Council Not Guilty. Union's Statements Incorrect
Blacktown Council, at Tuesday's meeting received the following letter from the secretary of the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union:—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1924
5,225 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250
Releasing Cattle From a Pound. Council Offers Reward
At Tuesday afternoon's meeting of Blacktown Chire Council the overseer (Mr T. W. Jago) reported, as follows:- The overseer reported: I beg to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →County Council Abandoned Scheme Revived a Big Undertaking
Some few years ago a scheme to form a County Council to embrace the Hawkesbury and Nepean districts was abandoned owing to innumerable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxes and Spending Town Improvement Area. Discussion in Council
There is a lot of legal "dry hash" about council's annual resolutions adopting the various rates. Of course, the dreary formulae in which they are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Poundkeeper's Troubles Alleged Assault. No Affair of Council's
A poundkeeper's lot can be scarcely more happy than a policeman's, if one may judge from a report presented at Tuesday's meeting of Blacktown Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water Main Extension. £37,400 to be Expended. Council Mollified
At its meeting on Monday night, Cabra-Vale Council received a letter from the Water and Sewerage Board with reference to council's application on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stray Stock Troubles. Pound Broken Into. Impounding Officer Assaulted. Council Officer Reward
While it is recognised that an impounding officer will never be voted the most popular man in the district, such a necessary individual should at least be able…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tributes to Lenin by Labor Council The Working-Class State -- "A Beacon Bright to all the World"
"Then raise this scarlet standard high, Beneath its shade we'll live or die. Though cowards flinch and traitors…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Buying a Safe. Municipal Problem. a Year's Negotiations
The Lord Mayor has convened a special meeting of the City Council for Monday after noon, on a requisition of five aldermen, to consider tho purchase of a safe for the city…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Councils Shirk Duty in Child Welfare Municipalities Should Pay Half Cost of Baby Clinics, Says Mr. Innes-noad. Civic Pride Lacking
"Looking through the December number of 'National Health,' an English magazine. I was struck by the helpful spirit displayed by municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Civic Labor Party Hails Labor Daily Ald. Burke Answers Newspaper Abuse -- Labor in Civic Affairs -- Con. Ditions of Council Workers. Electricity Equipment
"Earnestly and sincerely speaking for the party I represent, I congratulate the present A.L.P. executive for giving us a Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Real Council Unique Land Sale at Kogarah Mr. Ley Dedicates New Park
Kogarah Municipal Council has the reputation of being the most businesslike and practical in N.S.W. It justified Itself yesterday afternoon by an unique…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Menace of the Sand-sheik Chronic Nuisances of Our Beaches and Promenades Clothes of Beau Brummel, But No Brains Urgent Need of Police and Council Attention
The customary conception of a sheik, as we know him by the movies, is that of a man whose distinguishing characteristic is gallantry, leavened with all the other factors which go towards the make-up of manly man. But all America got a rude shock…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Act Not To-day To-morrow Comes This 18 Motto of Aldermen--lord Mayor Acts--whips Up the Council. Delays are Dangerous
A favorite way of shelving problems that present themselves from time to time to City aldermen is to defer the matter pending "a visit of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In Other Words Mr. Mackay's Report Aldermen's 'Hold—up'
In tho course of a report to the City Council's electricity committee, Mr. Forbes Mackay, general manager of the electric supply,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City Council Wants Centennial Park
The city council will take over centennial park if the governments terms are favorable. "what will you offer" is the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Privy Council Appeal. London, Jan. 25
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the appeal in the matter of Verge v [?]us Somerville. [This was an appeal from a decision of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Kogarah Council Will Try Out Dictaphone
The Kogarah Council has decided to [?]allow a firm to instal a dictaphone[?] the Town Hall, free of cost, for three months and if satisfactory the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All Australian Bridge for Sydney Tender Should Not Go Outside Says Alderman--necessary Machinery Could Be Got. Force Cabinet's Hand
Now that the tenders for the Sydney Harbor bridge have been narrowed down to two and that they are from British firms, it behoves the people…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£120,000 WINDFALL Soldiers Benefit Under Grazier's Will Privy Council Decision
Returned soldiers in New South Wales will benefit to the extend of about £120,000 as the result of the week-end decision given by the Judical…
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