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Council & local affairs, 1909

4,589 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 230

NO. 1 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Cohen, without a jury.) a Question of Rates. Municipality of Rockdale v Board of Water Supply and Sewerage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 7

Mr. D. G. Ferguson and Mr. A. M. Cohen, instructed by Messrs. Harold T. Morgan and Morgan, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Garland, instructed by Mr. H. S. Williams, for…

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The Saleyards Question. Agitation for Removal. Municipal or State Control?

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 9

The agitation for the removal of the fat stock saleyards from Flemington to a new site within the abattoirs area at Homebush Bay, and the merging of them, for purposes of control, into…

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Law. Tuesday, March 16. the State Courts. No. 1 JURY. (Before Mr. Justice Cohen.) Rating a Sewage Farm. Rockdale Municipality V. Water and Sewerage Board

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 14

The hearing was continued of the action brought by the council of the municipality of Rockdale against the Board of Water Supply and Sewerage, claiming to recover £78 as being…

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City Council and Labor League. Belmore Branch Condemns Aldermen

The Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 10

The attitude of the City Council in connection with the outbreak of plague was considered at a meeting of the Belmore branch of the Political Labor League last…

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Greater Sydney. The Redfern Movement. What Aldermen Think

The Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 2

Alderman Batchelor's motion in favor of the union of the Redfern municipality with the city will be discussed at the Redfern Council this evening. Meanwhile the…

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Leichhardt Council Offices

The Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 5

Some very necessary alterations have been made in the arrangement of the office accommodation at Leichhardt Town Hall, Formerly the town clerk was "cribbed, cabined,…

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Manly Council Wants £10,000

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 8

Alderman Ogilvy moved at Tuesday's meeting of the Manly Council—"That a special meeting of the council be called as per regulation 3 of the Local Government Act, 1906, for the…

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New City Markets. Question of Inspection. Deputation to the Lord Mayor

The Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 7

Alderman Meagher this morning introduced to the Lord Mayor a deputation representing various branches of the iron trade, who urged the appointment of a qualified…

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In Terror of Eviction. Oxford-street Tenants. Interview the Lord Mayor

The Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 7

Aldermen Lindsay Thompson, Lees, English, and Meagher were present this morning with a large deputation representing Oxford street tenants and leaseholders who…

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The Corporation Baths. Action by the Lord Mayor. a Judge's Complaint

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 6

The habitues of the new Corporation Baths, Sydney Doamin, have been startled during the last last few days by a complaint made by one of the Supreme Court Judges or what has been…

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Council V. Board. the Arncliffe Sewage Farm

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 4

A conclusion was reached this morning of the hearing, before Mr. Justice Cohen, in No. [?] Jury Court, without a jury, of the action brought by the council of the Municipality of…

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Taxi-cabs in Melbourne. City Council's Dilemma. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 8

The hackney carriage committee of the City Council is still wrestling with question of licensing taxi-cabs. The principal difficulty in the way of the committee is due to the…

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The Plague. Case at Newcastle. Council's Gang Affected. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 7

What is believed by the doctors to be a case of plague was discovered at Newcastle this evening. A man named John Logue, engaged by the council as a rat-catcher, who came from…

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Lawn Tennis. New South Wales Council. Tasmania's Approaching Meeting. Inter-university Tournament. District and Pennant Matches

The Star · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 3

The first meeting of the new council of the association was held on Tuesday evening last, when the president. (Mr. W. Dunlop) occupied the chair, and the…

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NO. 1 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Cohen, without a jury.) a Question of Rates. Municipality of Rockdale v Board of Water Supply and Sewerage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 3

Mr. D. G. Ferguson and Mr. A. M. Cohen, instructed by Messrs. Harold T. Morgan and Morgan, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Garland, instructed by Mr. H. S. Williams, for…

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Local Government. Our State System. Municipalism at Work. Slum Destruction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 10

The Trades Hall has begun to take some interest in the question of slums and housing, and have been making systematic inspections of some of the slum areas in Sydney,…

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Municipal Fiscalism

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 4

If the proposal of the City Council to accept the tender of a New South Wales firm for the supply of wood blocks at a higher price than one received from another…

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Law. Wednesday, March 17. the State Courts. No. 1 JURY. (Before Mr. Justice Cohen.) Rating a Sewage Farm. Rockdale Municipality V. Water and Shwerage Hoard

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1909 · page 8

The hearing was continued, of the action brought by the council of the municipality of Rockdale against the Board of Water Supply and Sewerage, claiming to recover £78 as being due for rates in respect of land known as the…

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Shire Councils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 9

ABERCROMBIE (Rockley).—The following candidates have been nominated for the vacancy in O riding:—lacob Uarnes Thos. Charles Hackney, and James Kessey. A poll will be taken on the 27th…

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Manly Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1909 · page 10

At the fortnightly meeting of the Manly Council, Alderman Ogilvy secured the acceptance of a motion that a special meeting of the council be called to consider the advisability borrowing £10,000 for the…

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