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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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A few days ago the ordinances under which shires and municipalities are expected to work in pursuance of the Local Government Act were published, and they have caused a good deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I have to thank the Lawson Progress Association for their letter in your issue of 26th January. First, for the very high compliment they pay me by making an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Parramatta Council meeting this week, the special committee's report, dealing with the proposed erection of a "kitchen," an adjunct to the Town Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The editor of this page, believing he heard a voice bidding him to "come apart. and rest awhile" lias been away for a three-weeks' holiday. A brother minister kindly undertook to "keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The chaotic state that Councils find themselves in consequent upon the cumbersome method and blundering manner in which the Local Government Act has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir, -- I have read with some interest the letter of your correspondent "A Practising Accountant Since 1890" in "The Daily Telegraph" of to-day, and whilst sympathising with him in the pecuniary loss he might suffer…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE regular meeting of the above council was held at the Council Chamber un Tuesday evening last Present—The Mayor (Alderman Smith), and Aldermen Whitfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Seven of the Nyngan aldermen, out of nine (says the "Observer"), were hauled up before the Bench on Thursday for not doing their duty to the satisfaction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The report that a number of clerks are to be placed in the Taxation Department, published during the week, led a "Sunday Times" representative yesterday to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BOWRAL, Sunday.--The Nattai Shire Council have granted an allowance of £30 per annum to their president, while the maximum amount stipulated by the ordinance has been allowed to councillors…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Premier, speaking at a public meeting at Lyndoch on Friday night, without announcing the intentions of the Government in regard to the Franchise Bill, said that at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The council held a special meeting last night, when Alderman M'Quian was unanimously elected Mayor in the room of the late Alderman Heane, and also for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A conference took place here yesterday between the representatives of the Lake Macquarie and the Tarro Shire Councils relative to the appointment of an engineer. At a previous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COLO.—An allowance of £30 has been granted the president, and it was announced that the sum of £1570 had been received as the half-year's subsidy. The estimated amount of the year's rates is £1149…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Birt and Co, Limited, Sydney agents for the indenmentioned steamers, report movements us follows:- The Cornwall arrived in London on the 18th ult. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir Joseph Ward would like to see an Imperial Council of Advice in London which would have the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--To my mind it is perfectly clear that the Local Government Act of 1906 distinctly provides for the election of a Mayor in each municipality on some day between the first and fifteenth days of February of this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir Joseph Ward, Piemier of New Zealand, arrlved in Melbourne to-day, on route for Loudon, to take part in the Imperial Conference…
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