Municipal Men's Log. Claims Forwarded
The N.S.W. Municipal Employees' Union has forwarded to the Town Clerk of Sydney a log of claims for wages and conditions covering various classes of the City Council's employees…
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Council & local affairs, 1912
5,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250
Municipal Employees' Strike. Services at a Standstill
LONDON, Monday Evening.--Two thousand municipal employees of Salford have struck. The electricity, gas, and scavenging services are at a standstill…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sporting Gossip and Anecdotes Municipal Golf Links
Yarmouth Corporation has decided to lay out a municipal golf course on the North Denes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robbers and Manholes. an Alderman's Experience
The Vaucluse Council is determined in seeing that the dividing walls between semi-despatched collages shall be carried eight through to the roof. This is the outcome of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Periect Mayor. Discovered at Last. the Citizens' Opportunity
Art may sometimes condescend to learn from Nature, and in Tiny Town—Just now a popular rendezvous of Sydney citizens—will be found the ideal mayor of our dreams. His worship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Mincing of Words. Report on City Cleansing. Careless Citizens. Inspector's Difficulties. Aldermen and Unions
In connection with the adverse criticism on the condition of the city streets, the chief inspector of the cleansing department (Mr. J. D. Webster) has prepared a report in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council
The PRESIDENT took the chair at halfpast 4. PETITIONS. Mr. ALEX, BROWN presented a petition…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Divided Control City Council and Board of Health
On the question of bringing the present regulations of the City Council into line with the regulations promulgated under the Pure Food Act, and of providing for the licensing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Banks of Labor. Building Laborers. What Council Employees Want
Masons' laborers are the only members of the Builders' Laborers Union who are not specifically included in the provisions of the newly-created Wages Board applying to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Speaker and "Hansard." Additional Papers Tabled. in the Legislative Council
All the correspondence relating to the trouble between the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Mr. C. Robinson, Chief of "Hansard" reporting staff, was laid on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Industrial Arbitration. New Bill in the Council. Mr. Flowers Cross-examined. the Price of Industrial Peace
The principal business dealt with in the legislative Council was that relating to the second reading of the Industrial Arbitration Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Municipal Employees' Claims
The Municipal Employees' Union has written to the City Council submitting claims in regard to wages and conditions. The claims include the following demands:—Hours to be (except for watchmen) 48 per…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Local Government. Our State System. Municipalism at Work. the Roads Question
That the main roads of [?] State are falling into a condition of disrepair which involves a serious national loss is generally admitted. Indeed, the matter is rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal. Murwillumbah
Isaac Fernandez has been elected unopposed for the aldermanic vacancy caused by the retirement of Alderman G. Baker. The Tweed Shire Council has struck a rate…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →CORRESPONDENCE Shire Council's Expenditure
"F.S.A." asks:—Can a shire council legally expend money from general rate for the purpose of construction and maintenance of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Aldermen as Singers
At the conclusion of the Council meeting last night Mayor Low entertained the aldermen and several ex-aldermen at a social evening. A lengthy toast list was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire and Municipal
Within a few months the Culcairn Shire Council has lost its clerk, its engineer, and its assistant clerk, At an extraordinary election for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire and Municipal. Bingara
BINGARA, Tuesday.--The municipality approved of the estimates last night. The estimated expenditure amounts to £70[?], and the receipts to £250. A rate of 3d in the £ on the unimproved capital value has been imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Burglar and Policeman." North Sydney Council Criticised. Mayor's Overweening Importance
North Sydney Council, chiefly through their Mayor, Alderman Milson, turned an icy shoulder to Mosman Progress Association on Tuesday night. The latter body had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire Councils
GOSFORD.—At a meeting of the council it was decided to urge the Minister for Lands to resume that portion of land known as Berkley Estate, parish of Tuggerah, and to subdivide same into small holdings…
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