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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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More than half of the newly-elected Sydney Municipal Council are members of the Roman Catholic Church. This denomination, with 14 representatives out of 26, is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A large and distinguished gathering assembled at the Town Hall in the evening at the invitation of the Lord Mayor, to dine with Lord Kitchener. The Lord Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BATHURST, Wednesday.-- At a meeting of the Bathurst Municipal Council to-night the deputy-Mayor (Ald. A. B. J. James) explained how it was no large coal had yet been received…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A special meeting of the New South Wales Labor Council has been summoned to meet in the Sydney Trades Hall, Goulburn-street, to night. The object of the meeting is to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The spirit of stagnation hangs like a heavy pull over our city aldermen. With one or two exceptions they are either two timorous to initiate anything which might be termed…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →The valuable report of the Sydney Medical Officer of Health, Dr. W. G. Armstrong, for 1908 has only one defect, viz., that it should have been so long delayed before being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the last four meetings of the Brisbane municipal council, friction has been caused by certain aldermen. The ratepayers disapproving of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Bellingen police court, an application to oust Mr. James Nicholson Stewart from the position of councillor on the Bellingen shire council, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Collie Council deadlock continues. The Mayor (Alderman A. E. Borkwood), who stands committed for trial on charges of embezzlement and falsification, again occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A letter was rend from the Katoomba Gas, Co., offering to light Black-heath at £8 per lamp. The amount was considered excessive, and could…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glen Innes wishes to know if engineers under the old works department regime were required to submit monthly time sheets showing where the working days of each month were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great portion of the time of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council was taken up last night in discussing strike matters. A letter was received from the Coal-lumpers' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The disastrous effects of the coal strike have reached Broken Hill, where more than 2000 workers are now idle. The local council has moved in the matter, and has forwarded to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The attitude of the Labor Council toward the strike wad the subject of an animated discussion at last night's meeting of the council, following on a report made at the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The business set down for the meeting of the Trades and Labor Council last night was the election of officers, but the first hour and a half was spout in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the weekly meeting of the Trades and Labour Council last night nominations for officers for the ensuing term were received. Mr. Farrar (vice-president) was nominated for president, and others whose names…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The name of Mr. Smithers, S.M., cropped up in the Redfern Council last night, on the report of the sanitary inspector (Mr. J. Forgie), who said that with regret he was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday.--Sir George Sydenham Clarke--Governor of Bombay, and formerly Governor of Victoria--yesterday opened the Legislative Council of Bombay,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recently about 300 tons of sand were deposited along the shore side of the men's Municipal Baths in Woolloomooloo Bay, and the sandy stretch has become a favorite paddling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The municipal council on Monday evening adopted the estimates for the coming financial year. These involve a rate of 6[?]d on the unimproved capital value, which stands at…
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