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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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In Manly at the present time there is a diversity of opinion on the subject of leasing sites on the beach for amusement novelties. For years the council turned a deaf car to all enterprising showmen, and, no matter…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The "Sun" last week published, in effect, the resolutions passed by the secret meeting of the New South Wales Bar, held in the sporting atmosphere of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MOKEE.--At a meeting of the Muncipal Council a letter was received from the Director-General of Public Works, stating that the Minister was prepared to accept the tender of Messrs. Wilson and Sons for the erection…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mr. W. L. Paul, Maclatyre, via Barraba, writes:-"Barraba Shire Council intends to try to get a Government grant for Sheep Station Creek, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a violent scene at Auburn Council meeting last night, and matters reached a climax when ex-Mayor Lang and Alderman Pritchard left the council chambers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the last meeting of the Kyeamba (Wagga) Shire Council Mr. Chesterman, district surveyor, was present by instruction of the Minister for Lands. This was due to an old bone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A municipal storm burst over Auburn of Monday night's meeting of the council. An apparently innocent communication from the Department of Attorney-General and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lord Mayor has penned a minute regarding the conference at which the city surveyor was asked to elaborate the replies given to the questions asked by Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The failure of the three channels, constructed by the Government some years ago at a cost of nearly [?]100,000, to carry off the flood waters on March 8— when…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The following appointments were approved this afternoon at the meeting of the New South Wales Executive Council:— Extension of the soppe of the commission to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Municipal and Shire Councils' Employees' Wages Board will visit Lithgow on Thursday and Bathurst on the 26th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WENTWORTH.--The Municipal Council levied a rate of 4d in the £ on the unimproved land value, and fixed the water rate the same as last years. All committees were re-elected. The estimated revenue is £37516,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The meetings of the Auburn Council have been the scene of many quarrels between the aldermen. In the part few months, but the most exciting scene yet experienced took place at Monday's meeting. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Remarkable allegations were contained in a copy of a letter read to the North Sydney Council last night. it was forwarded to the council by the Director-General of Public…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr T. R. Bavin, sitting as a Royal Commission, continued into the question of Sydney's milk supply…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The Newcastle Municipal Council is to receive £2816 as the price, for surrendering the Botanic Reserve, near Waratah, to the Broken-hill…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →At a special meeting of the Newcastle Labour Council to-night, five motions were carried relating to the smelting industry of the Commonwealth. The principal motion…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →This was a claim in reference to a resumption by the City Council of certain property in George-street West, beyond the University, for road-widening purposes, the plaintiff being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The shopkeepers at Coogee are not going to take any chances with minicipal [?] and one day recently waited on the parks committee of the Handwick Council to voice…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The annual conference of the Local Government Engineers of Australasia opened yesterday in Sydney by the Lord Mayor is not an event which attracts much…
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