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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The Vaucluse Council recently decided to build new, council chambers, and submit a proposal for the erection of a town hall to a reference of the rate payers. At the same meeting the municipal rate was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Application was made before Judge Heydon in the Industrial Court this morning by Mr. G. Ashton (secretary) on behalf of the Sydney Municipal Council Employees' Union, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The cry of "No Rifles" is becoming acute amongst the rifle clubs of this State. The complaint of shortage has been chronic for several years, but now, just when riflemen who want…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The thoughtful and statesmanlike speech of the Minister for Works, the Hon. Charles Lee, to the Shires Conference is good reading, inasmuch as it shows that the Ministerial officer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a special meeting of the municipal council held last night the annual estimated income for the current year was presented, and a general rate of 3d in the £ on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alderman L. L. Earl, of the Glebe Council, speaking this morning to a reporter of the "Evening News," said:—"About 12 months ago I moved a resolution urging the Glebe Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ARMIDALE.—The Dumaresq Council held its monthly meeting on Thursday, when a rate of 1d in the £ was leved on the capital value of all land in the shire. A return laid on the table showed that £122 was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In a brief interval this morning the Lord Mayor staled that he was very pleased with the result of the general purposes committee's recommendation yesterday. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the last meeting of the Warringah Shire Council, St. M'intosh moved.--"That application be made to the Governor-in-Council for a resubdivision of the shire, and that this council suggest that such division make each…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the opening of the general purposes committee of the City Council yesterday Alderman Cocks called the Lord Mayor's attention to the deputation which waited on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lord Mayor was asked yesterday by a representative of "The Daily Telegraph" if he would make any statement concerning the deputation that waited upon Mr. Leo (Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE attempt of the Sydney Labor Council to obtain a despotic power over the trades unions is easily understandable, quite apart from the actual principles held by those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a reeling of the general purposes committee of the City Council this afternoon Alderman Cocks asked the Lord Mayor if he had read the account of the deputation which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The now general strike rule of the Sydney Labor Council was rescinded at the meeting of that body last night by 66 votes to 44 It was originally adopted on the casting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The concluding six months of last year were, according to the half-yearly report of the Sydney Labor Council, full of unrest and disturbed conditions, which "may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The city aldermen at the invitation of the Lord Mayor this afternoon visited the allow of the proposed resumptions in Liverpool, Oxford, and Flinders streets, after which a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →His Honor recommended the constitution of a Council of the City of Sydney Wages Board, to deal with the conditions of employment of those employees of the council engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Labor Council is beginning to find that it has over-reached itself. The motion which, because of its real purport, has come to be known as the "general strike clause", was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What was expected to be a full dress debate was set down on the notice paper of the special general meeting of the Sydney Labor Council on Thursday night. There was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The municipal council has received a subsidy of £77 from the Government under the Local Government Act provisions. Alderman H. R. Hain, who was one of the three…
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