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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Sometimes it does not pay to be the Mayor of a country town in has examination before the Acting Registrar in Bankruptcy, George Randall said that his official duties as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At last night's meeting of the City Council the following recommendation of the electric lighting committee come up for discussion:— "(a) That a letter dated April 29, 1908, from…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The celebration of Empire Day at Newtown was a subject upon which a sharp passage of arms took place at the close of the business of the Newtown Council last evening…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Council of the N.S. Wales Athletic League met at the secretary's office on Saturday, 9th inst., at 8 p.m., when there were present: Messrs, H.Rose (chair), E. T., Jefferson, E. R…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Some of the city aldermen view with concern the establishment of electric lighting competition at Balmain. Stay regard the proposed station as a trunk from which branches…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The City Council held a long and at times boisterous meeting last night. Attention was drawn by Alderman Thompson to the delay in the uprooting of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When the extreme land value taxers amongst us claim that their cause has just achieved an overwhelming victory they make no idle boast. Broadly speaking, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The municipal gymnasium In Prince Alfred Park has led the City Council into a new source of trouble. On April 6 last a boy met with an accident at the place of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A special meeting of the Prospect and Sherwood Council was convened for hist Saturday afternoon, for the purpose pf conforming with a provision of the Local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some of the city councillors want a Lord Mayor's carnival, on the lines, we presume, of the Lord Mayor's Show in London. The idea is worthy of the City Council, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →KATOOMBA, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the council it was decided to invite tho officers, etc., of the American fleet to visit Katoomba and Leura during their visit to the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Complaint has been made that the public conveniences of a number of hotel premises in the city of Sydney are constantly in a disgusting state, in most instances the trouble in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lane Cove Council, at its last meeting, agreed to co-operate with the Paddington Council in its resolution to the effect that the surplus funds of the Water and Sewerage Board, amounting to about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the many things municipal which the Lord Mayor of Sydney has studied with tireless energy is the problem of a smokeless city. The subject has had his close attention for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A good deal of uneasiness exists at present among the residents of the southern suburban districts owing to the threatened influx of the Chinese who were evicted from Wexford-street…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Deakin, questioned to-day in regard to the doings of the Premiers' Conference, said:- "When the full report appears it will throw more light upon transactions which to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the meeting of the National Rifle 'Association last night some startling facts were brought to light about the condition of the military forces as regards marksmanship…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, 'Wednesday.--Mr, Deakin said that a certain number of misconceptions, had crept into the accounts of tho proceedings of the conference which would be corrected when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday.--The Judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case Campbell v. The Australian Mutual Provident Society--an appeal from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Campbell versus the Australian Mutual Provident Society has delivered its reserved judgment…
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