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The Lord Major reported to the City Council electricity supply committee yesterday that he had directed the Town Clerk to hold an inter-departmental investigation into charges…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Angry feeling was aroused at Alexandria Council last night, when an apparently harmless motion, conveying appreciation of the services…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lithgow A.L.P. has censured the Mayor (Ald. Pillans) and also Ald. Roy, both members of the branch, for voting against the restoration of the 44…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For weeks the Electricity Supply Committee of the City Council has been struggling through a voluminous report on the Electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aid. R. Pillans (Mayor of the town, president of the western miners, and the acknowledged leader, of the Labor Party in-Lithgow) and Aid. Roy were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Turnbull, Martin & Co., advise the following latest advices of Scottish Shire steamers:— The Berwickshire is due at Adelaide on March…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weird are the ways of officialdom. Alexandria Council wrote to the Railway Department on November…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The secretary of the Municipal Employees' Union made a request to the City Council that the men previously in the employ of the council who were put on for casual work at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"At a largely-attended meeting of [?] Croydon Progress Association," [?] the president (Mr. O'Shea) a resolution was carried…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Several [?] and municipal [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Greater Sydney scheme seems to the hanging fire. For some months an agreement seemed likely between the City…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the usual meeting on the 13th inst., the Mayor presided. Mayor's Minute. Two minutes were submitted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is a considerable difference of opinion amongst both the Citizens' and the Labour aldermen in regard to a recommendation that will come before the City Council on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A.F. asks:—Can a Shire Councillor be a member of the P.P Board and Land Board, and hold all the positions legally? Answer.—Mr. J. W. Manund (The Land's"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A lively incident took place at the last meeting of Hurstville Council, and many of those present imagined that a fight would take place. Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Decided distrust of Government methods was the predominant tone of the conference of representatives of local authorities of the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association has decided to hold a ballot of members employed at the City Council electric power-house…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annual meeting of the Grand Council of St. George Progress Associations was held on the 7th instant, at the Rockdale School of Arts, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Canadian Government has accepted a gift of three mares and two stallions from the English Shire Horse Society. The latter body hopes that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a meeting of the Macintyre shire council at Inverell (N.S.W.) last week, the proposals of the Minister for Lands (Mr. Wearne) for the treatment of…
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