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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1925

4,897 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 245

"No Strikes" Council's Electricity Labor and Control

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 8

Labor aldermen stated to-day that a very important fact not yet mentioned in the present controversy over the generation of electricity la that…

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Unionists Defend the Union Paper Labor Council Attacked

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 6

After disposing of the specific business for which it was called in the Trades Hall yesterday afternoon, a meeting of members of…

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Recreation on Sundays Sport on Council's Parka Labor Party Approves

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 4

A move is being made by the Labor section of the City Council to throw open on Sundays all tennis courts and children's…

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Coal for City Council Will a Mine Be Acquired? What Experts Say

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 5

"A big electricity supply undertaking the generating of its own electricity should either own its own coal property, or come to some arrangement…

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Labor's Big Gun Those Who Would Spike It Trades Council Treachery Birthday Party in Domain

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 5

UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP of Alderman Bates, of Paddington, another enthusiastic Labor rally was conducted in the Domain yesterday. BY THE ORATORY of Messrs. George Smith, Donald Grant,…

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Roads Again Hurstville Council Scheme

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 8

At last it would seem Feather Ward of Hurstville Council, is to [?] into its own. Repeatedly there have been…

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The Council "Black" Union Proposition

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 5

The must important business of the meeting of the New South Wales branch of the Postla Linemen's Union, in February, will be the consideration…

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The Lord Mayor at Goulburn Attends the Highland Gathering Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 5

The 26th annual gathering of the Goulburn Highland Society was held on the Showground to-day in ideal weather, and was stupendous…

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Pink or Red? Council's Modest Recording

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 6

Alderman Lawson, of the Windsor Council, who is also an official of the Sydney Branch of the A.M.I.E.U., proposed at the last council meeting that…

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Rule to Win Council Helpful Women Lend Block of Land

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 7

The secretary, Mr. C. E. Russell, J.P., "Cluslum," Claremont St., Campsie, reports: --The Rule to Win Council of Women…

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Who Will Boss? Light and Power the City Council Wants Control

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 5

THAT five years' notice be given forthwith of the cancellation of the contract with the Railway Commissioners for the supply of…

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Railway Gates Appeal to Privy Council Judgment Reserved London. Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 9

The Privy Council has reserved judgment in the suit of the N.S.W. Attorney-General and William McGrath versus the New South Wales…

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City Traffic. Removal of Trams. Conference Proposals. to Be Considered by Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 8

A special meeting of the City Council to-morrow night will consider recommendations from a traffic conference held, at the request of the ex-Lard Mayor,…

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Labor Council Comics Its Vaudevillian Somersault Mr. Garden Is "For" and "Against" "Labor Daily" "Things Are Not What They Seem"--mr. Garden

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 1

THE WAYS OF THE LABOR COUNCIL, like those of the Heathen Chinee, are--we put it mildly--peculiar. Once it was for us: then against us; now it is BOTH FOR AND AGAINST US! For mental acrobatics nothing…

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Alderman A. H. Fletcher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1925 · page 14

Telegraphic advice received in Sydney yesterday stated that the condition of Alderman A. H. Flecher, of Armidale, who was severely: injured through being thrown from a bicycle…

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Martin Place Deputation to Mayor

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1925 · page 5

A deputation, organised by the Martin Place Extension Committee has arranged to wait upon the Lord Mayor (Aid. Stokes at to-day at 11.30 a.m. to…

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On Olympic Council

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1925 · page 1

Mr. James Taylor, president of the Australian Amateur Swimming Union, and who was at the last Olympic Games with the Australian team, has received word that the…

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Scottish Shire Line. Argyllshire for Australia

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 28 January 1925 · page 4

On another visit lo Australia, the Scottish Shire steamer Argyllshire is scheduled to sail from Liverpool on February 7. She will discharge West…

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Coalminers' Council. Annual Meeting

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 28 January 1925 · page 15

The Federal Council of the Miners Federation met at Sydney yesterday afternoon for its annual conference. Mr.Rees (General President) was in the chair…

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MARTIN-PLACE "We Must Be Satisfied" Lord Mayor's Stand

The Sun · Wednesday 28 January 1925 · page 15

A large deputation--almost a demonstration--crowded into the Lord Mayor's room at the Town Hall to-day, and urged him to see…

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