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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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Paddington Municipal Council last night, by 7 votes to 5. adopted a mayor's minute recommending that £50 he voted for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How seriously aldermen of the City Council view the charges against certain tenderers of the practice of adding amounts to their tenders which are afterwards "whacked" up between the unsuccessful ones, was evidenced yesterday, when the Electricity Supply Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]-Bellevue progress Association wrote Woollahra Council last night asking if it intended to press [?] repeat of the Act which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The electricity supply committee of the City Council had before it yesterday tenders for two contracts for electrical equipment amounting to £23,800 in one instance, and to over…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →According to Lane Cove aldermen. the Royal Automobile Club does not know dangerous corner when it sees one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Declaring that council had diverted stormwater across hit land In Duncis-street. Lane Cove, a ratepayer wrote council, giving them 28 days…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The methods of barbers came in for critcism at Canterbury Council last night when the Board of Health notified that the new ordinance giving…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A number of important matters, including the proposed extension of Elizabeth-street, will be discussed at a special meeting of the City Council…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Woollahara Council wants the tramway span-pole at the corner of Ocean and Oxford streets removed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Proportional representation does not find much favor so far as city aldermen are concerned. The Health and By-laws Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The question whether the Railway Department or the municipality concerned should bear the cost of repairing and enlarging overhead bridges was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →This was a preliminary sitting with respect to appeals against the unimproved capital value and the assessed annual value assessments in the City of Sydney by the City…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Red. Blue. Green. Orange, elephant's breath, tomato,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hornsby Shire is in troubel concerning railway bridges at Pennant Hill and Epping both of which are in disrepair unsafe and dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Mayor of Woollahra (Alderman W. F. Foster), in a minute which was adopted at the meeting of the council last evening, recommended that the special committee…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →When the City Council Health Committee yesterday discussed the scale of charges for tennis, to be played on the council's courts in the various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An unsuccessful attempt was made during the week-end to blow open the Randwick Municipal Council's strongroom. The safeblowers used gelignite. but only succeeded in badly damaging the lock mechanism, the door failing to open…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After a two and a half hours' debate in General Purposes' Gommuttee and in council, last night, aldermen of the city did [?] except throw out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"It doesn't matter what a Mayor tries to do, someone is always picking at it thinking that there is a motive behind it."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The list of valuations of the Shire of Tintenbar has been received from the ValuerGeneral's Department. The total unimproved value is £1,880,401, representing an increase…
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