tuesday night's meeting of the Balmain Council at a statement made by the Mayor (Alderman Mills) to the effect that the Government Stores Department had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting of citizens was held at the Australia Hotel yesterday afternoon for the purpose of passing a resolution favourable to the retention of the existing right of appeal to the Privy Council. All these…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting of a representative character was held in the Hotel Australia yesterday afternoon in support of the Imperial Government amending clause 74 of the Commonwealth Bill of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Pilcher, Q.C., and Dr. Sly, instructed by Messrs. Pigott and Stinson, appeared for the defendant borough,and moved for a rule misi to set aside the verdict found for the plaintiff, and for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The second of a series of appeals by the Australian Agricultural Company against the municipal assessment of its various properties was heard at the Municipal Appeal Court to day. The property in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minister for Lands did not mince matters much yesterday when, at the Licensed Victuallers' picnic, he discussed the question as to with whom the responsibility of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speaking at Alexandria yesterday evening, Mr, John See, Minister for Defence, said that municipal government was one of the most important questions which had now to he faced, and it was his intention during next…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An application for a rule nisi for a new trial was made to the Full Court by the defendant borough in a suit for trespass und damage to property, in which James Brierley was the plaintiff and the Borough of Burwood…
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