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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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"One of the first essentials I think necessary to the good government of the city," said the Lord Mayor yesterday, "Is a new Building Act. That cannot be too strongly impressed upon…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,-I was rather amused to read in this week's "Argus" that Councillor Ramsay (president of the Hornsby Shire Council) stated, that the trouble-i.e.,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Associated Councils of the Churches in Great Britain and Germany, whose purpose is to foster more friendly relations, report a rapidly increasing membership…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Recently the Manly Life-saving Club applied to the local council for permission to use the naming seeds on the day of their annual surf carnival. The aldermen were asked to close…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →It will entirely remain with the ratepayers themselves at North Sydney next elections, which occur in February, whether the affairs of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quite a number of Parramatta aldermen are thinking of wooing other wards next February. It is stated that Alderman Waugh will seek the suffrages of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Alderman Vernon Wragge, of York, has a unique method of converting drunkards. Lost year he offered 20 habitual drinkers. £1 each if they were not convicted of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lord Mayor recounts among many startling thins, that the town clerk is not recognised as the general manager he should be, that he (the Lord Mayor) has reports…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The termination of the year is of very great importance in the local government world. It marks the beginning of the second triennial period since the Local Government Act of 1906…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Although the new Lord Mayor has not been in office very long, already he has shown that he has no intention of being a mere figurehead, but is determined that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A peculiar position has arisen in connection with the election of Alderman. Moss to the vacancy that was created in the North Sydney Council by the death of Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alderman Ian Brown Bossloy, Mayor of Liverpool, died at his residence, Carllsie, Northumborland-street, Liverpool, on Sunday, afternoon, after a brief illness, aged 71 years…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The [?] Brown [?] Sunday [?] He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Building's" journalism is of the practical order. It is not only talk, more talk, and still talk, but when an objective calls for it we take off our coat, and beat our pen into a battle-axe". We consider that is the journalism that draws its ideals from twentieth-century civilization. When we called for reform in the matter of the Federal capital, our Editor undertook six tours of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a largely-attended meeting of the Labour League nine pledged candidates were selected to contest nine Beats in the municipal elections…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Those who are keenest upon finding a means to reduce the cost of living and look upon municipal markets as valuable in that dil cotion must admit that the following remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Little interest is being shown in the triennial elections to far as the Municipality of Leichhardt is concerned. No public movement has been made by any section to set up any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I must object to this method of finance," said Alderman Hastings at last night's meeting of the Leichhardt Council. "I say you cannot make use of temporary loan funds to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A point of order, which, however, was not sustained by the Mayor (Alderman Thornley), was taken at the Marrickville Council meeting last night, because, a speaker…
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