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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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At last, night's meeting of the Newtown Council a letter from Mr. C. G. Hatte was read, asking the council if it had come to any decision on the question of the supply of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This council met on Thursday. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Asimus), Aldermen Latham, Hamilton, Bennett, Stimson, Hirst and Palmer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Lord Maror (Alderman T. Hughes) has submitted his policy to thw City Council in the form of a minute. He states that he will loyally devote…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The question of the resumption ol the alienated foreshore of Edwards Bay, Balmoral, is receiving considerable attention in Mosman. For years past the local council has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Council met last night, the Lord Mayor (Alderman. Thomas Hughes) presiding. The recommendation of the general purposes committee that Mr. S. J. Bellemey vacate the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The mail from London to-day brought a report of the decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Webb v Outtrim…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Suburban councils are taking up the serious study of the new Municipalities Act. It is, as some of the aldermen have remarked, a pretty big order, and it will be a long time before its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GULGONG, Wednesday.--At the Wyaldra Shire meeting yesterday, Mr. J. D. Gormley was appointed shire engineer, at a salary of £375. QUEANBEYAN, Wednesday.--The Yarralumla…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recently the comptroller of assets and stores to the City Council Mr. Breden, made certain recommendations to the City Council with the view of effecting some urgently needed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For years past the heavy rains falling on the higher parts of Newtown have caused small floods in some of the lower parts of the borough and adjoining municipalities, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A representative of the "Herald" had an intervie with the Lord Mayor (Alderman Thomas Hughes) with reference to the City Council's electric light undertaking, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—In your paragraph in Wednesday's issue, headed "A Tramway Joke," the Tramway Traffic Superintendent has taken some exception to my remarks, which, however, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The recent exciting bathing incident in the breakers at Manly was discussed at Tuesday's meeting of the local council. The matter of providing a more effective and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The publication in yesterday's "Herald" of the text of the Privy Council's judgment in "Webb v. Outtrim" has stimulated the discussion in legal circles of the High Court's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PERTH, Wednesday.--"The Times" law report contains a luminous statement made by Lord Halsbury, giving the decision of the Privy Council in the appeal case of Webb v. Outtrim…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Canterbury Council a report from a Committee of the whole council was submitted, in which it was recommended that applications be called from persons competent to fill the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two officers of the Works Department are inquiring into the advisability of a septic tank system of sewerage for Goulburn. LISMORE, Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The new Lord Mayor's declaration of policy, delivered to the City Council on Tuesday night, is a plain business document such as might have been issued by the chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BALLINA, Thursday.--The Minister for Works has wired approving of Councillor Whipps, of Alstonville, being appointed shire president. Great disappointment is expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The programme of the Independent Labour Party at the London County Council election proposes municipal ownership or control of electricity, docks, hospitals,…
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