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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The fact that Lady St. Hollers has recently been appointed as an alderman on the London County Council gives the Australian woman food for reflection. "Will she be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Out of ninety-four municipally-worked tramway undertakings in the United Kingdom no fewer than thrity-one are worked out a loss, twenty-three more meet their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday Evening.-The French elections are being held to-day. An elector voting at Cognac snot the Mayor, was presiding, dead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annual report of the town clerk of Randwick for last year states that in March a, deputation waited on the Minister for Works, and urged the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During the progress of the voting in the parliamentary election at Cognac the Mayor of the town, who was presiding in tho polling booth, was shot dead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, Saturday.--The nominations for the six, seats in the Legislative Council, rendered vacant by the effuxion of time, closed yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It is reported from Victoria that Miss Vida Goldstein, far from being downcast at her defeat in the contest for the Senate, is now contemplating a descent on the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dissatisfaction with the system of dealing with appeals against municipal valuatious of land has been expressed from time to time since the new Local Government Act came into operation. A suggestion made…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woollahra, as a corporate municipal body, is now 50 years old. Great progress has been made within the area during the past half-century. At the date of incorporation there were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOOMI. -- At a meeting of the Boomi Shire Council, held on the 19th inst., Crs. Crowley (president) and Scott were appointed delegates to confer with representatives of the Booloorno Shire Council on the 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mayor of Woollahra adjourned the Council meeting last night for five minutes in order to allow a couple of the aldermen to cool down. Things had got a bit mixed over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A petition signed by a number of Bexley ratepayers was presented at the last meeting of the local council, urging the reinstatement of one of the municipal work men. In furtherance of the request, Ald. Griffin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During a discussion at the Woollahra Council on Monday a scene occurred which caused the adjournment of the council for a few minutes, in order to separate two aldermen who had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the New South Wales Executive Council was held this afternoon, at which His Excellency Lord Chelmsford presided. The following appointments were made:-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woollahra has for long enjoyed the reputation of reputation of possessing a model council. Its meetings have been conducted with a serenity that palls one the newspaper reporier who is out for "copy." But that serenity was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The monthly meeting of the Ratepayers' Association was held an Tuesday evening in the School of Arts. The president, Mr. E. C. Roberts, presided. The Forestry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Prospect and Sherwood Council evidently includes alderman whose souls soar above the ordinary blue metal and culvert plane of progress for by a majority they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the meeting of the City Council last night the Lord Mayor paid a brief but eloquent tribute to the late Alderman E. W. O'Sullivan, M.L.A. He said that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The discussion on the electric lighting scheme as proposed by the City Council was the overture to the infusion of more than the ordinary animation with which the Woollahra…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"It appears to me when I get up to speak there are certain aldermen who don't want to hear me," remarked Alderman Walker last night at the City Council meeting…
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