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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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METTAGONG, Tuesday.--In connection with the proposed acquisition by thw Sydney City Council of a municipal metal quarry, it has been suggested by the Mittagong Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The city surveyor reported to the works committee yesterday that he was not getting sufficient metal from the State quarries, and that there was also a serious shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the Port Pirie Council it was decided:-- That a deputation from the council wait on the Premier to urge on him the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a recent meeting of the Progress Association a number of the members spoke and moved in favor of attempting. to. form Wentworthville and Westmead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For about twenty years a municipality for Guild has been spoken about, and even on two occasions has been agitated for by public-spirited residents…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For the third time, despite the steady opposition of the Labour aldermen, the finance committee yesterday, by a majority vote, recommended the City Council to appoint Mr. E…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The proposal that the City Council should acquire Observatory Hill, which was first mooted nine years ago, was revived at yesterday's meeting of the finance committee of the City…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The remarks passed by Councillor Croft approving the decision of the Government not to turn Kuring-gai Shire into a municipality. or to form a separate municipality of 'C'…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Lord Mayor to-day referred to a protest published in the "Evening News" yesterday which he said "purported to be carried by some people…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There may be a good and sufficient reason for the refusal by the Lord Mayor of Sydney to allow the Returned Soldiers' League to have free use of the Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A meeting of the Daceyville branch of the A.L.P. broke up in disorder on Tuesday night. According to statements made at MacDonell…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clerks and their councils usually work in harmony, but a dispute has been dragging along for some months at Central Illawarra. For the past few years the council has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Water Board considered at its meeting yesterday the question whether it should pay city rates to the City Council, and whether the City Council should pay the board for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The correspondent of the "New york Times" in Washington reports that the case of Mr. Daniel O'Callnghan, Mayor of Cork, who came to America without a passport, has been again…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Another discussion over preference to returned soldiers occurred at yesterday's meeting of the finance committee of the City Council, and Labor aldermen bitterly condemned the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The finance committee yesterday decided to recommend the City Council to take the necessary steps to acquire possession of Observatory Hill, Dawes Point…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Minister for Me[?] (Mr M'G[?] and Alderman Lambert [?] conferred [?] times regarding the [?] of each…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Offers and suggestions regarding metal quarries are still being received by the City Council. At Tuesday's meeting of the works committee a letter was read from the town…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Call a city alderman a peach If you desire to please him c[?] and individually he likes peaches R[?] members of the City Council visited…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bexley aldermen are afraid that, unless they display vigilance, their powers in dealing with advertisement hoardings may be limited by the…
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