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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1921

3,959 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 198

shire and Municipality Legal Opinions. RATING. Rating Municipal Quarry in Shire

The Land · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 12

Q.—An adjoining Municipal Council secured a quarry within the boundaries of this Shire, from which it quarries limestone for road works…

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Rockdale Council

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

At last night's meeting of Rockdale Council it was decided to strike a rate of 5½d in the £ for 1921. The street lighting rate was fixed at 1d in the £…

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The County Council

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

At a meeting of the St. George County Council on Wednesday night it was noticed that a good deal of time was taken up…

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City Council Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

The City Council electric light plant Is in a good position' with regard to coal. There are at present 10,401 tons stacked at the powerhouse, and a further 10,255 at the reserve…

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The County Council

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 5

A meeting of the St. George County Council was held in the Kogarah Council Chambers on Wednesday night, Alderman Brown presiding…

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Council's Divided Control

The Propeller · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

The question of the upkeep of Rocky Point Road, which divides Rockdale and Kogarah, Municipalities, was again brought up at last night's meeting of…

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Election of New Council

The Land · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 12

All the members of the Erina Shire Council recently resigned as the outcome of an adverse report from the Commissioner appointed…

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" Ignoble Strife " Sir T. Henley's Talent Lord Mayor's Reply

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 7

"I really believe that it would be in the best interests of the city over whose civic destiny I now have the honor to preside if Sir Thomas…

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Trials of Mothers The Endowment Bill Lord Mayor's Attitude

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 7

The Lord Mayor declined politely but very firmly this morning to call a public meeting in the Town Hall In order to urge tho Government to pass…

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Where Are the Sweeps? Waverley Denials Local Mayor's Viows

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

The local Mayor (Alderman Kavenagh) backs up, the repudiation of the Federal authorities that any congestion postal business at Waverley is due…

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Glad He Didn't Lord Mayor and Sir T. Henley

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 7

The Lord Mayor, Aid. Lambers, said to-day he was glad Sir Thomas Henley didn't call on him as it relieved him of an [?]…

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Council News. CORRESPONDENCE. Rating Crown Leases

The Land · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 12

"Subscriber" asks:—Would you mind informing me what portion of the shire rate I must pay on a Crown Lease taken up on June 20,…

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Tammany and Despotism Sir T. Henley's Protest. Will Not Visit Lord Mayor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 6

A short, hut lively, debate took place between members of the Water aud Sewerage Board yesterday, after the ordinary meeting. The board was sitting in committee, and…

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Premier and Party Farewell Dinner Lord Mayor on Finance Mr. Storey's Speech

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

It was a truly democratic dinner that was tendered by the Ministerial Party to the Premier (Mr. Storey) at Parliament House last night, to enable…

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Want Parliament to Meet Women Ask Lord Mayor's Help Be Graciously Declines

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 6

Several women's association want the Lord Mayor in [?] his advent to office by getting Parliament to meet. They told him at the Town Hall…

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Allied Council to Meet. London, January 5

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 5

A Paris telegram announces that Britain assents to a meeting of the Council of the Allies on January 19…

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Unemployed. State Government's Failure. a Labour Council Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 9

The failure of the State Labour Government to carry out its election promises, particularly in regard to finding employment for those who were in need of it, was the cause…

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N.S.W. Grown Lands. Soldiers' Preference Blocks. Group Purchases Areas. Land District of Tumbarumba, and Tumbarumba Shire

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

County of Selwyn, parish of Mannus [?] blocks [?] acres to [?] capital value[?] to [?] survey for [?] nearest town…

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The Supreme Council. London, January 5. Tho "Petit Parisien" says that the Supreme

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 5

Council will meet between January 10 and 15. Marshal Pilsudski (Poland) will attend. it is believed that the Allied Premiers' Conference will discuss a scheme of foreign trading by…

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Municipalism in Literature

Evening News · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 6

The Town Clerk of sydney has just issued his annual report for the year 1919. It is a year overdue, but no one who reads it will grudge the amount of time which went to its compilation. It is studded with beautiful phrases and sentences an emphatic as they are long. The invective is not perhaps as stinging as it is…

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