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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The parties, in conference, dealt with several technical matters, the principal of which was the checking of the lists of the "authorities" put in by the union organisers, and under…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,The municipal elections next month will give the local people an opportunity to elect a new Council under a wider…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The drinking fountain erected in Brennan Park, Bay-road. North Sydney, to the memory of the late Alderman C. A. Walker, formerly Mayor of North Sydney, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight petitions for the severance of areas from shires and the re-subdivision of riding boundaries are now awaiting consideration by the Victorian Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lord Mayor, in a minute to the health and works committees of the City Council, recommends that men discharged, because of cessation of work, from the electric light…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An estimated deficit of £4012 is foreshadowed by the Sydney City Council estimates; but considering that rates and other sources of revenue are expected to yield the huge total…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Lord Mayor has issued a minute in regard to preference in the engagement of municipal workmen. The minute states that, in conference with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Daily [?] petrograd corre-spondent says the [?] of the Council of Peasant Deputies is increasing. The procoedines [?] that the peasants possess greater…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In connection with preference and the discharging or the City Council employees, the Lord Mayor tins issued a minute. In the minute the following instructions are given:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tho Narembura Artamon, and Gore Hill Progress Associations have selected and oudorsed Aid. W. T. Dlekson and Aid. W. J. Shepherd (Naremburn Progress Association) and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A matter of moment to tenderers was discussed at the electric light committee's meeting yesterday. Tenders had been invited for the supply, delivery, and erection of an electrically…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tenders in connection with the supply, delivery, and erection of an electricallyoperated lift were considered yesterday afternoon by the electric lighting committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lord Mayor has issued a minute respecting the order in which employees should be dismissed from the Council's service. The policy, which has been repeatedly endorsed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a meeting of the sydney Labor Council last week a motion in favor of a shorter working day was carried, and it was decided to organise to that end…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The president of the United Laborers' Union (Mr. G. Waite) stated yesterday that a deputation from the union to the Lord Mayor (Ald. Meagher) had laid before him the position of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Kuring-gai Shire Council has decided to complete its section of the Lane Cove Road. The matter was decided at the last meeting of the council, when the president, Mr. W. K…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This council met on Thursday. Present: President P. A. James, Councillors Moore, Higgins. Chapman, Ramsay, Morris and Crittenden…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This council met on Friday. Present: Mayor kelly, Aldermen Douglass, Redshaw, Reeves, Anderson, Sutton, Whitfield. Summerbayes and Fitzroy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The polling in Lang Ward of the City Council on May 23 resulted in the election of Mr. R. W. Richards, an ex-alderman and exLord Mayor of Sydney, by a margin of 88 votes…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The administration of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund was attacked by Alderman Ogilvy at last night's meeting of the Manly Council. He moved:-"That the Acting…
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