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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1911

4,745 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 238

Manly Council Insolvent. The Finances in a State of Wreck How the Council Was Saved at Chirstmas

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 1

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Dundas Council. A Loan Required to Keep Going

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 2

This council met on Wednesday evening Present: The Mayor (Alderman J. Neil), Aldermen F. Spurway, Midson, Auchterlonic, Watts, Sonter, Rhodes and…

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Council's Motor Waggons. to Be Shipped This Month

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 16

Advices have been received by Alick MeNeil and Mcintosh, ltd., announcing that four motor waggons ordered from the leyland Motor Waggon Company of London for the City Council of Sydney in June last…

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Annandale Electric Light. the Contract Time Kept. Council Fully Satisfied

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 11

Aid. James Robertson, Mayor of Annandale, when he has time to spare from his civic duties, manages his big canister factory in Nelson-street, of which the smokestack is one of the landmarks of the locality…

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Trades and Labour. Labour Council Officers. Mr. W. L. Duncan Elected President

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 14

Nominations for office-bearers in the Sydbey Labour Council for the ensuring 12 months have been received, and the elections will be carried out it the next meeting there are six names in for the position of…

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Municipal. Cooma

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 11

At the monthly meeting of the municipal council a letter from the Public Works Department was read, stating that contract drawings in connection with the water…

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Shires and Municipalities

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 19

CASINO.--The municipal council has refused to adopt the proposed general rate of 3d on the unimproved land value. A proposal to strike a rate of 2d was defeated and 2½d was adopted, which will mean a reduction of…

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Municipal Reform. to the Editor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 6

Sir,—As we will be called on shortly to elect aldermen and shire councillors throughout the State, I should like to call the attention of the ratepayers and…

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Municipal

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 6

The Labor Government at Auburn announces a public meeting in the Town Hall for Tuesday next, when Mayor Lang and his colleagues will give an account of…

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The Sunday School This Page Is Under the Auspices of the Council of the Sunday School Department. Our Boys and Girls. the Anti-lion

The Methodist · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 4

My Dear Boys and Girls,—Have you ever noticed in the garden, or some sandy place, little funnel-shaped depressions in the sand, just as if some boy had been spinning his top there, and it had worked it's way down…

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Mayor Gaynor's Assailant Sentenced

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 14

Gallagher, the man who shot Mr. Gaynor, Mayor of New York, and afterwards shot at Air. Edwards, the Commissioner of Street Cleaning of New York, has been convicted of assault with…

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Members of Parliament and the Labor Council

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 14

At the Sydney Labor Council meeting several delegates complained that the Labor movement was "being bossed by members of Parliament and others outside the sphere of…

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Shire Nominations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 11

BLAXLAND (Lithgow).—At tins week's meeting of the Blaxlind Shire Council the estimates for the year were submitted and showed proposed expenditure of £7128 in the general fund. This involved a rate of…

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"Monstrous Injustice." Railway Resumptions at Redfern. Council Up in Arms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 9

The Mayor and aldermen of Redfern are up in arms against the Railway Commissioners for resuming so much land in the municipality of Redfern and not paying rates. The Mayor…

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Municipal. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 7

The city valuator's report, gives the property valuations for the counting three years as follows:—Improved capital value: Sturt Ward, £395,495; Burke, £222,834; Wills,…

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N.s.w. Municipal Elections

Construction : Weekly Supplement to Building · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 6

The second municipal elections under the new Local Government Act of New South Wales are fixed for January 28, and nominations have to be in the hands of returning officers on dates varying from…

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Alexandria Municipal Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1911 · page 10

A report submitted by Mr. J. S. Sutton, council clerk of Alexandria, detailing the municipal transactions for last year, gives the total revenue at £837118. The rates levied amounted to £678878. All the rates were…

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A Mayor's Allowance. an Inquisitive, Alderman. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 6

Special interest was exhibited in to-night's meeting of the Newcastle City Council, Alderman Light, who was requested to leave the council chamber at the previous meeting,…

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Aldermen Come to Judgment

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 11

With the near approach of the municipal elections at North Sydney, attention has been again directed to the oval enclosure on the local park. The high boarded fence around that area has been an eye[?]re to residents…

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The Mayor's Money

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 4

The request of a Newcastle alderman that the local mayor should submit a statement showing his expenditure during the last two years, in order that the council might judge whether his allowance of £200 per annum was adequate, revives a municipal question upon which there has been a good deal of discussion at…

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