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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The towns along the Macquarie River are taking" up the subject of water conservation very seriously, and a conference of all municipalities and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CASINO, Monday,--A suggestion involving the variation of the terms of expenditure of the Federal Government's £500,000 gift to the shire and municipal councils for repatriation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Government proclamation was issued last night imposing the travelling restrictions upon the municipal areas of Dubbo, Forbes, Goulburn, Grenfell, Junee, Jerilderle, Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mayor of Manly (Alderman Ried), is proposing that the council should take stops to have workmen's homes erected in Manly, said that when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In discussing the necessity for a new courthouse at Manly, the Mayor (Alderman Reid) stated at the council meeting that the present building was too…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the casting vote of the Lord Mayor Alderman R.W. Richards, the City Council last night adopted a rate of 4¼d in the [?] for the current year. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For over four and a half hours the battle of the rates was waged in the City Council last night. Aldermen ranged in their choice of a rate for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE. Tuesday.--Some time age the Newcastle Municipal Council invited tenders for the supply of cement for the reconstruction of Hunter Street. All the tenderers quoted [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Of the electrical current made available to the City Council from the Raliway Commissioners' station at White Bay, 60 per cent, is utilised at the Castlereagh-street and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →There was a lively debate at a meeting of the City Council in Committee of General Purposes last night upon the statement of eatimated revenue and expenditure for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An inquiry into Blackheath's claim for a municipality was opened at Blackheath School of Arts last week by Mr. Fitzgerald, special commissioner on behalf of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tenders closed yesterday with the Board of Fire Commissioners for the [?] of [?] lately occupied as the Mosman Fire Station, in Myagah-road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Paris correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette" describes President Wilson as extremely weary and disillusioned as the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A feature of yesterday's municipal elections was the strenuous effort of most of the towns to secure greater representation by the Labor Party,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the last meeting of Hurstville Council Mayor Field reported that he had received a registered letter from the Local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The president of the Sutherland Shire Council (Cr. W. R. Ainsworth), has issued a circular asking for suggestions from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As [?] was this afternoon [?] Wattesuw, [?]General [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The usual quarterly meeting of the District Council was held in the Shire Hall, Maclean. The president, Mr. T. McMahon, occupied the chair, and there were also present Messrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual meeting of the above council was held at Culcairn on April 8, The president, Mr. H. J. Moss, presided, and a moderate attendance of delegates were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A recent issue of the "Bathurst Times" says: "Last night the Cowra Municipal Council dealt with nine applications for…
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