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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The usual meeting of the health committee of the City Council was held yesterday, Alderman Sam Smith, M.L.A., presiding. The City Building Surveyor reported as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another clear day in regard to plague was experienced yesterday, this bring the second in succession. Further, there were no deaths at the Coast Hospital, and the condition of the patients…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Health Committee of the City Council met yesterday. In the absence of the Mayor, who was engaged extending a welcome to the Victorian bowlers now on a visit to this city, the chair was occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Health Committee of the City Council met yesterday morning. "I have the honor to report having visited the following premises and noted the structural…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The City Council, which appears to have become the focus of municipal intelligence now-a-days—a remarkable change within two years —has been debating the subject of the best…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →BALMAIN ratepayers, having heard so much during the past month or two about financial reform and the urgent necessity for retrenchment in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., sat yesterday in the Water Summons Court for the purpose of hearing appeals against the assessments made by the valuators for the Borough of Randwick for the year…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An extraordinary election to fill the vacancy in the office of Alderman for Waverley Ward, caused by the resignation of Alderman T. Cummius, took place yesterday. The Mayor (Alderman W. Carter) was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Last night at a meeting of the municipal council the Anti-War League sent a communication asking the co-operation of the council in endeavouring to secure peace in South Africa. Alderman Cox…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On resuming the conference in the Town Hall yesterday Mr Grantham (Hurstville) moved, as an amendment to the recommendation of the special…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The sittings of the Progress Associations' Union Conference were resumed at the Town-hall yesterday. The president. Mr. G. F. Hutchinson, of Forbes, occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Jabez Rhodes, who is a candidate for the vacant seat in Banks Ward, Botany Municipal Council, addressed the ratepayers on Thursday evening, Mr. P. J. Craddock presiding. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—With your permission I would like to put a few facts before the ratepayers through your widely-circulated paper in this district, leaving them to form their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The recent re-election of Mr. Allen Taylor to the Mayoral chair of Annandale for the sixth year in succession seems to suggest that the aldermen of that borough, having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A special meeting of the Annandale Council was held last week for the purpose of electing a Mayor in the place of Alderman Allen Taylor, who resigned the postiiton prior to leaving for England. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A general meeting of the Ryde Municipal Council was held on Friday evening, the Mayor, Alderman Betts, occupying the chair. The tender of Mr. S. Kemp for £1250, for the erection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The twentieth quarterly meeting of the Council of Advice was held in the Land Board room of the Lands Department, when there were present Messrs. W. Allison. C. S…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It has been discovered that the man Bott, who died from plague in the early part of last week, was employed in one of the cleansing gangs of the City Council. At the time of his infection it was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A letter was received at the meeting of the "Waterloo Council from the Department of Public Instruction, asking for information es to how many signatures had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Jabez Rhodes, who is a candidate for the vacant seat as one of the representatives of Banks Ward in the Municipal Council of Botany, addressed a meeting of ratepayers from the balcony of the…
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