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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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At this week's meeting of the Auburn Council was read a letter from the Newtown Council, asking the Mayor to convene a public meeting "to discuss the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The popular idea that wrinkles are caused merely by the passing of years is but one of the many fallacies which are tacitly accepted by the average woman without thought or question…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Regular meeting Tuesday. Present: The President (Councillor Lowe), Councillors Whitling, Lawson, Brown, Cranston, Firth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. R. K. Manning, instructed by Messrs. J.A. I. Perry and Dent, appealed on behalf of the Council of the municipality of Windsor, for a decree declaring that the sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Alderman Cox did not mince matters in his denunciation of the management of the Municipal Fish Markets in his article of last Sunday. If all he says about their management…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When the proposal to "follow the King" [?] obtaining from intoxicants during the war cams before Canterbury Council, the Mayor (Alderman Wilson) said:—"As a matter of fact,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When a letter from Newtown Council asking aldermen to follow the example of the King was read at Annandale Council last night Alderman Smith said he hoped the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is a general movement among the municipal and shire councils in New South Wales in advocacy of abstinence from intoxicating liquors during the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Sydney water police court on Friday. Charles Eagan-Lee was remanded to Tumbarumba on a charge of having stolen between August 31 and September…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Oxide, Ltd., v Lahmann and others. Dr. Brissenden said that the first-named [?]e, which was an appeal by defendant against the assessment found by the jury in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was bound to come! The Sydney Labor Council suggests that the Necessary Commodities Commission be a permanent institution. That is to say,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The drafting of a Greater Melbourne Bill is practically complete. The bill will probably provide for a directly elected Greater Melbourne Council of thirty members…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Mr. John D. Fitzgerald's letter in reply to mine re Greater Sydney and municipal reform is scarcely what one would expect from a lawyer. I think that he gives the case away,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some idea of the increase that has taken place during the last two years in the cost of labor and roadmaking material was given at last night's meeting of the Bankstown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the consideration of the Finance Committee's report at the City Council last evening Aid. W. P. M'Elbone, vlce-chairman asked, as a matter of privilege to be allowed make some…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"You leave me alone. You are always satisfying and snuffling about what the ex-Mayor did. I don't want you continually picking at me," exclaimed Alderman Brewer (ex-Mayor)…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At last night's meeting of the City Council, the Lord Mayor Informed Aid. Lawrence that since January, 1910, to date, a sum of £117,321 had been paid to Noyes Bros, for electrical…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Lord Mayor gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the following contributions to the Patriotic Fund: Already acknowledged. plus 7/ acknowledged short, Warringah Patriotic Fund, £197,639/8/9: employees…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →This council met on Thursday. Present: President Schwebel, Councillors Roberts, Higgins, Hellmrich, Chapman, James, Best aud Ramsay. The President…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regular meeting Wednesday. Present: The President (Councillor Pringle), Councillors Best, Pye, Lalor and Angus. The President, in a minute, stated that…
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