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Sydney · Council & local affairs
4,642 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 233
Some weeks age several of the aldermen at Botany Council commented very severely on what was stated to be a breach of contract on the part of the city council in the public light…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A motion, discussed at the meeting of the North Sydney Council on Tuesday, suggests that the question of an electric lighting supply for the municipality has not yet been settled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A new method of obtaining cash has been discovered at Alexandria in connection with the permanent improvement works being carried out on Bourke road with loan money…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Crown Solicitor (Mr. Dashwood), accompanied by Mr. H. A. Shierlaw (of the Crown Solicitor's Office), wilt leave for Melbourne to-morrow, taking with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The London County Council is being asked to provide a cinder track for running and cycling at Parliament Hill Fields…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The conference at Newcastle, called by the Mayor (Alderman H. M. Sheddon), has affirmed the desirability of establishing a Greater Newcastle under municipal control. It may…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When the Municipal Fish Markets were opened in the Haymarket three to four years ago it was stated by those in authority that the fish would be sold to the highest bidder,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Will you kindly grant me space in your columns to draw attention to the injustice the City Council employees are being subjected to through the unjustifiable delay of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bathurst stales, that his Shire Council has decided to purchase a roadmaking plant to cost £750. in the face of strenuous opposition. He asks how…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new council chambers erected by the Abercrombie (Rockley) Shire Council were formally opened on Saturday last by the president, Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A communication was read at the Bankstown Council meeting last night from the Public Works Department declining to send an officer to examine the accounts and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BLACKTOWN.—The shire council has struck a rate of 1d in the £. The assessors' valuations were referred back for further consideration. BYRON BAY.—A letter was read at Tuesday's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alderman Clark, the "father" of the North Sydney Council. sympathises with Mr. Dobble and other re[?] of Neutral Bay, who complain of the [?] made by the North Shore…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the last meeting of the Warringah Shire Council information was received from the Works Department, stating that the endowment had been fixed at [?] in the £. For the previous triennial period it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The Land" has on its staff an Expert at Searching for Names and Addresses of Owners of Land. Councils desiring to have their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Following upon a statement by the Mayor (Ald. E. E. Collins) with respect to the municipalities' representation on the Municipal and Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The result of the ballot for the organising committee of the Labour Council was:—Mrs. Kennedy (Tent and Tarpaulin Makers'), Messrs. G. Allen (Bakers'), H. Boyd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. W. G. Spence, M.H.R., was welcomed at the Labor Council last night. Mr. Spence remarked that closer federations of unions made for solidarity. He felt that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Christopher Joseph Ward, 28, was charged, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the Water Police Court yesterday with misappropriating cheques amounting to £65 10s 4d, the property of the Vaucluse council, between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further particulars of the interview between the Sultan and the Grand Council state that Nora[?] for Foreign Affairs, explained that there was little hope of…
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