A Resumption Quarrel. City Council v Works Department. Tramway Tyranny
The following minute by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Allen Taylor) was laid before the works committee of the City Council yesterday:…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1910
3,835 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 192
The Hoardings Nuisance. Railway Commissioners Flouting an Ordinance. a Municipality's Powers
North Sydney Council his tried to prevent the erection of hoardings on the harbor foreshores and other private property, but the Railway Commissioners have flouted the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paddington's Municipal Jubilee
Paddington celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its municipality on April 17, and in no place has half a century shown such wonderful changes as old time…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Municipal Jubilee of Woollahra
One may speak of Woollahra as the twin to Paddington, since municipal life was given to each on the same day; and, although the population of Paddington has outstripped…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Parramatta Council Employees
Employees of the Parramatta Council, at the meeting this week, sent a letter, asking for a rise in wages. An unsympathetic alderman stated that "some are paid too much now for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Council Board. Drummoyne
Alderman Henley, who presided over the last meeting of the Drummoyne Council, read a letter informing the council that the W. and S. Board had decided to proceed with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"A Staggerer." City Council's Land Deal
An area of six acres of land required to effect improvements to the live stock selling yards at Flemington has been purchased by the City Council. In a minute issued to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work and Wages. Among the Unions. Meetings To-night at the Trades Hall. Labor Council. Trades Hall Executive. Hairdressers' Union
The members of the Hairdressers and Wigmakers Employees' Union, at a largely attended meeting held in the Trades Hall, decided to write to Mr. Andrew Fisher and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Government Association. Use of Municipal Funds
Alderman John Wheeler presided at the meeting of the committee of the Local Government Association last night. A question from the Leichhardt council as to whether it could…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal. Bowral
The council has just received the self-lighting and extinguishing appliances for street lamps which were specially ordered from Scotland, and which are calculated to save a great…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Local Government. Our State System. Municipalism at Work. Gas Ownership
Complaints are often made of the powers entrusted to councils under the Local Government Act and the ordinances, and, countercomplaints of the fact that councils are not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shire Councils
BELLINGEN (Bowraville).—At the monthly meeting of the shire council, Cr. Lyon presiding, the engineer reported that the recent rains had damaged the roads in the shire to the extent of £4000. Cr. Dowle then…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Labor Council Elections
At last night's meeting of the Labor Council Messrs. C. Hogan, H. Thyer, Lyell, and Miller were added to the executive of the Trades Union Congress to give effect to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flemington Saleyards. Council's Capital Deal
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Taylor) has presented a minute to the finance committee dealings tag with the acquisition of additional land at Flemington Saleyards. It stated that --…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trades and Labour. Labour Council Officebearers
At the Labour Council's meeting last night Mr. E. J. Kavanagh was elected to a vacancy on the executive committee; Mrs. Dwyer and Mr. J. Gallagher were elected to the organising committee: and Messrs. Hogan,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Unionists at Variance Labor Council Disagreement
There was some excitement at the meeting of the Labor Council last night, when Mr. E. Wilmington (Amalgamated Engineers) referred to the charges made against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flemington Sale Yards. Cost of Additional Land. Minute by the Lord Mayor
The following minute by the Lord Mayor was before the finance committee of the City Council yesterday:- "On or about March 15 last I had an interview…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Courtesies. an Employee and His Cattle
Since the incident of the acid on the minute book, new eight years ago, there has been nothing to disturb the peaceful serenity of Bexley's municipal affairs. Occasionally a little…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrangling Labourites. Dispute in Wentworth. Labour Council Investigating
At last night's meeting of the Labour Council Mr. E. Whittington referred to the charges made by Mr. A. Vernon, the defeated candidate in the Wentworth electorate, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boycott. Adopted by Labor Council. Against a Suburban Showman
Recently a showman with a suburban circuit advertised in the daily, papers for vaudeville artists, and added the words, "No Australian Vaudeville Association Artists required."…
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