Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Council & local affairs, all years

Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1925

4,897 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 245

After Banking Hours Alderman Cashes Cheques Civic Inquiry Continues

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 5

A new phase of the inquiry into the charges of corruption associated with the City Council's electrical cartage contract for 1923 was…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

No Retreat Electric Problem Lord Mayor Emphatic

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 9

In a reply to the Railway [?] letter on the questioned of the erection of a near [?] for the extension of the…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Lord Mayor at Cooma. Visits Grammar School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 9

On Monday the Lord Mayor of Sydney paid an official visit to the Monaro Grammar School. After being shown over the buildings by the headmaster he met members of the…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

A Metal Quarry. Offered to City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 10

At the meeting of the works comnmittee of the City Council on Tuesday there was a letter from a Mr. W. J. Green, offering to the City Council a sandstone quarry at Otford,…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Barton E. Council to Take Selection Ballot

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 6

The annual meeting of Barton Federal E.C. was held in the Hurstville Council Chambers. Mr. O. H. Connell was in the chair…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

PREFERENCE. To Financial Unionists. Council Decision Illegal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 8

The city solicitor (Mr. Waldron) reported to the finance committee yesterday that the City Council resolution directing that preference of employment should be given to…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Ball's Head As Public Reserve Council Restive

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 4

The dedication of Ball's Head as a public reserve was again the subject of a great deal of debate at Tuesday night's meeting of the North Sydeny…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Seamen's Plans. Concerted Action. a Federal Maritime Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 12

The action of the Seamen's Union in obtaining control of the Sydney Maritime Transport Group, by having one of its membrs elected as group secretary, is, it has transpired, a…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Coal Contract. To City Council. May Be Referred to Royal Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 8

According to statements made at the Town Hall yesterday the Civic Royal Commission may be extended to enable the Commissioner to investigate…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

New Martin Place Scheme Before City Council a Wide-curved Causeway Debouching Into Queen's Square

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 1

THE City Council has before it a new scheme for the extension of Martin Place, which, it it claimed, will prove better from every point of view than the scheme which has been the subject of so much discussion…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Law Report. in Chambers. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Ralston.) Delayed Approval. Ex parte Stokes Estate, Ltd., re City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 6

An application was made on behalf of Stokes Estate, Ltd., for a rule nisi for mandamus directed to R. H. Broderick, City Surveyor, calling upon him to show cause why…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Greater Brisbane. Municipal Elections. United Party v Labour. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 10

Nominations closed yesterday for the first Greater Brisbane Council, to be elected on February 21, under the legislation passed during the last session of Parliament. For the…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Sport Ligat Alderman Tom Pauling

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 21

Tom Pauling, the ex-New Zealand Rugby foward rep., who played against New South Wales in 1896 and 1898, subsequently donning the light blue…

Continued on Trove, page 21 →

Electric Light Charges Manly and Hornsby Alderman Corrected

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

Manly and Bornaby Councils, in [?] to the "Evening News," correct a statement made by Aid, Courtenay, of the City Council,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Kogarah Council

The Propeller · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

At the last meeting of Kogarah Council it was decided to carry out certain suggestions by the engineer for the completion of Carlton Crescent,…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Hurstville Council

The Propeller · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

At its last meeting Hurstville Council decided to co-operate with Mr. Huie[?] the matter of rating on the unimproved capital value for water and sewerage. It…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

"Why Blame Me?" Liverpool Alderman's Outburst Talk of the Bludgeon

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

Liverpool aldermen were discussing the clerk's report. To be precise, they were defining the "town improvement area."…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Alderman Cheetham Candidate for Election On Water and Sewerage Board

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

Alderman Cheetham, of the Auburn Council, will be a candidate for election on the new Water and Sewerage Board. He is receiving backing and support…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Shire Roads Damaged. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 10

The Hume Shire engineer reported at [?] meeting of the council that he had made [?] rough estimate of the damage done by the recent rains to the main and secondary roads…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →