Municipal Resumptions at Glebe
The Glebe Council has been notified that the Governor-in-Council has agreed to the resumption of a portion of land between Bridge-road and Glebe Point-road. This will afford…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1912
5,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250
Municipal. Molong
Nominations for the extraordinary vacancy in the Municipal Council, caused by the resignation of Aid. W. M. Betts, closed yesterday. The nomination of Dr. A. E. Colvin,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Sunday School This Page Is Under the Auspices of the Council of the Sunday School Department. Sunday School Lesson. Sunday, March 10th, 1912. Jesus the Healer.—Mark 1:29-45; Matt. 4:23-25
Golden Text.—"Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."—Matt. 8:17. Introduction. Our lesson to-day continues the study of Christ's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No British Favors for the Mayor
Animated scenes marked the proceedings in connection with the election of the Mayor of Limerick. There were three candidates—Councillor T. Ryan (the outgoing mayor), Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →No Salary for Dublin's Lord Mayor
Yet another discussion arose at the meeting of the Dublin Corporation on the vexed question of the Lord Mayor's salary, and by the arrow margin of one vote, thirty-six to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Cowan Copped. For Selling Prawns in the Street. Concerning a Curious Council By-law
The anomaly existing in connection with a number of City by-laws has been repeatedly dealt with by this paper, and the most glaring example of inconsistency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blackguard Bennett. Ex-mayor, Town Clerk, and Local Pooh Bah. Seduces a Singleton Sis Under Sixteen. "I Am a Blackguard and Scoundrel," He Whines. a Holy Hypocrite Harpooned. Gay Grandfather Gets Two Years
Singleton is by way of being a town of wowsers, and the bucolic residents there observe Sunday with the puritanical reverence which characterised the days of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disgraceful "Digs." Run by the Salvarmy. Good Gonge Gone From Goulburn Street. Ramshackle Tin Rooms at 7/6 per Why Does the City Council Permit Such Indecent Dens?
If any person wishes to get rich quickly in Sydney just now, he might do a great deal worse than open a lodging-house in one of the byways off the main streets of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bringing Aldermen to Book
Naremburn Ward is represented in the Willoughby Council by Aid. Dickson, Molesworth, and Burrell, At the recent Mayoral election. Ald. Dickson wits a candidate, and his two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Systems Compared. Alderman's Impressions of Melbourne
Alderman R. C. Hagon who accompanied the Lord Mayor, Sir Allen Taylor, on his holiday visit to Tasmania and Victoria, closely observed the street cleansing system of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Municipal Bowls. Katoomba Green and Council. Katoomba
The question of the municipalisation of the recently-formed. Katoomba Bowling Green is now receiving the attention of the civic authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Roadmaking Machinery for Namoi Shire
Machinery supplied by Arthur Leplastrier and Co., Sydney, and referred to on page 7…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drank Friar's Balsam. a Mayor to the Rescue
Benjamin Baxter had been complaining of suffering from face-ache, so his wife got him some Friar's Balsam, which he promptly drank and began foaming at the mouth and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City Council As Slum Landlord
The City Council is drawing rent for the two underground dwellings marked x…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipal Paradoxes
"A Wearer of Hatpins" writes:—It seems to me, just a simple lover of ordinary cleanliness, a strange thing to see our City Fathers and Health Officers amusing themselves, as they…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Municipal Election. the Waverley Vacanot
The election to fill the extraordinary vacancy in the Waverley Municipal Council caused by the resignation of Dr. Savage resulted in Mr. J. C. Kershaw being returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last Week's Storm. Damage at Katoomba Municipal Paths
KATOOMBA, Sunday.--The damage caused by the recent thunderstorms to the municipal swimming baths in course of erection was much greater than at first estimated. The whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Randwick Municipality. Election of Aldermen
Last night the pall to fill the vacancies created by the resignation of several Randwick aldermen were announced. Some weeks ago the council arrived at an impasse during…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shire and Municipal
Mr, E. Horler, of Dungog, has been appointed town clerk at Singleton; and Mr. J. K. Clancy. of Nyngan, was chosen from several applicants as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Gutter Argument. Leichhardt Aldermen at Variance
The business of the Lelchhardt Council meeting last night included several complaints concerning the deplorable state of the gutters in the municipality…
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