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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1925

4,897 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 245

Unions Emphatic Break with Labor Council

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

The Trolly, Draymen and Motor Drivers' Union of New South Wales and the Tramway Union have definitely sided with the "Labor…

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Main. Roads. City Tax. Protest by Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 16

The City Council last night unanimously agreed to make an emphatic protest to the State Government against the imposition of a contribution of [?]d in the…

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Reclaiming Park Land Council and Harbor Trust

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 11

At the instance of Alderman Byrne Drummoyne Council decided last night to make application to the Harbor Trust for the reclamation of the…

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Ten Days Left Council Must Decide MARTIN-PLACE

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 9

"The City Council has got until the end of this month to decide definitely, one way or the other, what it intends to do in connection with the…

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Petersham's Tar Council Displeased Rejects the Old Firm

Evening News · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 8

Many complaints having been received regarding the quality of tar supplied by the Australian Gas Light Company, Patersham…

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Wiped Out Old Council Regulations Parks for Carnivals

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

Two objectionable resolutions passed by the late City Council, one preventing the use of parks for the purpose of carnivals and galas, and the other…

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Building Repairs. Council's Powers. Injunction to Be Sought

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 11

The Question whether an insurance company can carry out reinstatement work to the interior of a building that had been damaged by fire, without the approval of…

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Preference to Unionists. Decision of Sydney City Council

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 18

At a meeting of the Sydney City Council held last night a motion was carried that preference of employment in the services of the Council be given to financial…

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Council Doings Waterloo Tip "Menace to Health" Hospital's Complaint

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 11

At last night's meeting of the Waterloo Council a letter was received from the Royal South Sydney Hospital complaining about a…

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Labour Policy. City Council. Use of Parks. Union Preference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 16

Effect was given by resolution to several points in the policy of the Municipal Labour party at a meeting of the City Council last night…

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Preference to Unionists City Council's Resolution Civic Reform's Defeat

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 5

"The people represented by Civic Reform aldermen do not enter into the spirit of the preference Act relating to sailors and solders. Even the…

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The "Labor Daily." Why Labor Council Declared it Black

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 8

The N.S.W. Labor Council has issued a statement in justification of its action in declaring the "Labor Daily" black. The statement, which is signed by Messrs. J…

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A Clash Over Control The Electricity Supply Committee to Be Appointed Lord Mayor Fights for City's Rights

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 9

The battle between the Government and the Lord Mayor over the city's electrical supply developed another phase yesterday…

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Caucus Calls Upon All Labor Supporters "Get Behind the Paper" Labor Council Repudiated

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

At a unanimous and enthusiastic meeting of the Parliamentary Labor Party yesterday, the Labor Council was condemned for its…

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Labor Has Its Way Lively City Council Meeting Unionists to Be Given Preference

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 2

The gallery crowded, all seats in the chamber occupied, and the overflow lined up in the corridors; Labor aldermen attacking Reformers, and the…

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Rifle Shooting A.N.A. Cup Meeting N.R.A. Council Election: Notes and Gossip

Referee · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 9

RIFLEMEN in the metropolitan area are now concentrating their attention on the A.N.A. Cup meeting, to take place at the Long Bay range on…

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Rose Bay Municipality Minister Rejects Petition

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 11

The scheme for the formation of a new municipality at Rose Bay, out of territory taken from both Waverley and Woollahra Councils, has been…

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Reinstated Municipal Officer Public Health Matters

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 4

"That having considered the health inspector's explanation, this council is of the opinion that he did not fully comprehend his duty…

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The Library History, Memories, Post-War Troubles, and a World of Little Lives "The Story of Port Harking, Cronulla, and Sutherland Shire," by Frank Cridiand. "Memoirs of Sir George Richard Greaces," written by himself "Ten Years After," by Sir Philip Gibbs. "The Great Little Insect" by Evelyn Chee[?]man

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 18

MR. FRANK CHIDLAND is too modest. He declares in his preface to his little volume relating "The Story of Port, Hacking, Gronulla, and Sutherland Shire" (Angus and Robertson, Sydney) that…

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"Don't Bang at Me" Mayor Annoys Alderman

The Sun · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 3

Ryde Council last night was considering the matter of a car for the council's engineer, Mr. T. Douglass Cameron…

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