What Is a Mayor?
Most people will confess to having a very hazy idea as to what powers and responsibilities a mayor or president possesses. His social duties as chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1923
3,919 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 196
Powers of Municipal Council
"Subscriber" writes: I am a grazier, owning freehold land, with a frontage to a creek, which is my only permanent water supply for stock on part of my property…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheogo District Council
A meeting was held in the Pinnacle Hall on Saturday, the 27th January, with the object of forming a District Council of branches in the surrounding district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"No Double Loss" Water Meter Regulation Lord Mayor's Views
Referring to a statement appearing in a morning paper that indignation meetings were to be held in the suburbs consequent upon a decision by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Council Employment Former Hands Engaged
During the past few months the general manager of the electricity department at the Town Hall. (Mr. Forbes Mackay) has been compelled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CITRUS-GROWERS. Queensland Advisory Council
At a meeting of the Queensland Citrus-Growers' Advisory Council in Brisbane last week, the following officers were elected for the current year;…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →UP 500 Per Cent. Shire Rates Byron Bay
There is great conservation at Brunswick Heads owing in the inercase at the shire rates as a result of the revaluations made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wonthaggi Tribunal's Power Privy Council Decision Quoted
The Wonthaggi dispute was again brought up at yesterday's sitting of the Coal Tribunal, and the suggestion put forward that, by a former judgment of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fish Trade. The New Regime. City Council Market
The City Council, acting on the recommendation of the ex-Lord Mayor (Alderman W. P. M'Elhone), purchased the Redfern Fish Market on the passing by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grand Opera House End of Privy Council Appeal
Mr. D. R. Hall, solicitor, has to-day received private advice from his London agents that the Privy Council appeal, Rofe v. Fullers, has been finally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Municipal Jottings. Round About the Councils
At a recent mooting of Kogarah Council the sanitary contractor applied for an increase of 1d per week per pan. The council decided not to entertain the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mayor Resigns. Alderman Auohterlonie Elected Acting Mayor
The Mayor (evidently smarting over the result of the discussion) formally tendered his resignation of office. He said they had evidently lost confidence in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mayor Resigns Overseer's Job Council Disagrees
The Mayor of Dundas (Alderman Greenwood) resigned when the council reinstated the council overseas (Mr. Mosa), whom he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Excluding the Press Aldermen Annoyed
Early in the week the Lord Mayor (Ald. Gilpin) lauded tho Australian press for its general sincerity and honesty…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Insignificant Place" Alderman's Opinion of Bexley "You Must Withdraw"
"Bexley is an insignificant little placer," said Alderman Colebourne at the meeting of the St. George County Council last night, when a minute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Council
The Granville Council met on Tuesday. There were present:—The Mayor (Ald. H. A. Membrey), Ald. Lane, McGill, Percival, Baldock, Epps, Townsend, Swift,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eastwood Council
The Mayor (Ald. Featherstone) presided at Wednesday night's meeting of Eastwood Council. There were present: Ald. Dunlop, Woodford, Warren, Ball,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Rabbit Problem Solved by Municipal Council
The Cowra Municipal Council has got to get a move on—so said the stock inspector of the Carcoar Pastures Protection Board, in a letter to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Switching On." Mayor Objects to Procedure
This afternoon Wentworthville will be astir. The official," switching on" of the electric light is the cause. Military sports and other competitions will…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Overseer Suspended. Mayor Resigns. Dundas Hot Air
Not for many years past has there been such an outburst of hostility displayed by aldermen towards the action of a Mayor, as that evinced at last…
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