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Council & local affairs, 1925

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Alderman Burke. Position in Labour Party

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 16

It is probable that Alderman M. Burke, formerly chairman of the City Council Labour party, will have to make a report to the A.L.P. executive regarding the findings of…

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Lord Mayor. Departmental Welcome

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 14

The Town Clerk (Mr. Layton), heads of departments, and a number of officers of the Council, met the Lord Mayor on his arrival at the Town Hall yesterday. Mr. Layton, on…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 10

A special meeting of the City Council will be held next Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of electing the various standing committees. Another matter to be dealt with…

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Council of Churches

The Methodist · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 1

IT has already been intimated that it is hoped to bring the Council of Churches in New South Wales into active and efficient operation very early in the New Year. That there should have been…

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Greater Sydney Labor's Forward Policy Lord Mayor's Programme

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 5

Outstanding in importance in the reorganisation of the Town Hall Departments in the City Council is the necessity for a thorough…

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Lord Mayor Acts Two Appointments City Engineer's Department

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 6

As a matter of urgency, due to the resignation of Mr. Weekes, and to enable the work of the City Engineer's Department to be carried out to the…

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"Cannot Interfere" Reply to Mr. Oakes Lord Mayor on Burke

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

"I cannot interfere with those administering justice." This was the only comment the Lord Mayor (Alderman P. V. Stokes)…

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Labor Takes Office in City Council

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

Labor assumed office at the Town Hall yesterday, when Ald. P. V. Stokes installed himself as Lord Mayor. All day long he was inundated with…

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FOR 42 YEARS In Bathurst Council BATHURST

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 1

Forty-two years' con[?] alderman of the Bathurst [?] Council is the unique [?] Mr. Edmund Webb, the…

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New Year Address to Sydney's Lord Mayor Goings--Going--Where ? See That Citizens Are Not Auctioned

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 3

ACTIVE in Sydney's civic affairs to-day is that well known instrument of clean government, Mr. Dan Green. How he has purified Labour is a story that should be told in the schoolbooks. Idealist and…

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New States Are Not Favored County Council Scheme Likely What Will the Commission Recommend?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 11

Although the Royal Commission on New States has not yet reached a conclusion, it is fully expected in political circles that the recommendation will be against the creation of any New States at present or in…

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New Lord Mayor Makes Two Appointments

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 3

The new Lord Mayor, Alderman Stokes, yesterday made his first appointments—those of Mr. E. W. Coulsen as acting City Engineer at a…

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Lord Mayor Acts Following "Truth" Cleaning the City

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 15

IT is quite an easy matter to see merit in the first administrative step taken by Labor's now Lord Mayor, as it was…

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Newcastle Council Interest in Election NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 5

The interest taken in the three vacancies in the Newcastle City Council is indicated by the number of candidates. They are Thomas…

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No Liability But Motorists' Money Taken City Council's Way

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 2

Are you one of the band of Moore Park golfers who leave their cars in the City Council's parking space there, and pay a shilling for the…

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Contractor Opposes City Council's American Methods No Place for Honest Men Contractor Carr's Statement to "Truth" Now Will the Government Grant Commission? Says He Quit the City Because of the American Methods Allowed by Council

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 1

A STATEMENT made by W. B. Carr, consulting engineer and road contractor of the firm of E. and W. B. Carr, to "Troth's'" Melbourne representative is so serious ami so damning that the Government should not want any further proof of the necessity for greating a full and public inquiry into the whole ramifications of civic administration. I HAVE dismantled my Sydney plant and cut out of the city, for I am not prepared to follow American methods of obtaining…

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A Fine Point Lord Mayor's Toast

Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 1

A FINE point in etiquetic was take by the Lord Mayor at his first official reception which was held to-day…

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Donald Grant Reply to Bryant Alderman Burke and L.w.w

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

I HAVE no desire [?] controversy concerning Alderman Burke and the Communist Party," said Mr. Donald…

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City Council New Committees

Evening News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

THE Municipal Labor Party will meet in caucus to-night. when the constitution of the general standing committees for the year will be…

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Two Appointments City Council Staff

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4

Two important temporary appoinment were made by the Lord Mayor[?] on Saturday when Mr. E.W Coulsm was made acting [?]…

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