The City Council
The City Council have at last taken action to appoint a permanent city organist. The finance committee last evening at first proposed to throw the position open to the…
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Council & local affairs, 1909
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City Land Tax. Minute From the Lord Mayor
The following minute from the Lord Mayor on the subject of the land tax was presented to the finance committee of the City Council at its meeting yesterday afternoon:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor Council's New President
Mr. Harry Thyer, the new president of the Labor Council, was elected to the position met night. In thanking the delegates Mr. Thyer said that in face of the resolution…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Meetings. Adjungbilly (Gundagai)
The clerk's statement showed a credit balance, of £1,240 14s. 8d. The president said that he had been on the bulk of the roads, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Council Board Waterloo
At their last meeting the waterloo counell recieved a communication from her secretary to the Chief Railway Commissioner dealing with the request of the council for larger train card to be ran on the zeland…
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In order to know what to do and where stands in collecting the land tax which the Government has handed over to the City Council, the Lord Mayor proposes to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Power for the Labor Council
After several weeks of discussion the series of resolutions brought forward by the executive of the Sydney Labor Council to give that body greater power were finally deart…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mosman Council Rebuked. Ignoring a Progress Association
The Mosman Progress Association and the local municipal council are not on the best of terms, the majority of the aldermen holding the opinion that the other body trespasses on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney Labor Council. New President Installed
Mr. Harry Thyer was formally installed in the position of president of the Sydney Labor Council at the meeting of that body last night. The new president was born, at Newport, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trades and Labour. Powers of the Labour Council
A long discussion took place at the Sydney Labour Council last night on a motion submitted by Mr. H. Thyer for the adoption of the following rule:—"Every society and council affiliated shall agree to and abid[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Homebush Saleyards City Council and the Selling Agents
Something in the nature of friction is likely to arise between the City Council and the selling agents at Homebush. The latter continue to complain about the accomodation, the inadequacy of which was said…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Sydney Labor Council and a General Strike
THE attempt which the Sydney Labor Council has been making for some time to get the absolute power of bringing about a general strike has at length been crowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Times of Strikes. the Labor Council's Powers
The long discussion on rule 8 of the proposed constitution of the new Trades and Labor Council came to an end at last night's meeting of the Sydney Labor Council. The rule read…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire Legal Problems. Questions Answered by the Association's Adviser. Annual Losses and Rates
From Hastings shire council.—In any shire it is probable that there would be annual leases and a record kept in the rate book for the current year. If…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Strike Time. Labor Council's New Power. Me. Marshall Explains
The carrying by one vote toy the Sydney Labor Council last night of the new rule giving the council power over the unions affiliated with it in all matters requiring its intervention and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Banks of lABOR. Mill Employees and Employers. City Council Electrical Workers
Representatives of the Millers and Mill Employees' Union and the N.S.W. Mill Owners' Association, met in conference to discuss a proposed log of wages and new conditions of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Municipal. Broken Hill
The City Council has further dealt with the matter o one man one billet, when the Mayer reported that three of the council employees were earning money in other ways;…
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This council met at Castle Hill on Wednesday evening. Present: Councillors Hopkins president), Fripp, Cranston, Whitling and Lowe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lively Council Meeting. Narrabri West's Doings. Town Clerk Asked to Resign. Aldermen Nail Up Council-chambers. Narrabri
At the last meeting of Narrabri West municipal council, the Mayor, Alderman Fanning, presiding, correspondence was read from Mr. Border, auditor, of Waigett, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Mayor's Position
MAYOR FURNIVAL'S remarks, at Auburn the Ainirm the other evening, relative to the clashing between private interests and public duties certainly demand…
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