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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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The Lord Mayor stated last evening [?] certain section of aldermen were de[?]be[?] endeavouring to make his position as [?] as possible in regard to the settlement [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The City Council passed a resolution, prior to adjournment, that the sum of £1000 be spent in giving temporary employment to deserving cases selected from each ward…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[?] reported recently in the "Evening News," in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When the breakaway Civic Reformers in the City Council voted with the Labor aldermen to oust Alderman M'Elhone they conferred a favor upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A letter from the Local Government Association, asking for an expression of opinion as to the continuance or non-continuance of the 44-hour working week, was read at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Lord Mayor (Aid Gilpin) yesterday met a deputation of the Civil Ambulance executive, which asked the City Council to place premises at the disposal of the society for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An intimation was received at the finance committee yesterday from the Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department stating that the North Shore bridge tax of [?]d in the £…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Lord Mayor (Alderman Gilpin) has referred to the works committee the report of Mr. G. H. Godsell (president), and Henry E. Budden, who were nominated by the Institute…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleging that the recent shire elections were illegal, in that the supplementary shire rolls had not been lawfully compiled and displayed for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Limbless and maimed soldiers are being boycotted in the purchase of flowers for sale at the Martin Place kiosks, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It would cost the City Council £5754 extra per annum if its employees received their wages weekly, instead of fortnightly, as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The City Council, in affording relief to the unemployed during the Christmas season, employed 10 men for 10 days, temporarily, between December…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Between 30 and 40 citizens, with men slightly in the majority, met in the Glebe Council Chamber last night in response to a notice by the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lord Mayor stated yesterday that there was no scarcity of men in the building operations conducted by the City Council. "There are," he pointed out, "large…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At a meeting of the Municipal Officers' Association last night. Mr. T. C. Maher referred to the recent awards obtained in the Federal courts concerning the conditions of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Manly Council has decided to reduce the general rate to /[?]—one farthing lower than the previous year. It was decided to strike a loan rate of a farthing. The general rate on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Sydney Municipal Library Will be reopened this morning, when the book-borrowing system so successfully adopted in American…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a meeting of the finance committee of the Glebe Council last night Mr. Archibald Davidson, who claims that he was duly elected an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ordinary meeting of the Hurstville Council, was held on 11th inst. Mayor's Minute. Vehicle for Sanitary Inspector…
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