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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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After wandering through dirty and ill-kept thoroughfares in the city and suburbs, it is a pleasant surprise for the jaded traveller to come upon a municipality where clean street are the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The council has struck a general rate of 3d on the unimproved capital value of the land in the municipality…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wednesday last was nomination day for filling the vacancy in the Casino Council caused by the resignation of Alderman W. G. Simpson. Only one nomination was received,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →My Dear Boys and Girls,—Near to my home is a large house where they keep a young man to work about the place. Most every morning, about 6 o'clock or a little later, we hear him being aroused. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The more one sees of the Fruit Folly the more deeply impressed one becomes with the fatuous muddlehosdedness of those responsible for the costly bungle. And that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Sunday Evening.—The Cou[?] derman has decided Chat Sir Thomas Henry Hitching is suit to be an alderman. He was recently elected an alderman for[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alderman Thomas Magney, Mayor of Woollahra, writes:—I have now before me the Bill introduced by Mr. Griffith, on February 23, to create a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The City Council's electric light service balance-sheet for [?]ll shown a credit balance of £[?],710 [?] It is prop[?]ed to appropriate that amount as follows:—£[?]00 for writing off the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alderman F. L. Artieth, Mayor of the Glebe, writing in reference to the article on the condition of Parramatta-road, which appeared in the "Evening News" of March [?] says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. A. A. Patterson, [?] Turon Shire Engineer, is trying straw as a roadmaking factor. The idea has never before been tried in this State so far as Mr. Patterson knows…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The truisms that every cloud is silver-lined, every long lane eventually turns, and all bad luck must ultimately change, do not appear to apply to Perth. Otherwise, why the present infliction of civic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Justice Sir, without a jury, was engaged in the No. [?] Jury Court this morning in hearing a claim for £41 [?] the p[?] being the Municipal Council of Eithgow and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the business transacted at the last meeting of the Labor Council was tho appointment of the president (Mr. T. Miller) as delegate to the next Melbourne Eight-Hour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is danger in lifting poles, and, according to a witness at the City Coroner's Court this morning, one man or more is always likely to be injured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Though there is plenty of work before the Legislative Assembly to occupy attention, the Government is once, again far more interested is what the Legislative council is to do…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Justice Sly, without a jury, was today engaged in No. 2 Jury Court, with a claim for £61 9s 10d in respect of rates. The plaintiffs Were the municipal council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The city council appointed Mr. N. C. Podmore, of Coonamble, chief sanitary inspector. The council carried a resolution that the Government would be asked to appoint a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The town clerk of Balmain is experiencing a pleasant surprise at the cast with which he is getting in the rotes for the current year. Since February 4 nearly £10.000 has been paid, close on £6000 of which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In his report to the council, read to its last meeting, the auditor congratulated the Mayor and aldermen of Annandale on the exceptionally satisfactory condition of the finances of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. J. J. Sullivan, chairman of the Bathurst P.P. Board, who has been appointed one of the deputation to wait on the Minister for Agriculture next…
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