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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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In the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. Holman told the House that the Government had considered the Speaker's ruling as to certain amendments made by the Council in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The disagreement that has arisen between the two branches the Legislature in regard to vital principles of the Industrial Arbitration Bill came before the Legislative Assembly last…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The second-reading debate on the Saving Banks Amalgamation Bill was resumed in the Legislative Council last evening. Mr. Fosbery said he did not agree with some…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—In the interesting column contained in a recent issue of the "Herald" relative to local government matters your contributor, not being acquainted with the facts, in…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The Cabramatta and Canley Vale council has decided to co-operate with Prospect and Sherwood council in urging upon the Government the necessity of quadrupling the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →For some time past there have been complaints on the part of the ratepayers of Waverley concerning the valuations made in the last assessment of the ratable property…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →My Dear Boys and Girls,—Clontarf is a favourite picnic ground near Sydney. It is the spot where, many years ago, a bad man shot at and wounded the Duke of Edinburgh. Last Saturday week there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The alacrity with which the N.S. Wales State) Parliament passed a Bill providing for an increase in the salary of Members from £300 to £500 has prompted a suggestion that perhapss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is an agitation for increasing the pay to the workmen employed by the City Council, and Alderman Davoren, who is at the head of the movement, will move at the meeting of the council to-morrow night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The City Council has received several tenders for the supply and erection of a goods lift at the Municipal Stores, Hay-street. The finance committee has recommended that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Of the 67 carters employed by the Adelaide Municipal Corporation 64 were out on strike to-day for higher wages. The three loyalists to the council were protected by police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Victorian Government intends to compel insurance companies to bear half the cost of fire brigade maintenance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →QUIRINDI, Monday.--Mr. Adam John Swale, late clerk of Tamarang Shire Council, was this morning committed for trial at the next Maitland Circuit Court, charged with embezzling…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Minister for Works recently wrote to Mr. Cowan, president of the Manning Shire Council, asking for an expression of opinion on the day labour system…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shortly after 10 o'clock the Council received the report of the managers of the conference and adopted it. The Housing Bill, No. [?] was passed through all its stages, and the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a meeting of the Executive Council today the following appointments were approved:--Mr. W. F. Jago, to be appointed member of the Parramatta Licensing Court:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. D. Cowan, chairman of the Manning Shire Council, who was invited by Mr. Griffith some time ago to express an opinion with regard to the employment of day labor on the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →At the last shire council meeting at Tenterfield the president intimated that he intended suggesting to the next meeting, for council's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(At a special meeting of the Temora Farmers' Union on Saturday evening a number of resolutions were prepared for presentation to the annual conference, to be held during July…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The President took the chair at 4.30 p.m. BURSARIES ENDOWMENT BILL. This bill was received from the Assembly, and read a first time…
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