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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Colonel Pringle and Mr Angus, the retiring councillors for C Riding of the Blacktown Shire, addressed a good representative meeting of electors at Eastern Creek on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Penrith some of the retiring aldermen who are seeking re-election say they are not to blame for the Government water contract; the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—The conduct of our municipal affairs appears to me to be very loose. I find it of little use writing to the council, as they will not answer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Except in some half-dozen districts, where, for specific reasons, the election has been fixed for a later date, voting is to-day proceeding for the first time under the Local Government…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Mayor's annual report, read at last night's meeting[?] congratulated the council and ratepayers on the satisfactory state of the finances. The general account began the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mr. J. C. Watson, M.P., was interviewed yesterday on the subject of municipal socialism. Referring to Mr. Wade's manifesto, which…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,--The plea to tax unimproved land values in the municipal arena under the new Local Government Act is certainly a blessing if understood and embraced by the new army of councillors to be elected to-day. In the first…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The first trial of strength at the polls for Beats in the shires and municipal councils under the provision of the new Act takes place to-day. There has been for several weeks a growing…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The electors of Parramatta have not much choice to-day. In Anderson Ward Mr. Thomas would displace one of the old brigade. No one can doubt Mr. Thomas's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sir,—The objections of your correspondent, W. L. Turner, in a recent issue, to rating on the unimproved value of the land, might be prompted by self-interest,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Yes, the price of milk has gone up, and a further advance will be necessary if this dry weather continues," said Farmer South Coast. "Why there is that black cow "Cardiff." she has done well by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night, the Electric Lighting Committee will recommend "That the business of the Imperial Arcade Electric Lighting…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →By Camperdown P.L.L. and Orange P.L.L.: "The abolition of the Legislative Council and substitution of the referendum and initiation be a plank in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The first general elections under the Local Government Act were held on Saturday, when nearly 3000 men were returned as the representatives of the people on the shires and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Kilmore Revision Court yesterday Constable O'Keefe drew attention to the fact that the occupation of the Rev. Griffith R. Jones, Presbyterian minister of Broadford, had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alderman Andy Kelly, of the City Council, has his eye on Fame. Whether Fame has her eye on him is at present unknown, but the eloquent and ambitious alderman has a scheme,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday Afternoon.---The design of Ralph Knott, a young and unknown Loudon architect, has been selected for the London County Council's new hall, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The monsoonal rain which fell on practically the whole of New South Wales on Saturday had the result of keeping the figures in the polling for the municipal and shire councils at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADAMSTOWN.—Thos. John Rutherford, John Thwaites John Gellately, Stephen Powell, James Arthur Eaton, James Bullerwell, Theophilus Robin, Wm. Davidson Angus, Matthew Lydon (elected)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a meeting of the municipal council on Thursday, reference was made to the past work of the council, and the retirement from municipal life of Aldermen York, Lloyd,…
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