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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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About 10 o'clock od Tuesday night. after a lot of ordinary business and reports had been dealt with, the Mayor of Waverley, Alderman Barracluff, called upon the Town Clerk to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The ordinary meeting of this council, was held on wednesday. Present: President Lawson and Councillors Cranston, Whitling, Lowe, and Firth. An apology…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Furse stated this afternoon that he proposed to ask the Lord Mayor for space at the Municipal Fish Markets to sell meat killed by union slaughtermen, and to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After the council meeting at Prarramatta on Monday evening, Mayor J. H. Graham entertained his fellow-aldermen and the Press reporters in his room. The only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bondi Beach chairs were again discussed at the Waverley Council meeting last night on the receipt of a letter from Mr. Thomas, lessee of the chairs, asking that certain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The question of enlarging the cable-carrying tunnel which is being excavated under the harbor between Longnose Point, Balmain, and Greenwich, so as to provide for a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The question was raised at the last North Sydney Council meeting as to whether the council had committed itself detrimentally in its choice of a guroage destructor, some time ago…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At last night's meeting of the Waverley Council a letter was received from the Bondi District Ratepayers Association in reference to the proposed increase in. term fares,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—I again crave space to reply to a letter of Mr. Cowan's appearing in your issue of 25th ult. I should not have replied had Mr. Cowan simply stuck to his guns and tried to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Arbitration is a failure; it wastes time, and is very expensive," said Alderman Dengate at the Granville Council meeting last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"I hope," said Mr. F.E. Winchcombe in the Legislative Council yesterday, in dealing with the announcement in the Governor's Speech respecting the Arbitration Act. "that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, Sir Francis Suttor presiding, the secretary reported that the country societies had taken up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After formal business bad been transacted in the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. Buzacott moved the customary address-in-reply to the Governor's Speech. He congratulated the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. C. T. Ferguson (chairman of the Council), presided at the monthly meeting of the N.S.W.A.A.A. on Thursday at the Sports Club. Consideration was given to the mail votes forwarded by the A.A.U. of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Randwick Council has decided to negotiate for a £50.000 loan. On the motion of Alderman Down. [?] by Alderman Clarke It was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The question of electric light for North Sydney was freely discussed at the meeting of the local council last night. Ald. Clark moved:-- That a conference of local municipalities. be again…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following committees were appointed at the Prospect and Sherwood Council meeting on Tuesday:—Works: The whole council. Finance: The whole council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Austin, 43, a sewer contractor, and an alderman of Wickham, has been missing from his home since February 27. His wife received a letter from him on February 28,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Enfield Council has decided to take action against drovers for breaches of the regulations relating to the hours and routes for driving stock within the municipality. In…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Meadowbank and Weat Ryde Progress Association is bent upon getting the best results from local government. At the last meeting it carried a resolution to ask Mr. W…
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