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The dispute with respect to the unloading of the Strathfillan's coal at Cockatoo Dock has not yet been settled. A special meeting of the executive committee of the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The election of a President of the Hornsby Shire Council for the ensuing term was held on Thursday, President Nixon in the chair, and there being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The cultivated portions of Sydney's parks are at present looking their best. It is gratifying to find that the various spots in the reserves, which have been, made into beautiful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the report presented by Mr. L. Deall, to the Ashfield Quarterly Meeting, he mentions that in the Sunday-school Examination for 1909, in all New South Wales, there entered 195 schools, an increase of 11…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fact referred to in previous issues of the "Newsletter" of the development of an active spirit of municipal government among our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A special meeting of the Hurstville Council was convened on Thursday evening for the purpose of conferring with Mr. Varney Parkes. M.L.A. on matters of municipal and general…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mr. C. J. Fraser has been elected Mayor for the third time. MOLONG,. Friday. The Molong Municipal Council has decided…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Expensive" is an exasperating word. "Inefficient" is lamentable. Worse than either is "corruption," with the quality of Immorality superadded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ARMIDALE.--The monthly meeting of the Dumaresq Shire Council was held on Thursday. The sum of £454 in wages and salaries was passed for payment. Regarding overdue…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A special meeting of the Rookwood Council was held on Tuesday evening, to consider suggestions for the re-organisation of the council's staff, etc. There…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Mayor, aldermen, officers, and employees, with their wives (and all other relations apparently), to the number of quite 1000, assembled at Clifton Gardens yesterday to hold their fourth annual picnic. Luncheon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GOULBURN.--At a special meeting of the council the retiring Mayor (Aid. H. Holloway) submitted a comprehensive report dealing with the year's work. Twentytwo new buildings were erected during the period, and mises…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[?]DJUNGBILLY (Gundagai).—Mr. James [?] has been elected president of the Adjungbilly Shire the fourth time. BATHURST (Turon).—The sum of £2000 has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mayor of Alexandria (Alderman M'Cauley) has issued a report dealing with the work of the council for the past year. The year has been a record one, the current income amounting to £7800, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alderman Halstead (Mayor of Kogarah) submitted a minute to the last meting of the council reviewing the progress made during the year just closed. Among other things it stated that the total amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alderman E. Lindsay Thompson writes:-- I have read in your issue the report of the King Labor League on my recent vo[?]e in the City Council, and while I fully recognise…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The comparative lack of interest taken in a public meeting held last night under the auspices of the Colliery Employees' Federation to protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the course of an address to the members of Hurstville Council on Thursday night Mr. Parkes, M.L.A., referred to the management of water and sewerage affairs, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The peace proposals of Mr. Paterson. president of the Federated Coal and Shale Workers' Association, are bearing fruit, and this afternoon it should be known definitely whether the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--Sir Herbert H. Risley. Home Secretary to the Government of India, in submitting to the Viceroy's Council the Tress Bill--which…
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