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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman A. A. C. Cocks, M.L.A.) is making a public appeal for volunteers to assist the companies to maintain the supply of gas…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"What Is tho council going to do about the gas strike?" asked Alderman Griffin at the meeting of the electric light committee of the City Council yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →One of Mr. Beeby's proposals for reform in the State's financial administration—if I understand him aright—is that the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A great deal at conjecture is being bararded in various quarters as to whether the strike will be extended to the coal industry. The allied occupations are the coal lumpers, coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Leichhardt Council Chambers last night, when, for want of a quorum, no council meeting was held, the Mayor (Alderman Treadgold) showed the few aldermen who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lord Mayor (Alderman Coo[?]) has determined to take specific action regarding the gas strike. He has called a public meeting for the Town Hall at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lord Mayor (Ald. Arthur Cocks, M.L.A.) last evening briefly discussed the situation. "The subject I am concerned about," he said, "Is the effect to the community of being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday.--The Improvements Committed of the London County Council recommends the council to grant to Earl Grey for £3000 per annum an option for two years of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The toesin was this afternoon sounded by the Lord Mayor. He has sent out the rallying cry, and to-morrow the citizens of Sydney will have an opportunity to do something to show…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The situation this morning was unchanged. The gas companies and the Gas Employees Union are sitting back, waiting of the other one (union or company) to move. No work…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fair and reasonable proposal from the Government for the settlement of the dispute having been refused by the men concerned, and the welfare of the general public being jeopardised by the non-supply of gas for the community, I, is head…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When spoken to last night about the statements attributed to him by the Mayor of North Sydney legarding the municipalisation of electric lighting services, Mr. Nesbitt, town…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Another stage of the squabble in the North Sydney Council was reached last night when, with a full attendance of aldermen, Ald. Whatmore moved the following motion,--…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →If there are any of our Parramatta Citizens who are willing to [?]ist in any way to try and bet the deplorable state of things…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter was sent to the Premier by the Lord Mayor:-- I am convening a meeting in connection with the gas strike, to be held in the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lord Mayor had a busy morning yesterday. At 12.30 his motor-car rolled up to the Town-hall steps…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Labor Council of New South Wales, today, through its executive, issued a manifesto to all other unions to refrain from taking part in the gas strike. The manifesto is as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When the action of the Manly men was told to Mr. Farrell, president of the Gas Employees' Union, he descended upon the Lord Mayors head like a ton of bricks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lord Mayor, after this afternoon's meeting, went to the Kent-street works of the Australian Gaslight Company, and, in the [?]cular, "peeled off" in Mr. Lukey's room. He…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Referring to the statements of the Mayor of North Sydney (Alderman Walker), published in the "Herald" yesterday, in reference to the motives that have actuated the City…
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