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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The City Council last night adopted by a substantial majority the recommendation of the finance committee,—"That the offer of Mr. E. H. Lemaire to visit Sydney and give a series of recitals on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The City Council at its meeting last night received from the finance committee a recommendation that tenders and designs be invited by advertisement for painting and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alderman Joseph Wetherill Cockbaine, of the Petersham Municipal Council, was elected to the position in 1902, and performed his aldermanic duties up till the end of December…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The question whether an alderman can continue to remain such after be has the electoral roll for the borough was before the Full Court in a case in which an application…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A meeting of the ratepayers of Redfern was held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening last for the purpose of considering what steps might be taken to in some way…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The following were appointed committees for the year at the meeting of the Granville Council last evening:--Finance, works, and lighting, the whole council; park, Aldermen Symons, Kirk,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The monthly meeting of the council of the Railway Institute was held on the 20th instant. The Secretary for Railways (Mr. H. M. Lachian) as president, occupied the chair. There was a full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 25.—It is reported at Johannesburg that the real reason why General Botha, Commandant De la Rey, and Dr. Smuts refused seats in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the council meeting last night a letter was read from the Minister for Works declining to construct a weir on Molong Creek. The Mayor commented severely on the fact that when an officer was sent up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The United Service Lodge, No. 92, Marrickville, of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society held its usual fortnightly meeting in the lodge-room, Town Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported at Johannesburg that the real reason why General Botha, Commandant Delarey, and Dr. Smuts refused seats in the Legislative Council was the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--"When the amendments made by the Legislative Council in the Reform Bill came before the Legislative Assembly to-night for consideration, the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier when the order for considering the Council's amendments in the Reform Bill was called on alluded to the fact that Parliament had entered on its duties with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I notice in your issue of this morning that the Government propose to pay the promised special municipal subsidy after the publication of the balance-sheet for the half-year ended February…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alderman Leeder, or Hurstville, has proposed the establishment of a municipal slaughter house, to be maintained jointly by the Hurstville Kogarah. Rockdale, and Bexley Councils…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Act was passed last session by the State Parliament providing for the payment of a subsidy of 2s 6d in the £, based upon the returns for the year 1902. The object of the measure, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amount previously acknowledged, £4499 12s 1d; Tooth and Company, Limited, £100; Armidale Committee, first instalment, per W. M. Harris, £100; W. and A. M'Arthur, Limited, £25; Burns,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At last night's meeting of the Redfern Council, the Mayor slated that he had given permission to the ladies' committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund to make street collections in the borough…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The sanitary inspector at the meeting of the Alexandria Council has reported that six cases of infectious diseases—two of scarlatina, three of scarlet fever, and one of typhoid—had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The day labour system naturally found some of its warmest advocates among the delegates of the Sydney Labour Council when the subject cropped up for consideration at…
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