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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1923

3,919 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 196

Penrith Council Cleaning Out Water Pipes a Challenge

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 7

The regular monthly meeting of Penrith Council was hold on Tuesday evening, when there were presont: The Mayor (Ald. D. Fitch) ana Aldermen…

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Another Punt for George's River Council Will Wait

Evening News · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 2

Another little punt wouldn't do us any harm! This seems to be the opinion of settlers near the George's River. In the…

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Retired Gracefully. Merrylands Town Hall Question. Council Acts Wisely

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 11

The proposal by Prospect and Sherwood Council to resume a portion of the main Merrylands Town Hall for official purposes, raised the ire of many of the…

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Subsidy for the Band Council Grants £25. a Legal Opinion

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 2

Penrith Band has been successful in its endeavors to obtain increased subsidy from the council. The matter came up at Tuesday's meeting of tho…

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Bought and Paid For. Site for Council Chambers. New Considered Unsuitable

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 11

For the erection of new Council Chambers, Baulkham Hills Council, last year, decided to purchase a site along the Showground-road. That decision…

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Big Hydro Scheme Electric Power for the North Conference at Armidale County Council to Be Formed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1923 · page 8

A conference of delegates from all local governing bodies in the north yesterday decided to form a County Council in in order to undertake hydro-electric and railway development schemes…

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Electricity for Winter City Council Project

The Sun · Sunday 18 February 1923 · page 2

Consideration will be given at a meeting of the City Council on Tuesday to a proposal that provision should be made for additional high tension…

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The Bumbles of Manly Seaside Beauty Spoiled by Aldermen—Foul Lagoon Should be Lovely Lake What Residents Have to Suffer

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 February 1923 · page 3

The fact that Manly is a thriving place and a beautiful marine suburb is due to luck or the goodness of God, and not in the least to astute…

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Lane Cove Council Engineer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 10

Mr. H. Lenney, engineer of Lane Cove Council, has resigned, Mr. G. Dallas has been appointed temporary engineer…

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The County Council Movement

Evening News · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 4

Since the inception of the New States' movement, the "News" has been the only metropolitan paper that has maintained a consistent, critical,…

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Proposed Rose Bay Municipality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1923 · page 10

At the last meeting of the Rose Bay-Bondi Progress Association, the secretary was instructed to write to the secretary of the Bellevue Hill Association, and also the…

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Willoughby Roads Aldermen's Explanations

The Sun · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 11

At last night's meeting of the Willoughby Council alderman severely criticised certain statements that had appeared in a morning paper in which…

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Kocarah Aldermen Receive a Bouquet

Evening News · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 10

Bouquets of bricks—metaphorical, of courac—are nothing unusual to aldermen. So that when the genwine article…

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City Council Contract

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 9

The Lord Mayor and members of the electricity supply committee of the City Council have been endeavouring to elucidate various matters regarding the proposed City Council contract,…

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"Straight Cut" Elizabeth-Street Extension Lord Mayor's Opinion

The Sun · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 11

"The question is purely one for the council to deal with remarked the Lord Mayor (Alderman Gilpin) this morning, when asked whether the…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before Sir Wm. Cullen, C.J., Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice James.) Soldier Settler's Rates. Adjungbilly Shire Council v Oliver

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 7

This was an appeal in the form of a special case from a decision of his Honor Judge Bevan, in the District Court, in August last, entering a verdict for the defendant in an…

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B.h. Co.'s Works Conciliation Council

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 5

At a meeting the Statutory Conciliation Committee, presided over by Mr. Justice Edmonds yesterday afternoon, the proposed wages and working…

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Appeal Fails Opera House Case I Privy Council Judgment

Evening News · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 8

Mr. D R Hall [?] for Mr. Rofe to-day received a cable with reference to the Privy Council appeal in the came of Rofe v Futher reading:—…

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Municipal Markets. Soldier Settlers' Complaints

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 8

A complaint has been made by ex-soldiers on the land to the State executive of the R.S.S.I. League that they cannot obtain floor space at the Sydney Municipal Markets for…

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